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noun
- (business, stock market) Initialism of reverse takeover.
- Initialism of road traffic officer.
- (business) Initialism of return to office: an order to lessen the degree of, or cease, working from home.
- (data recovery) Initialism of recovery time objective.
- (aviation) Initialism of rejected takeoff.
- Initialism of rent-to-own.
- Initialism of retransmission timeout.
- (military) Initialism of radiotelephone operator.
noun
- (by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
- A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
- A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
- (US, historical) Of Native Americans, a blow against an enemy delivered in a way that demonstrates bravery.
- (bridge) One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
- A coup d'état.
- a brilliant and notable success
- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
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- (Philippines) Abbreviation of region, in the sense of the regions of the Philippines.
- Symbol for reverse (“gear setting”).
- (baseball, cricket) Abbreviation of run(s); the statistic reporting the number of runs scored by a player.
- (law) The Crown, the government of a monarchy.
- (US politics) Abbreviation of Republican, especially preceding the constituent location.
- (chess) Abbreviation of rook.
- (geometry) Symbol for radius.
- (especially in university catalogs) Abbreviation of Thursday.
- (monarchy) Abbreviation of Rex (“King”) or Regina (“Queen”), the initial by which a British monarch signs documents after his or her name.
- (handbells) Abbreviation of ring.
- the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air
- (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143 joules per kelvin per mole
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adj
noun
- An instance of reversing.
- A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.
- (card games) A rule in Tycoon where a three of a particular suit (most commonly spades) can beat a single joker. During revolution, most rulesets instead use a two of that suit to do this.
- A change to an opposite direction.
- The state of being reversed.
- a change from one state to the opposite state
- the act of reversing the order or place of
- turning in an opposite direction or position
- turning in the opposite direction
- a decision to reverse an earlier decision
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside
- a major change in attitude or principle or point of view
verb
noun
- The profiting from an attempted hostile takeover by forcing the target company to buy back the hostile bidder's shares at an inflated price.
- (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business
adj
- (not comparable) Being or relating to a hostile takeover.
- Aggressive; antagonistic.
- Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
- Unwilling.
- very unfavorable to life or growth
- impossible to bring into friendly accord
- unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)
- characterized by enmity or ill will
- not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally
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verb
- (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
- (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
- (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- (sociology) To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
- (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
- make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- reuse (materials from waste products)
- claim back
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- (transitive) (business) To oust (someone, especially shareholders).
- (transitive) (sports) To force (a competitor) out of one of a limited number of winning positions by taking over that position or a higher one.
- (transitive) To obtain (a difficult victory) in a competition.
- (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see squeeze, out.
- make by laborious and precarious means
- cause to come out in a squirt
- extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing
- to press or force out
- obtain with difficulty
- form or shape by forcing through an opening
noun
- (business) Any strategy designed to produce negative results for an entity carrying out a takeover.
- (politics) A provision in a bill that leads to potential supporters opposing it instead.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see poison, pill.
- the target company defends itself by making its stock less attractive to an acquirer
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- (transitive, also religion) To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g., a saint, or an idol.
- (transitive) To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.
- regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
- love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol
verb
- (transitive) To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
- (transitive) To liberate by payment of a ransom.
- (transitive) To repair, restore.
- (transitive) To set free by force.
- (transitive) To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something.
- (transitive) To save, rescue.
- (transitive) To reform, change (for the better).
- (transitive) To expiate, atone (for).
- (transitive) To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
- (transitive, finance) To convert (some bond or security) into cash.
- (transitive) To clear, release from debt or blame.
- exchange or buy back for money; under threat
- convert into cash; of commercial papers
- to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange
- restore the honor or worth of
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
- save from sins
verb
- (transitive) To put into an opposing position; to reverse.
- (transitive, colloquial) To process; to complete work on (something), especially with a view to sending it on in a finished state.
- (intransitive) To change one's opinion or attitude (especially when becoming hostile etc.).
- (intransitive) To turn so as to be facing in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To make (a ship, airplane etc.) ready for departure.
- (intransitive) To revolve or rotate around a centre.
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- (politics, derogatory) A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
- (accounting, often attributive) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
- (dance) A contra dance.
