bear
accept
assume
take over
self-offence
at the disposal of
on one's own account
outgoing
ex proprio motu
avowry
on one's own hook
charge per unit
for one's own hand
charge off
rate
go Dutch
off one's own bat
advantage
pay the piper
thoil
own
mero motu
spareness
stand
consumptiveness
defray
hard-earned
on one's ones
provident
trouser
abstraction
carry
what's it to you
recoup
cost-conscious
expenditure
reimburse
on someone's dime
self-deprivation
mind your own beeswax
club
voluntarily
budgetwise
enstasis
appendment
payment
write off
non-cash expense
defrayment
sumptuary
adopt
well
defrayal
ownness
yourself
advantageously
have
out of pocket
skittle
autocitation
accrual
price
foot the bill
autoconsumption
pay someone's way
leisurely
aught
at leisure
supplemental
freely
scattergood
good fences make good neighbors
hide
blow
operating cost
reimbursement
revenual
overpayment
all one's eggs in one basket
value
discretion
profusion
self-sacrifice
repayer
economic value
fleece
settle
step forward
who pays the piper calls the tune
foot
ante
take
remuneration
rod for one's back
neve
provident
cost-conscious
sumptuary
supplemental
out of pocket
revenual
ex proprio motu
mero motu
voluntarily
budgetwise
well
advantageously
leisurely
at leisure
freely
self-offence
outgoing
avowry
charge per unit
rate
spareness
consumptiveness
hard-earned
abstraction
expenditure
self-deprivation
club
enstasis
appendment
payment
non-cash expense
defrayment
defrayal
ownness
autocitation
accrual
autoconsumption
scattergood
hide
operating cost
reimbursement
overpayment
all one's eggs in one basket
value
discretion
profusion
self-sacrifice
repayer
economic value
ante
remuneration
rod for one's back
neve
bear
accept
assume
take over
charge off
go Dutch
advantage
pay the piper
thoil
own
stand
defray
trouser
carry
recoup
reimburse
write off
adopt
have
skittle
price
foot the bill
pay someone's way
aught
blow
fleece
settle
step forward
foot
take
verb
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- have
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- cause to be born
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- move while holding up or supporting
- bring forth
- contain or hold; have within
- bring in
- have on one's person
- behave in a certain manner
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- support or hold in a certain manner
- be pregnant with
noun
verb
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- consider or hold as true
- receive willingly something given or offered
- give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
- react favorably to; consider right and proper
- admit into a group or community
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- be designed to hold or take
- receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
verb
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- occupy or take on
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- make a pretence of
- take up someone's soul into heaven
- put clothing on one's body
verb
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- do over
- take up and practice as one's own
- take up, as of debts or payments
noun
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prep_phrase
noun
- The act of avowing and justifying in one's own right the distraining of goods.
- Advowson, the right to appoint to a benefice or office.
- A form of medieval patronage in which colonial tenants, often from criminal backgrounds, were guaranteed protection by an English lord in exchange for the payment of a tax.
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
verb
- to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of
- to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
noun
- Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
- The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
- Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
- The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
- Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
verb
- To claim as one's own.
- To confess.
- To take responsibility for.
- To be very good.
- To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
- To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
- To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
- To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
- To admit; concede; acknowledge.
- To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
- To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
- To recognise; acknowledge.
adj
verb
- To cover the expense of; to pay for.
- To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
- To be valid.
- Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
- To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
- To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
- To remain without ruin or injury.
- To place in an upright or standing position.
- To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
- To appear in court.
- To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
- To be positioned to gain or lose.
- To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- To remain motionless.
- To be present, to have welled up.
- To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
- To measure when erect on the feet.
- To be a candidate (in an election).
- To act as an umpire.
- To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
- To tolerate.
- To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
- To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
noun
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- A single set, as of arms.
- The act of standing.
- A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
- A partnership.
- A defensive position or effort.
- A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
- A device to hold something upright or aloft.
- A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- Grandstand. (often in the plural)
- A type of supernatural ability from the anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, named for the fact that they appear to 'stand' next to their user.
- A location or position where one may stand.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
verb
prep_phrase
noun
- The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
- The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.
- A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
- An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems.
verb
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- To have on one's person.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- To be pregnant (with).
