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{
"categories": [
"English initialisms",
"en:Military",
"en:Nautical",
"en:Ship prefixes"
],
"glosses": [
"A ship's prefix for warships of the navy of Colombia."
],
"links": [
[
"nautical",
"nautical"
],
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"ship",
"ship#English"
],
[
"prefix",
"prefix#English"
],
[
"warship",
"warship"
],
[
"navy",
"navy"
],
[
"Colombia",
"Colombia#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(nautical, military, initialism) A ship's prefix for warships of the navy of Colombia."
],
"tags": [
"initialism",
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"nautical",
"politics",
"transport",
"war"
]
}
],
"word": "ARC"
}
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