Usually means: Achieve two goals with one action.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word kill two birds with one stone:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. kill two birds with one stone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. kill two birds with one stone: Merriam-Webster
  3. kill two birds with one stone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. kill two birds with one stone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kill two birds with one stone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. kill two birds with one stone: Wiktionary
  7. kill two birds with one stone: Dictionary.com
  8. Kill Two Birds with One Stone: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kill two birds with one stone: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kill two birds with one stone: Urban Dictionary

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▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To solve two problems with one single action.

Similar:
have one's cake and eat it too, have it both ways, eat one's cake and have it too, have one's cake and eat it, have two strings to one's bow, coarticulate, have something going for one, cut both ways, co-locate, coevaluate, more...

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Similar:
have one's cake and eat it too, have it both ways, eat one's cake and have it too, have one's cake and eat it, have two strings to one's bow, coarticulate, have something going for one, cut both ways, co-locate, coevaluate, more...



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