"near-by" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more near-by",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most near-by",
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        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "word": "nearby"
        }
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          "ref": "1918, Henry B[lake] Fuller, On the Stairs, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Hougton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, part V, section I, page 148:",
          "text": "He had the car pushed to a near-by stable, amidst the mixed emotions of the little crowd, and next day he had it hauled home.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1947 July 26, Jim Marshall, “Glamor Hits the Range”, in Walter Davenport, editor, Collier’s, volume 120, number 4, Springfield, Oh.: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 34, column 1:",
          "text": "Marge recently dressed Joanne Dru ranch style during the making of Howard Hawks’ Red River. Miss Dru, in old-style calicoes and ginghams, felt grubby beside the dudes and dudesses who galloped over from near-by ranches to the Arizona location where the picture was being shot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Carey McWilliams, “Aimee Semple McPherson: ‘Sunlight in My Soul’”, in Isabel Leighton, editor, The Aspirin Age, 1919-1941, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, page 60:",
          "text": "Los Angeles itself was just emerging from a long period of glacial fundamentalism, its ice age of Protestant orthodoxy. In near-by Hollywood, the movie colony was in its “purple period,” full of scandal and commotion.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of nearby."
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "near-by"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more near-by",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most near-by",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "nearby"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1918, Henry B[lake] Fuller, On the Stairs, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Hougton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, part V, section I, page 148:",
          "text": "He had the car pushed to a near-by stable, amidst the mixed emotions of the little crowd, and next day he had it hauled home.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1947 July 26, Jim Marshall, “Glamor Hits the Range”, in Walter Davenport, editor, Collier’s, volume 120, number 4, Springfield, Oh.: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 34, column 1:",
          "text": "Marge recently dressed Joanne Dru ranch style during the making of Howard Hawks’ Red River. Miss Dru, in old-style calicoes and ginghams, felt grubby beside the dudes and dudesses who galloped over from near-by ranches to the Arizona location where the picture was being shot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Carey McWilliams, “Aimee Semple McPherson: ‘Sunlight in My Soul’”, in Isabel Leighton, editor, The Aspirin Age, 1919-1941, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, page 60:",
          "text": "Los Angeles itself was just emerging from a long period of glacial fundamentalism, its ice age of Protestant orthodoxy. In near-by Hollywood, the movie colony was in its “purple period,” full of scandal and commotion.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of nearby."
      ],
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  "word": "near-by"
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