contrivance
lash-up
usable
useable
tack up
available
go begging
convenience
hold
reserve
book
hire out
ready-made
throwaway
lend
hire
in one's back pocket
supply
drop-in
operable
ready
workaround
applied
utilizable
run through
serviceable
practicable
set up
jury
disposable
acting
casual
in stock
stitch up
applicatory
save
ready to hand
preserve
improvisable
handily
take
quiesce
pro tem
conveniently
in reserve
chrestomathic
protemporaneous
in service
conditioned
practicalize
interimistic
useless
for the taking
mothball
accommodate
microformal
stow
crutch
borrow
band-aid solution
by
dust off
useful
applicative
aside
on someone's hands
away
opportunely
digest
point-and-shoot
set in stone
on tap
salvage
transitional
buy in
stock
deactivate
anthropotropic
semicustomized
stock up
configure
command
rain check
seeking
switch up
provisionally
pop-up
make time
miniaturizable
find time
usable
useable
available
ready-made
drop-in
operable
ready
applied
utilizable
serviceable
practicable
jury
disposable
acting
casual
in stock
applicatory
ready to hand
improvisable
pro tem
chrestomathic
protemporaneous
conditioned
interimistic
useless
microformal
useful
applicative
point-and-shoot
transitional
anthropotropic
semicustomized
seeking
pop-up
miniaturizable
handily
conveniently
by
aside
away
opportunely
provisionally
contrivance
lash-up
throwaway
hire
supply
workaround
crutch
band-aid solution
salvage
command
rain check
tack up
go begging
convenience
hold
reserve
book
hire out
lend
run through
set up
stitch up
save
preserve
take
quiesce
supply
practicalize
mothball
accommodate
stow
borrow
dust off
digest
set in stone
buy in
stock
deactivate
stock up
configure
switch up
make time
find time
noun
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- the act of devising something
verb
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- organize or be responsible for
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- contain or hold; have within
- have room for; hold without crowding
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- support or hold in a certain manner
- be valid, applicable, or true
- assert or affirm
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- protect against a challenge or attack
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- hold the attention of
- remain committed to
- resist or confront with resistance
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- stop dealing with
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- keep from departing
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- aim, point, or direct
- declare to be
- be in accord; be in agreement
- keep from exhaling or expelling
noun
- the act of grasping
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- time during which some action is awaited
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- a stronghold
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
verb
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance
noun
- formality and propriety of manner
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
- (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions
- a district that is reserved for particular purpose
- armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency
- the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
verb
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- engage for a performance
- record a charge in a police register
- register in a hotel booker
noun
- a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
- physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
- a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone
- a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
- a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
- a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game
- a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made
- a major division of a long written composition
- a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge
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
adj
- made suitable and available for immediate use
- (of especially money) immediately available
- mentally disposed
- apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
adj
verb
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
noun
noun
- A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows a user to continue working until a better solution can be provided.
- An impromptu and temporary response to an unforeseen problem or risk.
- A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially an obstacle consisting of constraints, or laws or regulations.
verb
- To use completely, in a short space of time. Usually money.
- To repeat something.
- To summarise briefly.
- Of a waterway, to flow through an area.
- To go through hastily.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, through.
- To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword.
- To fuck.
- To inform or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry
- To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system.
verb
- To ready something for use.
- To ready for use.
- To trick someone in order to make them do something.
- To cause to happen.
- To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
- To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- To arrange logically.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- To establish someone in a business or position.
- To gel or harden.
- To trap or ensnare.
- To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
adj
adj
verb
noun
adj
- Designed for informal or everyday use.
- Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
- Happening or coming to pass without design.
- Informal; relaxed.
- Employed irregularly.
- Happening by chance.
- Careless.
noun
- A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
- A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
- A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
- A player of casual games.
- Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.
- A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).
- One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
verb
- To complete arrangements for (a situation), especially clandestinely or prematurely and for one's own benefit.
- To join or close by sewing.
- To prank, trick, or deceive (a person), whether or not malice is intended.
- To fabricate (e.g. a legal case).
- To maliciously or dishonestly incriminate someone; to set up (in the sense trap or ensnare)
verb
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- bring into safety
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- accumulate money for future use
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from sins
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- retain rights to
- record data on a computer
noun
verb
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- prevent (food) from rotting
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing
noun
verb
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
prep_phrase
adj
verb
prep_phrase
verb
- To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
- To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
- To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
- To provide housing for.
- To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
- To give consideration to; to allow for.
- To contain comfortably; to have space for.
- To provide sufficient space for
- To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
- To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
- To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.
adj
- Having a miniaturized form.
- Pertaining to the internal structure of a single phrase.
- Involving substances in which extremely small volumes are involved (such as antibiotics, antibodies or viruses).
- "Thickened" using formal canonical relations between the cotangent bundles of smooth manifolds.
- Involving structure on a localized, small scale.
- Pertaining to the characteristics and patterns of lines or phrases, as opposed to the structure of the entire work.
verb
- To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To lend.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- To adopt a word from another language.
- To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
noun
adv
- in reserve; not for immediate use
- from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
- from one's possession
- out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)
- out of existence
- at a distance in space or time
- indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily
- so as to be removed or gotten rid of
- freely or at will
- in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping)
- in a different direction
adj
adj
verb
- To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
- To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
- To undergo digestion.
- To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
- To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
- To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
noun
- Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
- That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
- A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
- The result of applying a hash function to a message.
noun
- Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
- The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
- The money from the sale of rescued goods.
- Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
- The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
- The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
- The compensation paid to the rescuers.
verb
verb
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- equip with a stock
- supply with fish
- supply with livestock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
noun
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- a supply of something available for future use
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- an ornamental white cravat
- any animals kept for use or profit
adj
noun
- availability for use
- an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- a military unit or region under the control of a single officer
- the power or authority to command
- a position of highest authority
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
verb
noun
- to provide a sold-out item or temporarily unavailable service at a later date for the running (usually special) price.
- to make good on any experience that the customer deems unsatisfactory.
- A reissue, at no extra charge, of a ticket for a baseball game or other outdoor event postponed or interrupted because of rain.
- In social interactions, a deferred invitation, or deferred acceptance of an invitation.
adj
- Operating or existing for a brief period only; temporary.
- Opening out to form a three-dimensional structure when the page of a book is opened.
- Coming into view suddenly from a concealed position.
- Employing the cold launch technique.
noun
- A folded paper element which pops up from a book, greeting card, etc.
- A pop-up ball: a ball that has been hit to a considerable height above the infield or the shallow outfield; a pop fly.
- A business that quickly pops up, such as a temporary restaurant.
- A pop-up advertisement; an advertisement that is triggered to appear on a computer screen when an Internet user accesses a particular web page.
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