- (music, informal) Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
- (business) A deal to swap goods or services.
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- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
adj
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Short.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
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- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- An end or conclusion.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
- (law, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
- (transitive) To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
- (ambitransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.
- (transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
- (intransitive, of a body of water) To undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
- cause the downfall of; of rulers
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cancel officially
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- rule against
- change radically
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- (transitive, finance) To undo something.
- (transitive, finance) To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
- (transitive, programming, software compilation) Synonym of unroll (“replace a loop with a sequence”).
- (transitive) To separate (something that is wound up)
- (transitive, figurative) To unravel or explain.
- (transitive, programming) To navigate back through (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
- (intransitive) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress
- reverse the winding or twisting of
- separate the tangles of
- cause to feel relaxed
- become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
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- (transitive) To overtake.
- (transitive) To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
- (intransitive) To progress.
- (transitive, military) To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.
- (transitive, chiefly British, law) To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
- to vault
- progress by large jumps instead of small increments
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- (chiefly British, law, usually attributive) The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
- (games) A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until they reach the front of the line, whereupon they also bend over. The process is then repeated.
- a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over
- advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors
noun
- (business) An individual or corporation that intends to acquire another company in order to avert a hostile takeover.
- (figurative, derogatory) Someone who unnecessarily defends someone else.
- (informal, derogatory, Internet) A man who defends a woman in debate etc. in an attempt to gain her favour.
- A mushroom of species Tricholoma album.
- (fiction) A hero, savior, or righteous individual.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, knight.
- a company that is a friendly acquirer in a takeover
verb
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- (business) A hostile takeover effort in which one firm offers to buy the other firm at a share price too high to refuse.
- (wrestling) A hold with the arms around the opponent.
- Any especially large, tight or enthusiastic hug, usually friendly and especially given by a male.
- a takeover bid so attractive that the directors of the target company must approve it or risk shareholder protest
- a wrestling hold with arms locked tightly around the opponent
noun
- A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
- An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
- The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
- a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
verb
- (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To place out of line.
- (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- make up for
- create an offset in
- cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface
- compensate for or counterbalance
- produce by offset printing
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- (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
- (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- (printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a natural consequence of development
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- a compensating equivalent
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
verb
- (transitive) To reverse (a change).
- (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
- (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- (intransitive, Islam) To convert to Islam.
- (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- (intransitive, originally India, now global) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
- (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y=a+bx+cx²+⋯, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
- (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
- go back to a previous state
- undergo reversion, as in a mutation
noun
- (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- One who, or that which, reverts.
noun
- An act or instance of retracting.
- A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error.
- (mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
- a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
- the act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back
noun
- (computing) Abbreviation of reverse engineering.
- Abbreviation of rare earth.
- Abbreviation of real estate.
- Abbreviation of renewable energy.
- (computing theory, computational complexity theory) Abbreviation of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a 'yes' answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time.
- (computing, countable) Abbreviation of run-time environment.
- Abbreviation of religious education.
- (biochemistry, genetics) Initialism of response element.
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- (by extension) a situation in which the ownership of something changes frequently.
- (games) A children's game in which a parcel having many layers of packaging is passed from person to person around a ring while music plays, the person holding the parcel when the music is temporarily stopped being allowed to remove a single layer, and the person removing the innermost layer winning the prize contained within; in a variation of the game, there is a prize under each layer that is awarded to the person removing that layer.
verb
- (transitive) To transform, especially into a reversed or opposite form.
- (transitive, electronics) To reverse the direction of (a current).
- (transitive, finance) To commute; to change one kind of payment into another, especially to convert from several installments to a single lumpsum payment.
- (transitive, law) To remove or reduce the legal obligations or restrictions on
- (intransitive, mathematics) To commute; to be invariant under a reversal of the positions of operands.
- (transitive, electronics) To convert from being or using an alternating current into being or using a direct current.
- reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current
noun
- (business, stock market) Initialism of reverse takeover.
- Initialism of road traffic officer.
- (business) Initialism of return to office: an order to lessen the degree of, or cease, working from home.
- (data recovery) Initialism of recovery time objective.
- (aviation) Initialism of rejected takeoff.
