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"text": "Taiwan held a ceremony on Thursday to commission the first squadron of its most advanced F-16 fighter, a US-made jet that will strengthen the island's defences against threats by China.",
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"In fact or in practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status. (Often opposed to de jure.)"
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"ipa": "/ˌdeɪˈfæktəʊ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/dɪˈfæktəʊ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌdiːˈfæktəʊ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌdeɪˈfæktoʊ/",
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"US"
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},
{
"ipa": "/dəˈfæktoʊ/",
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"US"
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˌdiˈfæktoʊ/",
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"US"
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"tags": [
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],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
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"word": "defacto"
}
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"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "in fact or in practice",
"word": "بحكم الأمر الواقع"
},
{
"code": "hy",
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"sense": "in fact or in practice",
"word": "փաստորեն"
},
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"word": "դե ֆակտո"
},
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "in fact or in practice",
"word": "事實上"
},
{
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"roman": "shìshíshàng",
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"code": "eo",
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"adjective"
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"sense": "in fact or in practice",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "in fact or in practice",
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"code": "fr",
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"word": "de facto"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "in fact or in practice",
"word": "de fait"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
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"word": "de facto"
},
{
"code": "gl",
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},
{
"code": "de",
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"code": "el",
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"word": "εκ των πραγμάτων"
},
{
"code": "el",
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"code": "io",
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"word": "aktuala"
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"code": "ja",
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"word": "デファクト"
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"alt": "じじつじょうの",
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"word": "事実上の"
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"word": "دفاکتو"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "belfe'l",
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"word": "بالفعل"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "in fact or in practice",
"word": "de facto"
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "факти́ческий"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "in fact or in practice",
"word": "de facto"
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"code": "tr",
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"code": "tr",
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],
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"sense": "legally undeclared spouse",
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}
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{
"ref": "1984, Sotirios Sarantakos, Living Together in Australia, page 141",
"text": "One of the vendors was simple and straight; he said that it was his policy not to rent a house to de factos.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1984, Australian Senate, Senate Weekly Hansard, volume 105, page 2213",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "2008, David de Vaus, Chapter 15: Australian Families: Social and Demographic Patterns, in Charles B. Hennon, Stephan M. Wilson (editors), Families in a Global Context, 2011, page 383,\nThe parental rights and responsibilities of de factos are the same as for legally married parents but, because property and maintenance of de factos is a state responsibility, there are differences between married and de factos in some states."
}
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"US"
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