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In line 20, "men" should be amended (= changed) to "people". start learning
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make minor changes in (a text) in order to make it fairer, more accurate, or more up-to-date. to change the words of a text, especially a law or a legal document:
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His departure from his usual optimism startled his staff.; The restaurant is a departure for Fabbio who has spent his career starting software companies. start learning
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A departure from usual behavior is a change in the way you do something: a change in what is usually done or how something is usually done:
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startle; startling - ADJ. The noise of the car startled the birds and the whole flock flew up into the air. Her article on diet startled many people into changing their eating habits. start learning
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cause (a person or animal) to feel sudden shock or alarm.
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Have they assented to the terms of the contract? start learning
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express approval or agreement, typically officially.
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They've already opened/started a book on the result of the next World Cup. start learning
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the situation in which a bookmaker accepts and pays out amounts of money that are risked on a particular result:
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book verb (MAKE A RECORD) A football player who is booked twice in a game is sent off the field. My grandmother was booked for speeding last week. start learning
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If a police officer, referee, etc. books someone, they write down the person's name in an official record because they have done something wrong:
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A book is also a number of similar items fastened together inside a cover:
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Detectives booked him for resisting arrest. start learning
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to officially accuse someone of a crime:
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go by the book (also do sth by the book) My lawyer always goes strictly by the book. start learning
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to do something exactly as the rules tells you:
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There are 256 people on the books at the cement works. start learning
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employed by a company or officially belonging to an organization:
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The nurse asked if her motions were regular. start learning
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a polite way of referring to the process of getting rid of solid waste from the body, or the waste itself:
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Someone proposed a motion to increase the membership fee to $500 a year. start learning
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a formal suggestion made, discussed, and voted on at a meeting:
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He motioned me to sit down. start learning
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to make a signal to someone, usually with your hand or head:
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A motion is also a request made to a judge in court for something to happen.
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motion sickness (also mainly UK travel sickness) start learning
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a feeling of being ill, especially of needing to vomit, that some people get in a moving vehicle
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They sought to reassure people that their homes would be safe from the flood. start learning
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Legal advice should be sought before you take any further action. start learning
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to ask for advice, help, approval, permission, etc.: If you seek advice/approval/help/permission, you ask for it:
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a children's game in which a group of children hide in secret places and then one child has to go to look for them
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These people are seeking/taking refuge from persecution. The climbers slept in a mountain refuge. start learning
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(a place that gives) protection or shelter from danger, trouble, unhappiness, etc.:
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persecute; persecution - NOUN; persecutor - NOUN Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime. start learning
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to treat people unfairly or cruelly over a period of time because of their race, religion, etc.:
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kink noun [C] (TWIST/CURVE) There was a kink in the hose and the water wouldn’t come through. start learning
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an unwanted twist or bend in a wire, rope, pipe, etc. that is usually straight:
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a curved shape in hair that means that it does not hang straight down:
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kink [SORE PLACE IN A MUSCLE] US Massage is a marvelous way to work out the kinks in tense muscles. start learning
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a sore place in a muscle, especially in the neck or back:
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The system will work fine once we work out a few kinks. start learning
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kink noun (STRANGE HABIT) start learning
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a strange habit, usually of a sexual nature:
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She heard the wind whistling through the trees and the howl of a distant wolf. I stepped out of the building and immediately a bullet whistled past my head. start learning
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to make a long, high sound while moving quickly through or past something:
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The birds were whistling in the early morning quiet. start learning
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When birds whistle, they sing in high musical notes:
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dog whistle noun (POLITICS) disapproving Attacks on "political correctness" can be a dog whistle to rally white voters. start learning
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a remark, speech, advertisement, etc. by a politician that is intended to be understood by a particular group, especially one with feelings of racism or hatred, without actually expressing these feelings:
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He has an extreme hatred of taxes and tolls. start learning
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a strong feeling of dislike; hate:
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If an electrical fuse (= a short, thin piece of wire) blows, or if something electrical blows a fuse, the device it is in stops working because it is receiving too much electricity.
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blow verb (SPEND) informal When I got paid I blew it all on a night out. start learning
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to spend a large amount of money, especially on things that are not really necessary:
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The brothers almost came to blows over sharing the car. start learning
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If people come to blows, they physically fight:
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grand adjective (IMPORTANT) His job has a grand title, but he's little more than a clerk. The Palace of Versailles is very grand. They always entertain their guests in grand style. start learning
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important and large in degree: impressive and large or important:
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grand [PLACE OR BUILDING] the Grand Hotel the Grand Canyon the Grand Canal start learning
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used in the name of a place or building to show that it is large or beautiful and deserves to be admired:
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grand adjective (EXCELLENT) old-fashioned informal or Irish English We had grand weather on our holiday. My grandson is a grand little chap. You've done a grand job. start learning
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grand noun [C] (MONEY) informal (US G) John's new car cost him 20 grand! start learning
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a thousand dollars or pounds:
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grand adjective (ATTRACTIVE) A grand staircase leads to the second floor. start learning
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attractive in style and appearance:
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The craft fair raised a grand total of £550. start learning
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the complete number after everything has been added up:
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grand tour (also Grand Tour) [VISIT - EUROPE] start learning
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a visit to the most important countries and cities of Europe that rich young people made in the past as part of their education
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grand tour - often humorous [HOUSE] Let me give you a grand tour of the house. start learning
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an occasion when someone shows you round a house or other building:
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in the (grand) scheme of things In the scheme of things, having lots of money isn't as important as having friends. start learning
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a society based on equity and social justice start learning
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the quality of being fair and impartial.