- Initialism of rent-to-own.
- Initialism of retransmission timeout.
- (military) Initialism of radiotelephone operator.
noun
- (by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
- A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
- A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
- (US, historical) Of Native Americans, a blow against an enemy delivered in a way that demonstrates bravery.
- (bridge) One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
- A coup d'état.
- a brilliant and notable success
- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
verb
adj
noun
- An instance of reversing.
- A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.
- (card games) A rule in Tycoon where a three of a particular suit (most commonly spades) can beat a single joker. During revolution, most rulesets instead use a two of that suit to do this.
- A change to an opposite direction.
- The state of being reversed.
- a change from one state to the opposite state
- the act of reversing the order or place of
- turning in an opposite direction or position
- turning in the opposite direction
- a decision to reverse an earlier decision
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside
- a major change in attitude or principle or point of view
noun
- (business) Any strategy designed to produce negative results for an entity carrying out a takeover.
- (politics) A provision in a bill that leads to potential supporters opposing it instead.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see poison, pill.
- the target company defends itself by making its stock less attractive to an acquirer
noun
verb
- (transitive, also religion) To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g., a saint, or an idol.
- (transitive) To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.
- regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
- love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol
noun
- (business) An individual or corporation that intends to acquire another company in order to avert a hostile takeover.
- (figurative, derogatory) Someone who unnecessarily defends someone else.
- (informal, derogatory, Internet) A man who defends a woman in debate etc. in an attempt to gain her favour.
- A mushroom of species Tricholoma album.
- (fiction) A hero, savior, or righteous individual.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, knight.
- a company that is a friendly acquirer in a takeover
verb
noun
- (business) A hostile takeover effort in which one firm offers to buy the other firm at a share price too high to refuse.
- (wrestling) A hold with the arms around the opponent.
- Any especially large, tight or enthusiastic hug, usually friendly and especially given by a male.
- a takeover bid so attractive that the directors of the target company must approve it or risk shareholder protest
- a wrestling hold with arms locked tightly around the opponent
noun
- A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
- An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
- The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
- a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
noun
- An act or instance of retracting.
- A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error.
- (mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
- a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
- the act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back
noun
- (computing) Abbreviation of reverse engineering.
- Abbreviation of rare earth.
- Abbreviation of real estate.
- Abbreviation of renewable energy.
- (computing theory, computational complexity theory) Abbreviation of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a 'yes' answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time.
- (computing, countable) Abbreviation of run-time environment.
- Abbreviation of religious education.
- (biochemistry, genetics) Initialism of response element.
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noun
- (by extension) a situation in which the ownership of something changes frequently.
- (games) A children's game in which a parcel having many layers of packaging is passed from person to person around a ring while music plays, the person holding the parcel when the music is temporarily stopped being allowed to remove a single layer, and the person removing the innermost layer winning the prize contained within; in a variation of the game, there is a prize under each layer that is awarded to the person removing that layer.
verb
noun
- The profiting from an attempted hostile takeover by forcing the target company to buy back the hostile bidder's shares at an inflated price.
- (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business
verb
- (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
- (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
- (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- (sociology) To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
- (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
- make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- reuse (materials from waste products)
- claim back
noun
verb
- (transitive) (business) To oust (someone, especially shareholders).
- (transitive) (sports) To force (a competitor) out of one of a limited number of winning positions by taking over that position or a higher one.
- (transitive) To obtain (a difficult victory) in a competition.
- (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see squeeze, out.
- make by laborious and precarious means
- cause to come out in a squirt
- extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing
- to press or force out
- obtain with difficulty
- form or shape by forcing through an opening
verb
- (transitive) To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
- (transitive) To liberate by payment of a ransom.
- (transitive) To repair, restore.
- (transitive) To set free by force.
- (transitive) To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something.
- (transitive) To save, rescue.
- (transitive) To reform, change (for the better).
- (transitive) To expiate, atone (for).
- (transitive) To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
- (transitive, finance) To convert (some bond or security) into cash.
- (transitive) To clear, release from debt or blame.
- exchange or buy back for money; under threat
- convert into cash; of commercial papers
- to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange
- restore the honor or worth of
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
- save from sins
verb
- (transitive) To put into an opposing position; to reverse.
