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"ref": "1964, Te-kong Tong, “The Marshall Mission and Its Failure”, in United States Diplomacy in China, 1844-60, Seattle: University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 130–131",
"text": "Marshall’s concern over Russia was to prove itself not without foundation. The Russians were already exploring areas along the Amur River, and only seven years after Marshall’s warning, Russia acquired an important tract of land between the Ussuri and the sea (including the city of Hai-ts’an-wei, later changed to Vladivostok) as a reward for her good offices during the Anglo-French Chinese war of 1858-60.",
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"The beneficial services and acts of a third party, particularly mediation between two parties in a dispute."
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "good offices",
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],
"word": "invloed"
},
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"sense": "good offices",
"word": "goede diensten (m pl, conciliatory mediation)"
},
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"sense": "good offices",
"word": "apu"
},
{
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"sense": "good offices",
"word": "avunanto"
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"english": "service rendered",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "bon office"
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"word": "bonfaco"
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"sense": "good offices",
"word": "친절"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "dolbom",
"sense": "good offices",
"word": "돌봄"
},
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"sense": "good offices",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "good offices",
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "good offices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "invloed"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "good offices",
"word": "goede diensten (m pl, conciliatory mediation)"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "good offices",
"word": "apu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "good offices",
"word": "avunanto"
},
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"code": "fr",
"english": "service rendered",
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"sense": "good offices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "bon office"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "good offices",
"tags": [
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"plural"
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"word": "bons offices (concilatory mediation)"
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"sense": "good offices",
"word": "bonfaco"
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"sense": "good offices",
"word": "친절"
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "dolbom",
"sense": "good offices",
"word": "돌봄"
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"sense": "good offices",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "pakalpojums"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "good offices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mediação"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "good offices",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
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"word": "bune oficii"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uslúga",
"sense": "good offices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "услу́га"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pómoščʹ",
"sense": "good offices",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "по́мощь"
},
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "good offices",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
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"word": "писарница"
},
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"sense": "good offices",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
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"word": "управа"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "good offices",
"tags": [
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"word": "pisarnica"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "good offices",
"tags": [
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"word": "uprava"
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