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"(figurative) Any tool or technique that can solve many types of difficulty."
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"tags": [
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"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
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"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
"tags": [
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"word": "Generalschlüssel"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
"tags": [
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"word": "Hauptschlüssel"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
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"word": "Zentralschlüssel"
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"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
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"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
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"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
"word": "álkulcs"
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"roman": "oyakagi",
"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
"word": "親鍵"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kalauz",
"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
"tags": [
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"word": "калауз"
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{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
"word": "kunci induk"
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{
"code": "gv",
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"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
"tags": [
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
"tags": [
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"word": "chave mestra"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "llave maestra"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
"tags": [
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"word": "huvudnyckel"
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"sense": "a key that opens a set of several locks",
"word": "liyabe-maestra"
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],
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"Master keying"
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"word": "master key"
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