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elbow          
    1    elbow   elbows  
    Your elbow is the part of your arm where the upper and lower halves of the arm are joined.
        He slipped and fell, badly bruising an elbow.
    N-COUNT  
    
    2    elbow   elbows   elbowing   elbowed  
    If you elbow people aside or elbow your way somewhere, you push people with your elbows in order to move somewhere.
        They also claim that the security team elbowed aside a steward.
        Mr Smith elbowed me in the face.
        Brand elbowed his way to the centre of the group of bystanders.
    VB  
    = jostle  
    3    elbow   elbows   elbowing   elbowed  
    If someone or something elbows their way somewhere, or elbows other people or things out of the way, they achieve success by being aggressive and determined.
        Non-state firms  gradually elbow aside the inefficient state-owned ones.
        With the survival of the whole planet in mind, environmental concerns will elbow their way right to the top of the agenda.
    VB  
    
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suitable          
        suitable  
    Someone or something that is suitable for a particular purpose or occasion is right or acceptable for it.
        Employers usually decide within five minutes whether someone is suitable for the job.
        She had no other dress suitable for the occasion.
        The authority must make suitable accommodation available to the family.
    ADJ-GRADED: oft ADJ for n/-ing  
    
    ?suitability  
        ...information on the suitability of a product for use in the home.
    N-UNCOUNT: with supp  
    
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cheap          
    1    cheap   cheaper   cheapest  
    Goods or services that are cheap cost less money than usual or than you expected.
        I'm going to live off campus if I can find somewhere cheap enough.
        Smoke detectors are cheap and easy to put up.
        Running costs are coming down because of cheaper fuel.
        They served breakfast all day and sold it cheap.
    ADJ-GRADED: v-link ADJ, ADJ n, v n ADJ  
    * expensive, dear  
    ?cheaply  
        It will produce electricity more cheaply than a nuclear plant.
    ADV-GRADED: ADV after v  
    
    ?cheapness  
        The cheapness and simplicity of the design makes it ideal for our task.
    N-UNCOUNT  
    
    2    cheap  
    If you describe goods as cheap, you mean they cost less money than similar products but their quality is poor.
        Don't resort to cheap copies; save up for the real thing.
        ...a tight suit made of some cheap material.
    ADJ: ADJ n  
    = shoddy  
    3    cheap  
    If you describe the cost of someone's work as cheap, you disapprove of the way people are taking advantage of a situation to pay someone less than they should for the work that they do.
        ...unscrupulous employers who treat children as a cheap source of labour.
    ADJ: ADJ n  disapproval  
    
    4    cheap  
    If you describe someone's remarks or actions as cheap, you mean that they are unkindly or insincerely using a situation to benefit themselves or to harm someone else.
        These tests will inevitably be used by politicians to make cheap political points.
    ADJ: ADJ n  disapproval  
    
    5    cheap  
    If you describe someone as cheap, you are criticizing them for being unwilling to spend money. (AM)
        Oh, please, Dad, just this once don't be cheap.
    ADJ: usu v-link ADJ  disapproval  
    = mean  * generous  
    6    cheap  
    You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
        We will end up living in a society where life is cheap.
    PHR: V inflects  
    
    7    cheap  
    If someone does or buys something on the cheap, they spend less money than they should because they are more concerned with what it costs than with its quality. (INFORMAL)
        Most modern housing estates are terrible and inevitably done on the cheap.
    PHR: PHR after v  disapproval  
    
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appropriate          
    1    appropriate  
    Something that is appropriate is suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
        It is appropriate that Irish names dominate the list.
        Dress neatly and attractively in an outfit appropriate to the job.
        The teacher can then take appropriate action.
    ADJ-GRADED: oft it v-link ADJ that/to-inf, ADJ for/to n  
    * inappropriate  
    ?appropriately  
        Dress appropriately and ask intelligent questions.
        It's entitled, appropriately enough, `Art for the Nation'.
    ADV-GRADED: ADV with v, ADV with cl/group  
    
    ?appropriateness  
        He wonders about the appropriateness of each move he makes.
    N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n  
    
