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"ref": "1912, Jack London, chapter 1, in The Scarlet Plague (fiction)",
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"(hunting, sometimes followed by on or for to designate the kind of animal hunted) A period of time during the calendar year when authorities within a jurisdiction permit the unrestricted hunting of one or more kinds of animal wildlife."
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"_dis1": "90 1 9",
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"sense": "time period for hunting",
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"sense": "time period for hunting",
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"ref": "1919, William MacLeod Raine, “Prologue”, in A Man Four-Square (fiction)",
"text": "In the country of the Clantons there was always an open season on any one of his name.",
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"ref": "1964 March 20, “Patents: Knocking Down the Pole”, in Time, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-16",
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"ref": "2009, Tawny Weber, Coming on Strong (fiction), page 37",
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"ref": "1959 October 26, “Music: Curtains Up!”, in Time, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-08-04",
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},
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"(idiomatic, often followed by on or for) A situation or period in which some activity is routinely carried on."
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"translations": [
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "time period for hunting",
"word": "pyyntikausi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "time period for hunting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Jagdzeit"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "time period for hunting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Jagdsaison"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "time period for hunting",
"tags": [
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"word": "jaktsäsong"
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