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"ref": "2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):",
"text": "Since we’re getting too friendly, Ephraim Winslow, tell me, what’s a timber man want with being a wickie? Not enough quiet for ye up north? Sawdust itching yer nethers? Foreman found ye too high-tempered for carrying an axe?",
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"word": "工头"
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"code": "cmn",
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"word": "領班"
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{
"code": "da",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "fr",
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"word": "contremaître"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
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"code": "gl",
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"word": "capataz"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Vorarbeiter"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Polier"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "εργοδηγός"
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"word": "művezető"
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"code": "izh",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"word": "päämees"
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"code": "izh",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "it",
"english": "at a construction site",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"word": "caposquadra"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
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"word": "capoccia"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"word": "工場長"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "mee kaa",
"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"word": "មេការ"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"word": "палир"
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
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"code": "nn",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
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"word": "formann"
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"code": "nn",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
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"word": "arbeidsformann"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"word": "سرکارگر"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
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"word": "majster"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
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"word": "kierownik budowy"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"word": "capataz"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
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"word": "maistru"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "máster",
"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ма́стер"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бригади́р"
},
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"code": "ru",
"english": "at a consruction site",
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"roman": "proráb",
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"word": "прора́б"
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{
"code": "ru",
"english": "at a mine",
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "штейгер"
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{
"code": "gd",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
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"word": "maor"
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{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "maor-obrach"
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{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "predák"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "capataz"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
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"word": "sobrestante"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
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"word": "förman"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
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"word": "lagbas"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "leader of a work crew",
"tags": [
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"word": "ustabaşı"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "juryformand"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf",
"word": "puheenjohtaja"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sprecher der Geschworenen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Sprecherin der Geschworenen"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf",
"word": "陪審長"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ard-ghooinney bingagh"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "juryformann"
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "juryformann"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "soxangu",
"sense": "member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf",
"word": "سخنگو"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "presidente del jurado"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "presidenta del jurado"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ordförande"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf",
"tags": [
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],
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}
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