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"transport"
]
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"Australian English"
],
"glosses": [
"The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football)."
],
"links": [
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"Australian rules football",
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]
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"(Australia, sporting) The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football)."
],
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}
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"ipa": "/ˈpɹɛ.mi.ɛː/",
"tags": [
"UK"
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɛm.jɛː/",
"tags": [
"UK"
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"ipa": "/ˈpɹɛ.mi.ə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
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"ipa": "/ˈpɹɛm.jə/",
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"UK"
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"ipa": "/pɹɪˈmɪəɹ/",
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"US"
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"ipa": "/ˈpɹimjɚ/",
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"Canada"
]
},
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"ipa": "/ˈpɹemjə/",
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"General-Australian"
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},
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{
"sense": "parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a national parliament",
"word": "prime minister"
},
{
"sense": "parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a national parliament",
"word": "first minister"
},
{
"sense": "parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a state or provincial parliament",
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{
"sense": "head of government in a non-Westminster system",
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"sense": "second-in-command on a ship",
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{
"sense": "second-in-command on a ship",
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"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"word": "省長"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"english": "provincial",
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"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"word": "省长"
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{
"code": "yue",
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"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"word": "州長"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "zau¹ zoeng²",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"topics": [
"state"
],
"word": "州长"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"word": "省長"
},
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"code": "cmn",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shěngzhǎng",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhōuzhǎng",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
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"word": "州长"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"word": "ĉefministro"
},
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"word": "ministroprezidanto"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"word": "premiero"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"word": "osavaltion pääministeri"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"word": "provinssin pääministeri"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "premier ministre"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "premiér",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "премие́р"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "premier"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "premʹjér",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "премье́р"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "premʹjér-minístr",
"sense": "Australia, Canada: head of a state or provincial government",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "премье́р-мини́стр"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vtori oficer",
"sense": "nautical slang: the second-in-command officer of a ship",
"word": "втори офицер"
}
],
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"premier",
"premier (disambiguation)"
],
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}
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"name": "bor"
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},
{
"form": "premiering",
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],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The composer invited all his friends when they premiered the movie he orchestrated, we got to see it before anyone but the crew."
},
{
"ref": "1998, John Herschel Baron, Intimate Music: A History of the Idea of Chamber Music, page 231",
"text": "Beethoven at first promised Schuppanzigh the right to premier Opus 127, but Linke, cellist in Schuppanzigh′s Quartet, had also received Beethoven′s permission to premier the work at a special benefit concert for himself.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, W. Royal Stokes, Living the Jazz Life: Conversations With Forty Musicians About Their Careers in Jazz, page 97",
"text": "So what I want to do is try to premier the new piece with the other piece, and have just a big splash in the city.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Murry R. Nelson, The Rolling Stones: A Musical Biography, page 56",
"text": "To premier the record and to show that they were still able to perform, the Stones made a surprise appearance at the New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert on May 12 in Wembley Stadium.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To perform, display or exhibit for the first time."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To govern in the role of premier."
],
"links": [
[
"govern",
"govern"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɛ.mi.ɛː/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɛm.jɛː/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɛ.mi.ə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɛm.jə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹɪˈmɪəɹ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹimjɚ/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹemjə/",
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]
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},
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