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adj
adv
noun
- (motor racing, horse racing) An uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.
- (food) A wrap, an item of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- A baked portion of flatbread; a baked item that is not meant to rise.
- (skiing) A section of piste that is relatively flat, causing or allowing skiers to slow down.
verb
phrase
noun
adj
- Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
- Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
- of or concerning the theory of pragmatism
- concerned with practical matters
- guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
adj
- Busy or employed.
- (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
- Greatly interested.
- (military) being attacked or attacking
- (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- (British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
- built against or attached to a wall
- having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
- pledged to be married
- involved in military hostilities
- reserved in advance
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- having services contracted for
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
prep
- Doing, involved in.
- (mathematics) Considering all members of an equivalence class the same.
- Devising, scheming (planning something mischievous or inappropriate).
- (Eton College) Taught by; in the class of.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up, to.
- Until.
- Capable, ready or equipped, having sufficient material preconditions for, possibly willpower (at a particular moment).
- As much as; no more than (also with of).
- Within the responsibility of, to be attributed to the sphere of influence of, having someone or something as authoritative in.
verb
adj
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- crowded with or characterized by much activity
- Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- Officious; meddling.
- Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
noun
verb
- keep busy with
- assume, as of positions or roles
- occupy the whole of
- be on the mind of
- require (time or space)
- consume all of one's attention or time
- march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation
- live (in a certain place)
- To live or reside in.
- To fill space.
- To hold the attention of.
- To fill or hold (an official position or role).
- (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
- (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
- To fill.
- To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
adj
intj
verb
noun
- Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.
- (slang, sometimes attributive) Something that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.)
- Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.
- Someone or something that butts.
- A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- (cooking) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
- (aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.
- a fighter who strikes the opponent with their head
- an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
verb
- To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
- (skiing, snowboarding) To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.
- (transitive) To spread butter on.
- spread butter on
noun
- A state of busy activity.
- A scam or swindle.
- (slang) An act of prostitution.
- A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
- (informal) An activity, especially to achieve a desired goal or make money.
- (prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
- (preceded by a definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).
- a rapid active commotion
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
verb
- (transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
- (informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
- (informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- (informal) To work.
- (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- (transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.
- (informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- (informal) To serve (a clientele) as a prostitute.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- cause to move furtively and hurriedly
- move or cause to move energetically or busily
- get by trying hard
- pressure or urge someone into an action
noun
- (ironic) Busy work.
- (psychiatry, education, mental health) Sensory play for children often involving an obstacle course to relieve stress while the therapist works to nurture the patient's basic life skills.
- The therapeutic practice of encouraging better quality of life through the pursuit of work or other occupations.
- therapy based on engagement in meaningful activities of daily life, especially to enable or encourage participation in such activities in spite of impairments or limitations in physical or mental functions
adj
verb
verb
noun
noun
- any workplace where people are very busy
- a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
- a hairdo resembling a beehive
- a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
- Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.
- (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
- A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
- A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.
- (cricket) A diagram showing where balls have passed the batter, used in analysis.
- (nonstandard, New Zealand) Alternative form of Beehive.
- A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.
- A particular style of hat.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- work occasionally
- invest at a risk
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- profit privately from public office and official business
- (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
noun
- the performance of a piece of work
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- the responsibility to do something
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a damaging piece of work
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- (UK, slang, law enforcement, uncountable) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (in noun compounds) A sex act.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- A task.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- (informal) A robbery or heist.
prep
- Occupied in (activity).
- In a state of.
- (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
- Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
- Present or taking place during (an event).
- Indicating action bearing upon something, especially continued or repeated action.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, especially finance and law) (also as at; before dates) On (a particular date).
- Attending (an educational institution).
- Indicates a means or method.
- Also used in various other idiomatic combinations: at a pinch, at all, at fault, at pains, at risk, at that, etc.; see the individual entries.
- Indicates a specific speed or rate that is maintained by something.
- In response or reaction to.
- In certain phrases, used to indicate the manner in which something happens or is done.
- Working for (a company) or in (a place or situation).
- In the direction of; towards; (often implied to be in a hostile or careless manner).
- (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.
