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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"word": "kiinnitys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "droit de rétention"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Zurückbehaltungsrecht"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Retentionsrecht"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"word": "visszatartási jog"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "diritto di retenzione"
},
{
"alt": "たんぽぶっけん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tanpo bukken",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"word": "担保物権"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"word": "riena"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"word": "riana"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"word": "rīana"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"word": "prawo zatrzymania"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "direito de retenção"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zalógovoje právo",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "зало́говое пра́во"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zalóg",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зало́г"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"word": "pravo zadržaja"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "záložné právo"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zastavna pravica"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "derecho de retención"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "right to take and hold debtor’s property",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hawlrwym"
}
],
"word": "lien"
}
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{
"rhymes": "-aɪən"
}
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{
"word": "lyen"
}
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"4": "",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
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},
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"word": "lienal"
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{
"word": "lienic"
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"word": "lieno-"
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "1892, John Marie Keating, Henry Hamilton, John Chalmers Da Costa, A New Pronouncing Dictionary of Medicine",
"text": "Li'enal. Pertaining to the lien or spleen; splenic.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1914, Quain's Elements of Anatomy, volume 1, page 312",
"text": "The lien or spleen (figs. 282 to 285) is a soft, highly vascular contractile and very elastic organ of a dark purplish colour. It is placed obliquely behind the stomach, …"
}
],
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"(uncommon, possibly obsolete) The spleen."
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"word": "milt"
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{
"ipa": "/ˈlaɪ.ən/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪin"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪən"
}
],
"word": "lien"
}
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