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in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
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the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
company
1. n. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
2. n. A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
A company of actors.
3. n. (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battal
the boys in Company C
4. n. A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
It took six companies to put out the fire.
5. n. (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
6. n. (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.
As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.
7. n. (legal) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
8. n. (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
9. n. Social visitors or companions.
Keep the house clean; I have company coming.
10. n. Companionship.
I treasure your company.
11. v. (archaic, transitive) To accompany, keep company with.
12. v. (archaic, intransitive) To associate.
13. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
14. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
divested
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of divest
divest
1. v. To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).
You shall never divest me of my right to free speech.
When I wake up, I make a point to divest myself of all my prejudices, ready to start the day.
2. v. (transitive, finance) To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary.
In 2011 the company divested an 81% majority stake in its foreign subsidiary.
As Glasgow becomes the first university in Europe to divest from fossil fuels.
3. v. (transitive, archaic) To undress.
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
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majority
1. n. More than half (50%) of some group
The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.
Those opposing the building plans were in the majority, so the building project was canceled.
2. n. The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%.
3. n. (dated) Legal adulthood
By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice.
4. n. (UK) The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major
On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.
5. n. ancestors; ancestry.
stake
1. n. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
2. n. (croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
3. n. A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
4. n. (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
5. n. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.
6. n. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
7. n. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming t
8. n. (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
9. v. To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
to stake vines or plants
10. v. To pierce or wound with a stake.
11. v. To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
12. v. To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him.
His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
its
1. det. Belonging to it.
2. pron. The one (or ones) belonging to it.
3. n. plural of it
foreign
1. adj. Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
foreign markets; foreign soil
He liked visiting foreign cities.
2. adj. Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
foreign car; foreign word; foreign citizen; foreign trade
There are many more foreign students in Europe since the Erasmus scheme started.
3. adj. Relating to a different nation.
foreign policy; foreign navies
4. adj. Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
foreign body; foreign substance; foreign gene; foreign species
5. adj. (with to, formerly with from) Alien; strange.
It was completely foreign to their way of thinking.
6. adj. (obsolete) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
7. adj. (US, state legal) From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation.
8. adj. Belonging to a different organization, company etc.
My bank charges me $2.50 every time I use a foreign ATM.
9. adj. (obsolete) Outside, outdoors, outdoor.
10. n. A foreign person, particularly:
11. n. (now informal) A foreigner: a person from another country.
12. n. (obsolete) An outsider: a person from another place or group.
13. n. (obsolete) A non-guildmember.
14. n. (obsolete) A foreign ship.
15. n. (obsolete) clipping of, chamber foreign, : an outhouse.
16. n. A foreign area, particularly:
17. n. (now dialect) An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
18. n. (obsolete) An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court.
19. n. Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.
subsidiary
1. adj. Auxiliary or supplemental.
2. adj. Secondary or subordinate.
a subsidiary stream
3. adj. Of, or relating to a subsidy.
subsidiary payments to an ally
4. n. A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
5. n. (music) A subordinate theme.
6. n. One who aids or supplies; an assistant.

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