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"ref": "2008, Yvonne Jeffery, Liz Barclay, Michael Grosvenor, Green Living For Dummies, page 125",
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},
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],
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"sense": "to give a thing previously received as a gift",
"word": "weiterverschenken"
},
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"sense": "to give a thing previously received as a gift",
"word": "riciclare"
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{
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"text": "Food and drink are the most likely type of unwanted items to be passed along, accounting for 35 percent of all regifts, versus 23 percent for beauty and bath products and 18 percent for trinkets and collectibles.",
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"sense": "thing given as a gift that was previously received as a gift",
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