- Indicating distance or direction relative to the speaker.
- Indicating time of occurrence, especially an instant of time, or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker’s perspective.
- Denotes a price.
- Subject to.
- In, near, or in the general vicinity of (a particular place).
noun
verb
verb
noun
- A frequenter.
- One who travels somewhere for recreation; a tourist or holidayer.
- A person who runs a resort
- Some or something that sorts previously sorted items.
- (law) The process by which property that was previously transferred or granted to a new owner reverts or is reclaimed by the original owner or that person's heirs.
- One who resorts, or has recourse (to something)
noun
- the usual activities in your day
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- an outburst of applause
- any circular or rotating mechanism
- the course along which communications spread
- the activity of playing 18 holes of golf
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
- a charge of ammunition for a single shot
- (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order)
- a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic)
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine; a round of beef.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- (UK) One slice of bread.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- (countable, music) A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- A circular dance.
- (nautical) A round-top.
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- (card games) The play after each deal.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
- (sports) A stage in a competition.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- (video games) A stage or level of a game.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
adj
- (of sounds) full and rich
- having the shape or form of a circle
- (mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
- Returning to its starting point.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- (architecture) Vaulted.
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Plump.
- (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Loosely or approximately circular.
- Large in magnitude.
- (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
adv
verb
- make round
- become round, plump, or shapely
- pronounce with rounded lips
- express as a round number
- wind around; move along a circular course
- attack in speech or writing
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
- (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
- (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
- (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
- (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
- (transitive, intransitive) To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up.
- (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
prep
prep_phrase
adv
adj
- (slang) Frantic; busy.
- (military, euphemistic) Relating to active warfare or the use of lethal force.^([W])
- (philosophy) Relating to the force driving life forward.
- Relating to kinesis or motor function.
- (biology) Relating to the movement of an organism in response to an external stimulus.
- Relating to motion.
- supplying motive force
- characterized by motion
- relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith
noun
adj
- Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.
- (of electrical wiring) Carrying electrical current; energized.
- Sprightly; lively; brisk.
- Susceptible, sensitive; easy to impress; having keen feelings, as opposed to apathy.
- (programming) Synonym of live.
- In a state of action; in force or operation; existent.
- Having life; living; not dead.
- (in the construction "alive to") Aware of; sensitive to.
- (intensifier) Out of all living creatures.
- (followed by ‘to’ or ‘of’) aware of
- possessing life
- having life or vigor or spirit
- (often followed by ‘with’) full of life and spirit
- in operation
- capable of erupting
- mentally perceptive and responsive
noun
adj
- Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
- Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
- of or concerning the theory of pragmatism
- concerned with practical matters
- guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
noun
- Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.
- (slang, sometimes attributive) Something that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.)
- Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.
- Someone or something that butts.
- A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- (cooking) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
- (aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.
- a fighter who strikes the opponent with their head
- an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
verb
- To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
- (skiing, snowboarding) To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.
- (transitive) To spread butter on.
- spread butter on
noun
- A state of busy activity.
- A scam or swindle.
- (slang) An act of prostitution.
- A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
- (informal) An activity, especially to achieve a desired goal or make money.
- (prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
- (preceded by a definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).
- a rapid active commotion
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
verb
- (transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
- (informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
- (informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- (informal) To work.
- (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- (transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.
- (informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- (informal) To serve (a clientele) as a prostitute.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- cause to move furtively and hurriedly
- move or cause to move energetically or busily
- get by trying hard
- pressure or urge someone into an action
noun
- (ironic) Busy work.
- (psychiatry, education, mental health) Sensory play for children often involving an obstacle course to relieve stress while the therapist works to nurture the patient's basic life skills.
- The therapeutic practice of encouraging better quality of life through the pursuit of work or other occupations.
- therapy based on engagement in meaningful activities of daily life, especially to enable or encourage participation in such activities in spite of impairments or limitations in physical or mental functions
noun
- any workplace where people are very busy
- a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
- a hairdo resembling a beehive
- a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
- Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.
- (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
- A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
- A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.
- (cricket) A diagram showing where balls have passed the batter, used in analysis.
