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"ref": "1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 355",
"text": "The first up train was the morning semi-fast ex Buncrana, which sped through with No. 8 at its head, adroitly exchanging staffs at about 15 m.p.h. […] The next train through Tooban was our opposite number, and we duly received the vital staff.",
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"ref": "1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 590",
"text": "Except for the mid-winter period, when the 11.30 a.m. from Paddington and its opposite number will be withdrawn - Torquay now has seven daily expresses to and from Paddington as compared with five down and six up previously.",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "نَظِير"
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"sense": "counterpart",
"word": "virkaveli"
},
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "counterpart",
"word": "virkatoveri"
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"sense": "counterpart",
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},
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{
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"sense": "counterpart",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Amtskollege"
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{
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"feminine"
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"sense": "counterpart",
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"masculine"
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"word": "ομόλογος"
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{
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"feminine"
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"ref": "1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 355",
"text": "The first up train was the morning semi-fast ex Buncrana, which sped through with No. 8 at its head, adroitly exchanging staffs at about 15 m.p.h. […] The next train through Tooban was our opposite number, and we duly received the vital staff.",
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},
{
"ref": "1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 590",
"text": "Except for the mid-winter period, when the 11.30 a.m. from Paddington and its opposite number will be withdrawn - Torquay now has seven daily expresses to and from Paddington as compared with five down and six up previously.",
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"roman": "naẓīr",
"sense": "counterpart",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "نَظِير"
},
{
"code": "ar",
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"roman": "naẓīra",
"sense": "counterpart",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "نَظِيرَة"
},
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"sense": "counterpart",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ambtgenoot"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "counterpart",
"word": "virkaveli"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "counterpart",
"word": "virkatoveri"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "counterpart",
"word": "kollega"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "counterpart",
"word": "homologue"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "counterpart",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Amtskollege"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "counterpart",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
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"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "omólogos",
"sense": "counterpart",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "ομόλογος"
},
{
"code": "el",
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"roman": "omólogi",
"sense": "counterpart",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "ομόλογη"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "counterpart",
"word": "kolléga"
},
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "counterpart",
"word": "hasonló beosztású/megbízatású képviselő/politikus"
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"word": "opposite number"
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