See remit on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1728, Daniel Defoe, chapter 3, in Some Considerations on the Reasonableness and Necessity of Encreasing and Encouraging the Seamen, London, page 45:",
"text": "Such a Step as this would raise a Succession of able Seamen, and in a few Years would come to remit a thousand, or perhaps two or three thousand sturdy Youths every Year into the general Class of English Seamen;",
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"ref": "1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 18, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:",
"text": "Doctor Strong refers to me in public as a promising young scholar. Mr. Dick is wild with joy, and my aunt remits me a guinea by the next post.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2003: The Hindu, World Cup sponsors can remit money in forex: SC read at https://web.archive.org/web/20060308013536/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/02/01/stories/2003020104090100.htm on 14 May 2006",
"text": "The Supreme Court today allowed major sponsors, including LG Electronics India (LGEI), to remit foreign exchange for the tournament."
}
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"To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply."
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"(transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply."
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"sense": "to transmit or send, to supply",
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"sense": "to transmit or send, to supply",
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"sense": "to transmit or send, to supply",
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"english": "remit funds",
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"sense": "to transmit or send, to supply",
"word": "送金する"
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"sense": "to transmit or send, to supply",
"word": "remeter"
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"sense": "to transmit or send, to supply",
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"word": "переводи́ть"
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"word": "пересыла́ть"
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"roman": "jama cēyu",
"sense": "to transmit or send, to supply",
"word": "జమ చేయు"
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"ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:",
"text": "Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal\nRemit thy other forfeits.",
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},
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 20:23:",
"text": "Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.",
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"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 9, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book 7, page 39:",
"text": "Mrs. Western was a very good-natured Woman, and ordinarily of a forgiving Temper. She had lately remitted the Trespass of a Stage-coach Man, who had overturned her Post-chaise into a Ditch;",
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"ref": "2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 307:",
"text": "So he said that there was no sin to remit in baptism: ‘sin is not born with a man, it is subsequently committed by the man; for it is shown to be a fault, not of nature, but of the human will’.",
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"roman": "oproštavam",
"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "опрощавам"
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
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"word": "odpustit"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "vergeven"
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"_dis1": "2 61 2 6 3 2 3 2 6 7 2 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "antaa anteeksi"
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "remettre"
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "про́сти"
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "remitir"
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "проща́ть"
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"alt": "грехи́",
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "отпуска́ть"
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "remitir"
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"text": "to remit the performance of an obligation"
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"text": "1798, Hannah Brand, Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade, Act V, Scene 8, in Plays and Poems, Norwich, p. 131,\nI knelt for pardon, for this breach of Oath,\nWhich, thou forgiving, I then shall hope\nHeaven will remit hereafter punishment;"
},
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"ref": "1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 33:",
"text": "The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties without limit.",
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{
"ref": "1881, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Conclusion”, in The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages, Montreal, Que.: Dawson Brothers, →OCLC:",
"text": "He also took that old lawyer out of prison and remitted his fine.",
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"To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel."
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"(transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel."
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"sense": "to refrain from exacting or enforcing",
"word": "opheffen"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to refrain from exacting or enforcing",
"word": "lieventää"
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"text": "1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 12, 19 November, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, p. 124,\nAmong our own sex, there is no race of men more apt to indulge a spirit of acrimony, and to remit their natural Good Humour, than authors."
},
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"ref": "1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 125:",
"text": "He who connected himself with a woman whose brother, sister, or other relations, were fugitives, would probably be tempted to remit his pursuit of them, and even to favour their concealment.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1848, Anne Brontë, chapter 37, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:",
"text": "I was obliged at last almost entirely to remit my visits to the Grove, at the expense of deeply offending Mrs. Hargrave and seriously afflicting poor Esther, who really values my society for want of better [...]",
"type": "quote"
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"To give up; omit; cease doing."
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"(transitive, obsolete) To give up; omit; cease doing."
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"word": "opgeven"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to give up, cease doing",
"word": "stopzetten"
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"_dis1": "2 1 1 71 2 1 2 1 2 13 1 1 1",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to give up, cease doing",
"word": "antaa periksi"
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"sense": "to give up, cease doing",
"word": "lopettaa"
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"_dis1": "2 1 1 63 3 1 1 1 3 22 1 1 1",
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"sense": "to give up; to surrender; to resign",
"word": "antautua"
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"_dis1": "2 1 1 63 3 1 1 1 3 22 1 1 1",
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"sense": "to give up; to surrender; to resign",
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 210-211:",
"text": "Our Supream Foe in time may much remit\nHis anger,",
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{
"ref": "1774, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 20, in An History of the Earth: and Animated Nature, volume 1, London: J. Nourse, page 352:",
"text": "The wind at sea generally blows with an even steady gale; the wind at land puffs by intervals, encreasing its strength, and remitting it, without any apparent cause.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1846, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Typee:",
"text": "Their confidence revived, they might in a short time remit in some degree their watchfulness over my movements, and I should then be the better enabled to avail myself of any opportunity which presented itself for escape.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.)."
