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stand
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off-reckoning
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corn
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make ends meet
welfare
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spunk
remunerate
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place money
board wage
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end
green
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do-re-mi
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verb
- To take into account by making an allowance.
- To not bar or obstruct.
- To render physically possible.
- To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
- To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
- To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
- To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
- To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request).
noun
- A child's allowance; pocket money.
- Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
- A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
- A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
- Acknowledgment.
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
- An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose
- A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
- A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- Payment for the temporary use of something.
- A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
- The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
verb
- To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
- To accept employment.
- To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
- To accomplish by paying for services.
- To exchange the services of for remuneration.
- (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job
noun
adj
noun
noun
- An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
- The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
- The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
- Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
- Release from wardship; deliverance.
- The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
- The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
- Outward markings, fittings or appearance
- The writ by which property is obtained.
- A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
- A low grade of wool.
- A taxicab or limousine.
adj
verb
noun
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- the lower part of anything
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- lowest support of a structure
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- travel by walking
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
verb
- pay for something
- select carefully from a group
- look for and gather
- harass with constant criticism
- provoke
- remove in small bits
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- pilfer or rob
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
noun
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the act of choosing or selecting
verb
verb
- furnish money for
- convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds
- place or store up in a fund for accumulation
- provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest
- invest money in government securities
- accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability
noun
noun
noun
- Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
- A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
- A regular frequency.
- A physical base or foundation.
- In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
- An underlying condition or circumstance.
- A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
- The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
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.
adj
- Where allowance is made for a possible future event.
- Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
- Taking no action.
- Being in the passive voice.
- Not participating in management.
- Of a component: that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
- Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
- Without motive power.
noun
noun
- money.
- (countable) inflammatory disease of horse hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
- (countable) skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms
- Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
- A small, hard particle.
verb
noun
- Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
- Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
- The arithmetic mean.
- Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
- An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
- Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
- In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
verb
- To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
- Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
- To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
- To be, generally or on average.
adj
adv
- Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- Completely.
- Bluntly.
- In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
- Directly; flatly.
- Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
noun
- A flat tyre/flat tire.
- A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene. It's a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth orbackdrop.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with water).
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
- Level ground in general.
- A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
adj
- Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- Unable to emit power; dead.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Lowered by one semitone.
- Without spin; spinless.
- Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- Flattening at the ends.
- With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Exact.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- Without variations in pitch.
- Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- Having no variations in height.
- Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
verb
noun
- Money.
- A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- Result.
- The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- Death.
- The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
verb
noun
- Money.
- Islamist.
- A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
- Marijuana.
- A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
- a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- A green light used as a signal.
- The surface upon which bowls is played.
- Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- One of the three color charges for quarks.
verb
- To become or grow green in colour.
- To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
- To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
- To make (something) environmentally friendly.
- To become environmentally aware.
adj
- Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
- Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
- Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
- Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
- Inexperienced.
- Environmentally friendly.
- Having a sexual connotation.
- Overcome with envy.
- Having green as its color.
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- Having a color charge of green.
- Sickly, unwell.
- Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- High or too high in acidity.
- Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
noun
- Money.
- A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
- That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
- Any particular variety of cheese.
- In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
- Smegma.
- A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
- A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
- A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
- Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
- Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
- A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
- A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
- The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
- A fastball.
verb
- To smile excessively, as for a camera.
- To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
- To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).
- To prepare curds for making cheese.
- To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
- To stop; to refrain from.
intj
noun
noun
noun
- Money.
- The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A rand (currency unit).
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- Size.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
- A euro.
- Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
- One hundred.
- The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
- The beech tree.
- Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- One million dollars.
- The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
- Belly, breast, chest.
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- A dollar (one hundred cents).
verb
- To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
- To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- To copulate, as bucks and does.
- To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
- To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
- To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
- To fuck.
- To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- To bend; buckle.
- To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
- To swell out.
- To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
- To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
noun
- Money.
- A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
- A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
- A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
- A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
- A block of any of various dense materials.
- A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
- Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
verb
noun
- Money.
- Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.
- Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
- Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
- An instance of winning a cash prize.
- Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
adj
verb
noun
- Money.
- A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
- Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
- The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
- The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
- Leftover scraps of fabric.
- The cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
- Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.
- An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
- Used as a term of endearment.
verb
verb
noun
noun
- Money.
- The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean, or garbanzo bean).
- The clitoris.
- An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.
- A person.
- The head or brain.
- The edible seedpod of such a plant.
- The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such a a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.
- Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
verb
noun
- Money.
- A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
- Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
- Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
- Nothing, jack shit.
- A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
- Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
- The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
- A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
- Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
- The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
- A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
- The related tree Mangifera caesia.
- A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
- A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
- A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
- A sailor.
- A lumberjack.
- A pike, especially when young.
- A sepoy.
- A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
- A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
- A home run.
- A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
- A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
- A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
- Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
- Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
- The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
- Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
- A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
- A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
- A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
- A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
- A jackrabbit.
adj
verb
- To physically raise using a jack.
- To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
- To raise or increase.
- To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
- To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
- To steal something, typically an automobile.
- To jack off, to masturbate.
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