"write for the drawer" meaning in English

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        "2": "cs",
        "3": "psát do šuplíku"
      },
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      "name": "clq"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Czech psát do šuplíku.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "writes for the drawer",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "writing for the drawer",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wrote for the drawer",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "written for the drawer",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "write<,,wrote,written> for the drawer"
      },
      "expansion": "write for the drawer (third-person singular simple present writes for the drawer, present participle writing for the drawer, simple past wrote for the drawer, past participle written for the drawer)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "parents": [],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Martin Cruz Smith, Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel, page 19:",
          "text": "It was a middle-aged intellectual crowd. Publishers who abandoned their writers, writers who wrote for the drawer, artists who had become wealthy by turning Social Realism into kitsch.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, pages 341–342:",
          "text": "It seemed suddenly miraculous that she was here, in America, holding in her hands a book that she had written for the drawer four years earlier in Moscow.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Our Mythical Childhood, page 351:",
          "text": "Since I first began to write I had to write for the drawer.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write a work for posterity and/or friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat."
      ],
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        [
          "write",
          "write"
        ],
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          "posterity",
          "posterity"
        ],
        [
          "friend",
          "friend"
        ],
        [
          "publish",
          "publish"
        ],
        [
          "samizdat",
          "samizdat"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "write for the drawer"
}

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        "2": "cs",
        "3": "psát do šuplíku"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Czech psát do šuplíku",
      "name": "clq"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Czech psát do šuplíku.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "writes for the drawer",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "writing for the drawer",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wrote for the drawer",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "written for the drawer",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "write<,,wrote,written> for the drawer"
      },
      "expansion": "write for the drawer (third-person singular simple present writes for the drawer, present participle writing for the drawer, simple past wrote for the drawer, past participle written for the drawer)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Martin Cruz Smith, Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel, page 19:",
          "text": "It was a middle-aged intellectual crowd. Publishers who abandoned their writers, writers who wrote for the drawer, artists who had become wealthy by turning Social Realism into kitsch.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, pages 341–342:",
          "text": "It seemed suddenly miraculous that she was here, in America, holding in her hands a book that she had written for the drawer four years earlier in Moscow.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Our Mythical Childhood, page 351:",
          "text": "Since I first began to write I had to write for the drawer.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write a work for posterity and/or friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat."
      ],
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          "write",
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          "posterity",
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          "friend",
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        ],
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          "publish",
          "publish"
        ],
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          "samizdat"
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  "word": "write for the drawer"
}