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dozen
1. Dutzend
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dozen
1. subst. A set of twelve.
Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
I ordered two dozen doughnuts.
There shouldn't be more than two dozen Christmas cards left to write.
Pack the shirts in dozens, please.
2. subst. (as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less
There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.
3. subst. (metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
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Dutzend
1. n-n. dozen

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Beispielsätze

It's six of one and a half dozen of another.      Ob Ali Hoca oder Hoca Ali, bleibt sich gleich. I wonder why eggs are sold by the dozen.      Ich frage mich, wieso Eier im Dutzend verkauft werden. I bought half a dozen eggs.      Ich habe ein halbes Dutzend Eier gekauft. There were a dozen suspects in the case.      Es gab ein Dutzend Verdächtige in dem Fall.

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