- To lead or guide.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
- To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To be transmitted; to travel.
- To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- To insult, to diss.
- to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- Carried interest.
- The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- The sky; cloud-drift.
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phrase
noun
- A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
- The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
- A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
- Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
- A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
- An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
- An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
- A playing card marked with such a symbol.
- A club sandwich.
- An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
verb
- To combine into a club-shaped mass.
- To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
- To hit with a club.
- To join together to form a group.
- To go to nightclubs.
- To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
- To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
- To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
- We went clubbing in Ibiza.
- To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
- To drift in a current with an anchor out.
verb
- To record (an expenditure) as an expense.
- To treat as a write-off, a total loss, especially something damaged beyond economic repair.
- To remove a portion of a debt or an amount of an account owed, counting it as a loss (as a gesture of goodwill for example).
- To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero.
- To record a notional expense such as amortization or depreciation.
- To assign a low value to (something).
verb
- To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
- To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
- To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
- To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
- To select and take or approve.
- To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
adv
- in a manner affording benefit or advantage
- (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well')
- thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form
- indicating high probability; in all likelihood
- (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully
- to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree
- favorably; with approval
- to a great extent or degree
- with great or especially intimate knowledge
- with prudence or propriety
- with skill or in a pleasing manner
- in financial comfort
- without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor
adj
adj
verb
noun
- a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
- a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
- an abundant source
- an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)
- an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps
verb
- To possess, own.
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To obtain.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- See have to.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- To cause to be.
- To be able to speak (a language).
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- To trick, to deceive.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To allow; to tolerate.
- To depict as being.
- To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To give birth to.
noun
prep_phrase
adj
adv
verb
noun
- the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- the amount of money needed to purchase something
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- the high value or worth of something
- a monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal
- cost of bribing someone
noun
- One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
- A secret room for hiding oneself or valuables; a hideaway.
- The skin of an animal.
- (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.
- A covered structure to which a pet animal can retreat, as is recommended for snakes.
- A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents.
verb
verb
- To recklessly squander.
- (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
- To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
- To flatulate or defecate.
- To produce an air current.
- To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
- To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
- To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
- (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
- To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- To be propelled by an air current.
- To sing.
- To blow from a gun.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- To make a sound as the result of being blown.
- To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- To cause the sudden destruction of.
- To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
- To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- To suddenly fail destructively.
- To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- To be very undesirable.
- To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
noun
- Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
- Cocaine.
- An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A damaging occurrence.
- Cannabis.
- A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
- An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- A bloom, state of flowering.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- A strong wind.
- The act of striking or hitting.
- A blowjob; fellatio.
- A display of anything brilliant or bright.
- Heroin.
- A chance to catch one's breath.
- A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
adj
noun
- the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
- a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed
- the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- relative darkness or lightness of a color
- (music) the relative duration of a musical note
- an ideal accepted by some individual or group
verb
noun
verb
- To con or trick (someone) out of money.
- To cover with, or as if with, wool.
- To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
noun
- A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
- Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
- The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
- Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
- An insulating wooly jacket
- Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
- Insulating skin with the wool attached
verb
- To pay (a bill).
- To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- To silence, especially by force.
- To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- To become married, or a householder.
- To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- To kill.
- To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- To become compact due to sinking.
- To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- To be established in a profession or in employment.
- To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
- To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. also used figuratively.)
- To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
verb
- To pay (a bill).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- To walk.
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
noun
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- Travel by walking.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The bottom edge of a sail.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
- The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- The globular lower domain of a protein.
- The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- Foot soldiers; infantry.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
verb
- take into one's possession
- carry out
- require (time or space)
- take somebody somewhere
- get into one's hands, take physically
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- receive willingly something given or offered
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- require as useful, just, or proper
- experience or feel or submit to
- make a film or photograph of something
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- conquer by force
- occupy or take on
- admit into a group or community
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- be a student of a certain subject
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- head into a specified direction
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- engage for service under a term of contract
- receive or obtain regularly
- buy, select
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- have sex with; archaic use
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- be designed to hold or take
- be capable of holding or containing
- develop a habit
- proceed along in a vehicle
- obtain by winning
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
noun
noun
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hydrophyte
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