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"text": "We will head off on our holidays tomorrow.",
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"To begin moving away."
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"(intransitive) To begin moving away."
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to begin moving away",
"word": "lähteä"
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"sense": "to begin moving away",
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"text": "The cavalry will head off the bandits at the pass.",
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"To intercept."
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"(transitive) To intercept."
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"_dis1": "6 85 1 4 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to intercept",
"word": "torjua"
},
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"text": "The government took steps to head off summertime shortages of gasoline.",
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{
"ref": "2017 February 27, Mure Dickie, Henry Mance, “Theresa May’s speech to head off Scottish independence poll”, in Financial Times",
"text": "Theresa May will use a speech to the Scottish Conservative conference on Friday to try to head off growing nationalists’ demands for a second independence referendum.",
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{
"ref": "2023 June 9, Sam Jones, “Podemos and leftist alliance Sumar agree to run jointly in Spain’s snap election”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "Although the deal, announced hours before the deadline for registering coalitions expired, is intended to head off a split vote and to galvanise leftwing voters against the conservative People’s party (PP), which is leading the polls, there are enduring differences and tensions between Podemos and Sumar.",
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"To avoid the undesirable consequences of; to prevent."
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"(transitive) To avoid the undesirable consequences of; to prevent."
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"To start out."
],
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"(intransitive) To start out."
],
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"To turn away from the wind."
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"(nautical) To turn away from the wind."
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"To begin moving away."
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"(intransitive) To begin moving away."
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"To intercept."
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"(transitive) To intercept."
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"text": "The government took steps to head off summertime shortages of gasoline.",
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},
{
"ref": "2017 February 27, Mure Dickie, Henry Mance, “Theresa May’s speech to head off Scottish independence poll”, in Financial Times",
"text": "Theresa May will use a speech to the Scottish Conservative conference on Friday to try to head off growing nationalists’ demands for a second independence referendum.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 June 9, Sam Jones, “Podemos and leftist alliance Sumar agree to run jointly in Spain’s snap election”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "Although the deal, announced hours before the deadline for registering coalitions expired, is intended to head off a split vote and to galvanise leftwing voters against the conservative People’s party (PP), which is leading the polls, there are enduring differences and tensions between Podemos and Sumar.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"To avoid the undesirable consequences of; to prevent."
],
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"(transitive) To avoid the undesirable consequences of; to prevent."
],
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"glosses": [
"To start out."
],
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"(intransitive) To start out."
],
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},
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"To turn away from the wind."
],
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]
],
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"(nautical) To turn away from the wind."
],
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"translations": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to begin moving away",
"word": "lähteä"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to begin moving away",
"word": "echarse a andar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to intercept",
"word": "torjua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to intercept",
"word": "pysäyttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to intercept",
"word": "katkaista tie"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to avoid the undesirable consequence of",
"word": "välttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to avoid the undesirable consequence of",
"word": "estää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to avoid the undesirable consequence of",
"word": "torjua"
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],
"word": "head off"
}
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