"hong" meaning in English

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          "text": "Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,\nFrom whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong",
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        "past of hang"
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        "(obsolete) past of hang"
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    "Hong (business)"
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      "expansion": "Cantonese 行 (hong4, “trade, business”)",
      "name": "der"
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          "ref": "1901, Hezekiah Butterworth, “1.Strange Things to Be Seen in China – Jataka Tales – the Boxers – American Tea-farms”, in Traveller Tales of China or the Story-Telling Hongs, Boston: Dana Estes & Company, page 11:",
          "text": "\"You and your son are about to visit China,\" said a Chinese agent of an old and established hong in Canton. […] The speaker was Ah Hue, or Ah Hue-Ling. He had made a reputation for honorable dealing as an agent of the tea trade.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, William Ukers, All About Tea:",
          "text": "In this partly manufactured state they are sold to collectors, who re-sell them to tea hongs, or factories, and these hongs in turn resell to middlemen, who supply the foreign exporter.",
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          "ref": "1997 August 7, “Superman versus the hong”, in The Economist, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Even though China's red flag now flutters above them, some 40% of the offices are still owned by Hongkong Land, an immensely wealthy company that is part of the Jardine Matheson group, the biggest of the British-owned “hongs” and the one that did most to establish the British territory.",
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        "A foreign trading company in China."
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        {
          "word": "hongbao"
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          "word": "hong boat"
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      "ipa": "/hɑŋ/",
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        "cot-caught-merger"
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          "text": "Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,\nFrom whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong",
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          "ref": "1901, Hezekiah Butterworth, “1.Strange Things to Be Seen in China – Jataka Tales – the Boxers – American Tea-farms”, in Traveller Tales of China or the Story-Telling Hongs, Boston: Dana Estes & Company, page 11:",
          "text": "\"You and your son are about to visit China,\" said a Chinese agent of an old and established hong in Canton. […] The speaker was Ah Hue, or Ah Hue-Ling. He had made a reputation for honorable dealing as an agent of the tea trade.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, William Ukers, All About Tea:",
          "text": "In this partly manufactured state they are sold to collectors, who re-sell them to tea hongs, or factories, and these hongs in turn resell to middlemen, who supply the foreign exporter.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 August 7, “Superman versus the hong”, in The Economist, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Even though China's red flag now flutters above them, some 40% of the offices are still owned by Hongkong Land, an immensely wealthy company that is part of the Jardine Matheson group, the biggest of the British-owned “hongs” and the one that did most to establish the British territory.",
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        "A foreign trading company in China."
      ],
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        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/hɔŋ/",
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      "ipa": "/hɑŋ/",
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        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
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