- (nonstandard, New Zealand) Alternative form of Beehive.
- A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.
- A particular style of hat.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- A frequenter.
- One who travels somewhere for recreation; a tourist or holidayer.
- A person who runs a resort
- Some or something that sorts previously sorted items.
- (law) The process by which property that was previously transferred or granted to a new owner reverts or is reclaimed by the original owner or that person's heirs.
- One who resorts, or has recourse (to something)
noun
- the usual activities in your day
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- an outburst of applause
- any circular or rotating mechanism
- the course along which communications spread
- the activity of playing 18 holes of golf
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
- a charge of ammunition for a single shot
- (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order)
- a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic)
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine; a round of beef.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- (UK) One slice of bread.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- (countable, music) A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- A circular dance.
- (nautical) A round-top.
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- (card games) The play after each deal.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
- (sports) A stage in a competition.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- (video games) A stage or level of a game.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
adj
- (of sounds) full and rich
- having the shape or form of a circle
- (mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
- Returning to its starting point.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- (architecture) Vaulted.
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Plump.
- (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Loosely or approximately circular.
- Large in magnitude.
- (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
adv
verb
- make round
- become round, plump, or shapely
- pronounce with rounded lips
- express as a round number
- wind around; move along a circular course
- attack in speech or writing
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
- (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
- (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
- (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
- (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
- (transitive, intransitive) To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up.
- (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
prep
noun
verb
adj
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- crowded with or characterized by much activity
- Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- Officious; meddling.
- Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
noun
verb
- keep busy with
- assume, as of positions or roles
- occupy the whole of
- be on the mind of
- require (time or space)
- consume all of one's attention or time
- march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation
- live (in a certain place)
- To live or reside in.
- To fill space.
- To hold the attention of.
- To fill or hold (an official position or role).
- (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
- (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
- To fill.
- To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
verb
noun
verb
- work occasionally
- invest at a risk
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- profit privately from public office and official business
- (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
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- the performance of a piece of work
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- the responsibility to do something
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a damaging piece of work
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- (UK, slang, law enforcement, uncountable) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (in noun compounds) A sex act.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- A task.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- (informal) A robbery or heist.
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- (motor racing, horse racing) An uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.
- (food) A wrap, an item of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- A baked portion of flatbread; a baked item that is not meant to rise.
- (skiing) A section of piste that is relatively flat, causing or allowing skiers to slow down.
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- Busy or employed.
- (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
- Greatly interested.
- (military) being attacked or attacking
- (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- (British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
- built against or attached to a wall
- having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
- pledged to be married
- involved in military hostilities
- reserved in advance
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- having services contracted for
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- Doing, involved in.
- (mathematics) Considering all members of an equivalence class the same.
- Devising, scheming (planning something mischievous or inappropriate).
- (Eton College) Taught by; in the class of.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up, to.
- Until.
- Capable, ready or equipped, having sufficient material preconditions for, possibly willpower (at a particular moment).
- As much as; no more than (also with of).
- Within the responsibility of, to be attributed to the sphere of influence of, having someone or something as authoritative in.
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- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- crowded with or characterized by much activity
- Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- Officious; meddling.
- Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
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- (slang) Frantic; busy.
- (military, euphemistic) Relating to active warfare or the use of lethal force.^([W])
- (philosophy) Relating to the force driving life forward.
- Relating to kinesis or motor function.
- (biology) Relating to the movement of an organism in response to an external stimulus.
- Relating to motion.
- supplying motive force
- characterized by motion
- relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith
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- Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.
- (of electrical wiring) Carrying electrical current; energized.
- Sprightly; lively; brisk.
- Susceptible, sensitive; easy to impress; having keen feelings, as opposed to apathy.
- (programming) Synonym of live.
- In a state of action; in force or operation; existent.
- Having life; living; not dead.
- (in the construction "alive to") Aware of; sensitive to.
- (intensifier) Out of all living creatures.
- (followed by ‘to’ or ‘of’) aware of
- possessing life
- having life or vigor or spirit
- (often followed by ‘with’) full of life and spirit
- in operation
- capable of erupting
- mentally perceptive and responsive