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He sold his equity in the company last year. start learning
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the value of a company, divided into many equal parts owned by the shareholders, or one of the equal parts into which the value of a company is divided:
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issue/raise equity The company is planning to raise equity of £1.1 billion to fund growth plans. start learning
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the capital that a company gets from selling its shares rather than borrowing money: the value of the shares issued by a company.
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equity [PROPERTY] (US also home equity) in equity An owner with a house worth $100,000 and an $80,000 mortgage has $20,000 in equity. start learning
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the value of a property for the owner after it has been sold and any loan paid back:
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(in the US, UK, and several other countries) a trade union to which most professional actors belong.
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give way [CARS] UK (US yield) You have to give way to traffic coming from the right. start learning
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to allow other vehicles to go past before you move onto a road:
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Because of an unusually strong current, the bridge's central support gave way, tipping a coach into the river. start learning
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to break, especially when under pressure from strong forces:
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Neither of them will give way, so they could be arguing for a very long time. Don't give way to your fears. start learning
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to stop arguing or fighting against someone or something:
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tip verb (ONE SIDE HIGHER) to fall or turn over, or to cause something to fall or turn over: The table tipped, and all our drinks fell on the floor. Don't tip your chair back like that, you'll fall. start learning
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to (cause to) move so that one side is higher than another side: to lean to one side, or to cause something to lean to one side: - She tipped the umbrella to keep the sun off the picnic table.; If everyone sits on one side of the boat, it will tip (over).
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The baby tipped the scales at 3.75 kg. start learning
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tip verb (POUR) (US dump) She tipped the contents of her purse out onto the table. He tipped his breakfast cereal into a bowl. The child picked up the box and tipped the toys out all over the floor. start learning
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to pour a substance from one container into another or onto a surface:
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be tipping (it) down UK informal We won't be able to go to the beach today - it's tipping it down. start learning
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When it is tipping it down, a lot of rain is falling:
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The giraffe was killed with a spear that had been tipped with poison. start learning
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to cover the end of something pointed with a liquid, a colour, etc.:
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Davis is being tipped to win the championship. start learning
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to say that someone is likely to be successful or achieve something:
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tip verb (RUBBISH) UK (US dump) A lot of waste is being tipped into the sea. The sign by the side of the road said "No tipping". start learning
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to get rid of rubbish by putting it in a place where it should not be:
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tip noun [C] (POINTED END) We had asparagus tips for dinner. If I stand on the tips of my toes, I can just reach the top shelf. The Keys are coral islands off the southern tip of Florida. There's paint on the tip of your nose. start learning
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the usually pointed end of something, especially something that is long and thin:
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a walking cane with a metal tip the filter tip of a cigarette start learning
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a small part fitted to the end of something, especially something that is long and thin:
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tip noun [C] (RUBBISH - PLACE) (US also UK dump) We need to take this old carpet to the tip. start learning
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a place where especially large pieces of rubbish can be taken and left: informal This room is a complete/absolute/real tip (= is very untidy) - tidy it up at once.
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share/stock tips Investors should take stock tips with a pinch of salt. The shares were looking cheap and had been strongly tipped. start learning
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advice to buy or sell particular shares:
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a plant with pale green, juicy stems that are cooked and eaten as a vegetable:
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dump verb [T] (PUT DOWN IN CARELESS WAY) He came in with four shopping bags and dumped them on the table. start learning
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to put down or drop something in a careless way:
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dump verb [T] (GET RID OF) The tax was so unpopular that the government decided to dump it. Several old cars had been dumped near the beach. Toxic chemicals continue to be dumped into the river. start learning
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to get rid of something unwanted, especially by leaving it in a place where it is not allowed to be:
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dump verb [T] (END RELATIONSHIP) INFORMAL If he's so awful, why don't you just dump him? start learning
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to suddenly end a romantic relationship you have been having with someone:
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dump [PLACE - RUBBISH] (UK also rubbish dump); (US also garbage dump) I'm going to clean out the basement and take everything I don't want to the dump. start learning
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a place where people are allowed to leave their rubbish:
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dump [UNPLEASANT PLACE] informal This town is a complete dump! start learning
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a very unpleasant and unattractive place:
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an ammunition/arms/weapons/food dump start learning
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a place where things of a particular type are stored, especially by an army:
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dump [STOP SUPPORTING] informal The star was dumped by the record label after a string of failures. start learning
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to stop using or supporting something or someone:
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The Commerce Department announced punitive tariffs against foreign paper manufacturers accused of dumping goods in the US below cost. dump on sth The producers of the goods are claiming that foreign manufacturers are dumping on the market. start learning
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to sell goods so cheaply in another country that companies in that country cannot compete fairly:
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dump [SELL STH YOU DO NOT WANT TO KEEP] As the stock rose, he dumped his shares, making $160,000. start learning
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to sell large amounts of something that you do not want to keep:
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a copying of stored data to a different location, performed typically as a protection against loss.
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a container used to hold and display goods in a store:
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dump truck - US (UK dumper truck) tip truck - Australian English start learning
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a large truck for transporting heavy loads, with a back part that can be raised at one end so that its contents fall out
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a place where a town's rubbish is put
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have/take a dump - offensive start learning
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to pass the contents of the bowels out of the body
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infodump (also info dump, info-dump) The piece is a massive, unenlightening info-dump, containing paragraph after paragraph of brain-bending detail. Any writer must balance infodump with telling the reader too little. start learning
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the practice of giving too much information at the same time, or a piece of writing that does this:
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