    2    appropriate   appropriates   appropriating   appropriated  
    If someone appropriates something which does not belong to them, they take it, usually without the right to do so. (FORMAL)
        Several other newspapers have appropriated the idea.
        The land was simply appropriated by the rulers.
    VB  
    = purloin  
    3    appropriate   appropriates   appropriating   appropriated  
    If a government or organization appropriates an amount of money for a particular purpose, it reserves it for that purpose. (FORMAL)
        Senator Lugar is skeptical that Congress will appropriate more funding for this purpose.
    VB  
    = earmark  
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entertainment          
        entertainment   entertainments  
    Entertainment consists of performances of plays and films, and activities such as reading and watching television, that give people pleasure.
        ...the world of entertainment and international stardom...
        There were feasts and banquets, theatrical entertainments and sporting competitions between local groups.
    N-VAR  
    
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cigarette          
        cigarette   cigarettes  
    Cigarettes are small tubes of paper containing tobacco which people smoke.
        He went out to buy a packet of cigarettes.
    N-COUNT  
    
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cannabis          
        cannabis  
    Cannabis is the hemp plant when it is used as a drug.
    N-UNCOUNT  
    = dope, pot  
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marijuana          
        marijuana  
    Marijuana is a drug which is made from the dried leaves and flowers of the hemp plant, and which can be smoked.
    N-UNCOUNT  
    = cannabis  
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connection          
    1    connection   connections  
    A connection is a relationship between two things, people, or groups.
        There was no evidence of a connection between BSE and the brain diseases recently confirmed in cats.
        The police say he had no connection with the security forces.
        He has denied any connection to the bombing.
    N-VAR: usu N prep  (BRIT) also connexion  
    = association, link  
    2    connection   connections  
    A connection is a joint where two wires or pipes are joined together.
        Check all radiators for small leaks, especially round pipework connections.
    N-COUNT  (BRIT) also connexion  
    
    3    connection   connections  
    If a place has good road, rail, or air connections, many places can be directly reached from there by car, train, or plane.
        Fukuoka has excellent air and rail connections to the rest of the country.
    N-COUNT: usu n N  (BRIT) also connexion  
    
    4    connection   connections  
    If you get a connection at a station or airport, you catch a train, bus, or plane, after getting off another train, bus, or plane, in order to continue your journey.
        My flight was late and I missed the connection.
    N-COUNT: usu sing  (BRIT) also connexion  
    
    5    connection   connections  
    Your connections are the people who you know or are related to, especially when they are in a position to help you.
        She used her connections to full advantage.
    N-PLURAL  (BRIT) also connexion  
    
    6    connection  
    If you write or talk to someone in connection with something, you write or talk to them about that thing. (FORMAL)
        I am writing in connection with Michael Shower's letter.
        13 men have been questioned in connection with the murder.
    PHR-PREP  (BRIT) also connexion  
    
    7    connection  
    You say in this connection or in that connection to indicate that what you are talking about is related to what you have just mentioned. (FORMAL)
        It is the 100th anniversary of his death. We here are having very great celebrations in this connection.
    PHR: PHR with cl  (BRIT) also connexion  
    
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wire          
    1    wire   wires  
    A wire is a long thin piece of metal that is used to fasten things or to carry electric current.
        ...fine copper wire.
        ...gadgets which detect electrical wires, pipes and timbers in walls.
    N-VAR  
    
    2    wire   wires  
    A wire is a cable which carries power or signals from one place to another.
        I ripped out the telephone wire that ran through to his office.
        ...the voltage of the overhead wires.
    N-COUNT: usu supp N  
    = cable  
    3    wire   wires   wiring   wired  
    If you wire something such as a building or piece of equipment, you put wires inside it so that electricity or signals can pass into or through it.
        ...learning to wire and plumb the house herself...
        Lamps should be safely wired.
        95% of all American households will be wired for cable in the year 2000.
        ...a badly wired appliance.
    VB  
    
    +    wire up   wires up; wiring up; wired up
    Wire up means the same as wire.
        He was helping wire up the Channel Tunnel last season.
        Wire the thermometers up to trigger off an alarm bell if the temperature drops.
        Security experts wired up dozens of expensive plants to the main alarm system at his mansion.
    PHR-V  
    
    4    wire   wires  
    A wire is the same as a telegram. (mainly AM)
    N-COUNT  
    = telegram  
    5    wire   wires   wiring   wired  
    If you wire a person, you send them a telegram. (mainly AM)
        He wired the chairman immediately.
        They wired back a long list of books.
        If I get another tummy ache, I will wire you to come.
    VB  
    
    6    wire   wires   wiring   wired  
    If you wire an amount of money to a person or place, you tell a bank to send it to the person or place using a telegram message. (mainly AM)
        I'm wiring you some money.
        They arranged to wire the money from the United States.
        Investigators say nearly $100,000 was wired into the suspect's bank accounts.
    VB  
    
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