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"A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word on the following page."
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"(printing, historical) A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word on the following page."
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"_dis1": "76 12 12",
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"_dis1": "79 11 10",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "word that repeats the first word on the following page",
"word": "siirtymäsana"
},
{
"_dis1": "79 11 10",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "word that repeats the first word on the following page",
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"The last word of a speech, serving as a cue for the next speaker."
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"(theater) The last word of a speech, serving as a cue for the next speaker."
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"ref": "2014 November, Najwa al-Qattan, “When mothers ate their children”, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, volume 46, number 4, →JSTOR, pages 719–736",
"text": "The war itself has several names, including \"the famine war\" (ḥarb al-majā'a) and seferberlik, a Turkish word, meaning \"travel by land,\" that began its wartime career as a reference to \"military conscription\" but quickly became a catchword for all the calamities and suffering experienced by civilians.",
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"A word or expression repeated until it becomes representative of a party, school, business, or point of view."
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"A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word on the following page."
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"(printing, historical) A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word on the following page."
],
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],
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"media",
"printing",
"publishing"
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"The last word of a speech, serving as a cue for the next speaker."
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"(theater) The last word of a speech, serving as a cue for the next speaker."
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"sense": "word under right-hand side",
"word": "guide word"
},
{
"sense": "word under right-hand side",
"word": "custos"
},
{
"sense": "word repeated to become representative",
"word": "watchword"
}
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "word that repeats the first word on the following page",
"word": "siirtymäsana"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "word that repeats the first word on the following page",
"word": "kustodi"
},
{
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"sense": "word that repeats the first word on the following page",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Kustos"
}
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"word": "catchword"
}
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