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beverage
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n 1: any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage
order?" [syn: beverage, drink, drinkable, potable]
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leverage
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n 1: the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to
use a lever [syn: leverage, purchase]
2: strategic advantage; power to act effectively; "relatively
small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage"
3: investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential
gains (at the risk of greater losses) [syn: leverage,
leveraging]
v 1: supplement with leverage; "leverage the money that is
already available"
2: provide with leverage; "We need to leverage this company"
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sewerage
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n 1: waste matter carried away in sewers or drains [syn:
sewage, sewerage]
2: a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water [syn:
sewer, sewerage, cloaca]
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steerage
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n 1: the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship
2: the act of steering a ship [syn: steering, steerage]
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storage
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n 1: the act of storing something
2: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the
docks" [syn: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage,
store]
3: the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials
4: (computer science) the process of storing information in a
computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk
5: an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the
central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
[syn: memory, computer memory, storage, computer
storage, store, memory board]
6: depositing in a warehouse; "they decided to reposition their
furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn"; "my car
is in storage"; "publishers reduced print runs to cut down
the cost of warehousing" [syn: repositing, reposition,
storage, warehousing]
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suffrage
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n 1: a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US
Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment;
"American women got the vote in 1920" [syn: right to
vote, vote, suffrage]
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umbrage
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n 1: a feeling of anger caused by being offended; "he took
offence at my question" [syn: umbrage, offense,
offence]
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undercarriage
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n 1: framework that serves as a support for the body of a
vehicle
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vicarage
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n 1: an official residence provided by a church for its parson
or vicar or rector [syn: parsonage, vicarage,
rectory]
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weighbridge
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n 1: platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles
and cattle etc
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cambridge
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n 1: a university in England [syn: Cambridge University,
Cambridge]
2: a city in Massachusetts just to the north of Boston; site of
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
3: a city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge
University
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beveridge
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n 1: British economist (born in India) whose report on social
insurance provided the basis for most of the social
legislation on which the welfare state in the United
Kingdom is based (1879-1963) [syn: Beveridge, William
Henry Beveridge, First Baron Beveridge]
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coleridge
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n 1: English romantic poet (1772-1834) [syn: Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge]
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harborage
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n 1: (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) [syn:
harborage, harbourage]
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seigniorage
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n 1: charged by a government for coining bullion
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stockbrokerage
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tutorage
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bainbridge
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coatbridge
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kingsbridge
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lethbridge
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loveridge
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newbridge
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berridge
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norwich
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corbridge
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delbridge
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stockbridge
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trowbridge
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mismarriage
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