- (transitive, colloquial) To process; to complete work on (something), especially with a view to sending it on in a finished state.
- (intransitive) To change one's opinion or attitude (especially when becoming hostile etc.).
- (intransitive) To turn so as to be facing in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To make (a ship, airplane etc.) ready for departure.
- (intransitive) To revolve or rotate around a centre.
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- (politics, derogatory) A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
- (accounting, often attributive) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
- (dance) A contra dance.
- (music, informal) Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
- (business) A deal to swap goods or services.
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verb
- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
adj
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Short.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
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- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- An end or conclusion.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
- (law, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
- (transitive) To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
- (ambitransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.
- (transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
- (intransitive, of a body of water) To undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
- cause the downfall of; of rulers
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cancel officially
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- rule against
- change radically
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- (transitive, finance) To undo something.
- (transitive, finance) To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
- (transitive, programming, software compilation) Synonym of unroll (“replace a loop with a sequence”).
- (transitive) To separate (something that is wound up)
- (transitive, figurative) To unravel or explain.
- (transitive, programming) To navigate back through (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
- (intransitive) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress
- reverse the winding or twisting of
- separate the tangles of
- cause to feel relaxed
- become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
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verb
- (transitive) To overtake.
- (transitive) To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
- (intransitive) To progress.
- (transitive, military) To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.
- (transitive, chiefly British, law) To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
- to vault
- progress by large jumps instead of small increments
noun
- (chiefly British, law, usually attributive) The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
- (games) A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until they reach the front of the line, whereupon they also bend over. The process is then repeated.
- a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over
- advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors
verb
- (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To place out of line.
- (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- make up for
- create an offset in
- cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface
- compensate for or counterbalance
- produce by offset printing
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- (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
- (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- (printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a natural consequence of development
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- a compensating equivalent
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
verb
- (transitive) To reverse (a change).
- (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
- (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- (intransitive, Islam) To convert to Islam.
- (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- (intransitive, originally India, now global) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
- (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y=a+bx+cx²+⋯, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
- (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
- go back to a previous state
- undergo reversion, as in a mutation
noun
- (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- One who, or that which, reverts.
verb
- (transitive) To transform, especially into a reversed or opposite form.
- (transitive, electronics) To reverse the direction of (a current).
- (transitive, finance) To commute; to change one kind of payment into another, especially to convert from several installments to a single lumpsum payment.
- (transitive, law) To remove or reduce the legal obligations or restrictions on
- (intransitive, mathematics) To commute; to be invariant under a reversal of the positions of operands.
- (transitive, electronics) To convert from being or using an alternating current into being or using a direct current.
- reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current
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- (Philippines) Abbreviation of region, in the sense of the regions of the Philippines.
- Symbol for reverse (“gear setting”).
- (baseball, cricket) Abbreviation of run(s); the statistic reporting the number of runs scored by a player.
- (law) The Crown, the government of a monarchy.
- (US politics) Abbreviation of Republican, especially preceding the constituent location.
- (chess) Abbreviation of rook.
- (geometry) Symbol for radius.
- (especially in university catalogs) Abbreviation of Thursday.
- (monarchy) Abbreviation of Rex (“King”) or Regina (“Queen”), the initial by which a British monarch signs documents after his or her name.
- (handbells) Abbreviation of ring.
- the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air
- (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143 joules per kelvin per mole
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- An instance of reversing.
- A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.
- (card games) A rule in Tycoon where a three of a particular suit (most commonly spades) can beat a single joker. During revolution, most rulesets instead use a two of that suit to do this.
- A change to an opposite direction.
- The state of being reversed.
- a change from one state to the opposite state
- the act of reversing the order or place of
- turning in an opposite direction or position
- turning in the opposite direction
- a decision to reverse an earlier decision
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside
- a major change in attitude or principle or point of view
adj
- (not comparable) Being or relating to a hostile takeover.
- Aggressive; antagonistic.
- Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
- Unwilling.
- very unfavorable to life or growth
- impossible to bring into friendly accord
- unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)
- characterized by enmity or ill will
- not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally