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assignee
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n 1: (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g.,
someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
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bootee
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n 1: a slipper that is soft and wool (for babies) [syn:
bootee, bootie]
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briny
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adj 1: slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of
seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the
briny deep" [syn: brackish, briny]
n 1: any very large body of (salt) water [syn: main, briny]
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consignee
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n 1: the person to whom merchandise is delivered over
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curie
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n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a
radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of
37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie,
Ci]
2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
Curie, Pierre Curie]
3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one
(with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame
Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
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detainee
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n 1: some held in custody [syn: detainee, political
detainee]
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examinee
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n 1: someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an
academic examination) [syn: testee, examinee]
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internee
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n 1: a person who is interned; "the internees were enemy aliens
and suspected terrorists"
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jinni
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n 1: (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and
believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence
mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals [syn:
genie, jinni, jinnee, djinni, djinny, djinn]
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lessee
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n 1: a tenant who holds a lease [syn: leaseholder, lessee]
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nominee
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n 1: a politician who is running for public office [syn:
campaigner, candidate, nominee]
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payee
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n 1: a person to whom money is paid
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shiny
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adj 1: reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the
horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the
moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet";
"shining white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy,
lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining]
2: having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed
doughnuts" [syn: glazed, shiny] [ant: unglazed]
3: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a
sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished
brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in
lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny
black patents" [syn: bright, burnished, lustrous,
shining, shiny]
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thirty
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adj 1: being ten more than twenty [syn: thirty, 30, xxx]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
[syn: thirty, 30, XXX]
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trainee
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n 1: someone who is being trained
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weighty
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adj 1: having relatively great weight; heavy; "a weighty load";
"a weighty package" [ant: weightless]
2: powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling
presentation"; "a weighty argument" [syn: cogent,
telling, weighty]
3: of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious
thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in
a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of
state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace
conference" [syn: grave, grievous, heavy, weighty]
4: weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry;
"weighty problems"
5: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent, obese,
weighty, rotund]
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whitey
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n 1: (slang) offensive names for a White man [syn: whitey,
honky, honkey, honkie]
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whoopee
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n 1: noisy and boisterous revelry
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shawnee
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n 1: a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the
Tennessee river
2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee
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bailee
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n 1: the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is
delivered
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drawee
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n 1: the person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or
draft when it is presented for payment
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pawnee
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n 1: a member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska
and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma
2: the Caddoan language spoken by the Pawnee
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pledgee
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n 1: someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom
something is deposited as a pledge
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ranee
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n 1: (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a
raja [syn: rani, ranee]
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guarani
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n 1: the basic unit of money in Paraguay; equal to 100 centimos
2: a member of the South American people living in Paraguay and
Bolivia
3: the language spoken by the Guarani of Paraguay and Bolivia
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donee
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n 1: the recipient of funds or other benefits [syn:
beneficiary, donee]
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abandonee
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returnee
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yippee
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sui
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