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"(transitive) To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.)."
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "smekčavam",
"sense": "to allow to slacken",
"word": "смекчавам"
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"_dis1": "2 2 2 12 53 2 9 2 4 9 1 1 1",
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"sense": "to allow to slacken",
"word": "verslappen"
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"sense": "to allow to slacken",
"word": "afnemen"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to allow to slacken",
"word": "hellittää"
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"_dis1": "2 2 2 12 53 2 9 2 4 9 1 1 1",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to allow to slacken",
"word": "höllentää"
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"_dis1": "2 2 2 12 53 2 9 2 4 9 1 1 1",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to allow to slacken",
"word": "vähentää"
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"ref": ", New York 2001, p.132-3",
"text": "Great Alexander in the midst of all his prosperity […], when he saw one of his wounds bleed, remembered that he was but a man, and remitted of his pride."
},
{
"text": "1775, Samuel Jackson Pratt, The Legend of Benignus, Chapter 5, in Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence, London: G. Robinson and J. Bew, Volume 1, p. 97,\nAt the end of about two months, the severity of my fate began to remit of its rigour."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality)."
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality)."
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"_dis1": "2 1 1 3 1 80 3 2 2 2 1 0 2",
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to show a lessening or abatement of a specified quality",
"tags": [
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"word": "polevit"
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 3 1 80 3 2 2 2 1 0 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to show a lessening or abatement of a specified quality",
"word": "doen afnemen"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 3 1 80 3 2 2 2 1 0 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to show a lessening or abatement of a specified quality",
"word": "vähentyä"
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"_dis1": "2 1 1 3 1 80 3 2 2 2 1 0 2",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to show a lessening or abatement of a specified quality",
"word": "asettua"
}
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"ref": "1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, London: Richard Wilkin, Part 4, p. 198:",
"text": "[The water] sustains these Particles, and carries them on together with it ’till such time as its Motion begins to remit and be less rapid than it was at, and near its Source;",
"type": "quote"
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"text": "You wonder how it comes to paſs that a King of Great Britain muſt now-adays be looked upon as one of the Magiſtrates of the Kingdom only; whereas in all other Kingly Governments in Chriſtendom, Kings are inveſted with a Free and Absolute Authority. For the Scots, I remit you to [George] Buchanan: For France, your own Native Countrey, to which you ſeem to be a ſtranger, to Hottoman's Franco Gallia, and Girardus a French Hiſtorian; [...]",
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"sense": "to transmit or send, to supply",
"word": "送金する"
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"lang": "Mongolian",
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"word": "мөнгө шилжүүлэх"
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"word": "remeter"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to transmit or send, to supply",
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],
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"sense": "to transmit or send, to supply",
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"sense": "to transmit or send, to supply",
"word": "remitir"
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"roman": "jama cēyu",
"sense": "to transmit or send, to supply",
"word": "జమ చేయు"
},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "oproštavam",
"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "опрощавам"
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"code": "cs",
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "vergeven"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "antaa anteeksi"
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
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"word": "rimettere"
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"word": "про́сти"
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "remitir"
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "проща́ть"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "отпуска́ть"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to forgive, pardon",
"word": "remitir"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to refrain from exacting or enforcing",
"word": "opheffen"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to refrain from exacting or enforcing",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to give up, cease doing",
"word": "opgeven"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to give up, cease doing",
"word": "stopzetten"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to give up, cease doing",
"word": "antaa periksi"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to give up, cease doing",
"word": "lopettaa"
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{
"code": "bg",
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"sense": "to allow to slacken",
"word": "смекчавам"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"word": "verslappen"
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"code": "nl",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"word": "hellittää"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to send back",
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to send back",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to send back",
"word": "terugzenden"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to give up; to surrender; to resign",
"word": "opgeven"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to give up; to surrender; to resign",
"word": "overgeven"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to give up; to surrender; to resign",
"word": "antaa periksi"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to give up; to surrender; to resign",
"word": "antautua"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to give up; to surrender; to resign",
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"sense": "to restore",
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"code": "fi",
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"ref": "2001: H. Meinardi et al, ILAE Commission, The treatment gap in epilepsy: the current situation and ways forward read at http://www.ilae-epilepsy.org/pubs/JAN2001.PDF on 14 May 2006",
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"text": "Next steps ... Create one IS organisation and extend remit to all HE activities."
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"text": "2012, The Economist, Sep 29th 2012 issue, Chile's economic statistics: For richer—or poorer\nChile needs to gather together its statisticians into a single agency, such as a new and improved INE, and give it more autonomy and a broader remit."
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