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General dictionaries General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. pretext: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. pretext: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  3. pretext: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. pretext: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. pretext: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  6. Pretext: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. pretext: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. pretext: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. pretext: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. Pretext, pretext: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. pretext: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. pretext: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. pretext: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  14. Pretext: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. Pretext: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. pretext: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  17. pretext: Rhymezone [home, info]
  18. pretext: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  19. pretext: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  20. pretext: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  21. pretext: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  22. pretext: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  23. pretext: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  24. pretext: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pretext: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
  2. PRETEXT: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  3. pretext: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  4. Pretext: Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology [home, info]
  5. pretext: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretext: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretext: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pretext: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (pretext)

noun:  something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
noun:  an artful or simulated semblance

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Phrases that include pretext:   text and pretext

Words similar to pretext:   guise, pretence, pretexting, stalking-horse, ruse, more...


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