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To remove (a person or thing) from a position.
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The act of stopping or slowing something (especially a process).
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(transitive, obsolete) To give; hand over; deliver up; yield.
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(idiomatic, transitive) To earn (money).
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(US) To stop fighting or arguing; to reach an agreement, or at least a truce.
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(transitive) To withdraw something from sale or circulation.
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(idiomatic, accounting, of an operating loss or other legal credit) To apply to the taxable income of following years, thereby easing the overall tax burden; carry over.
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Something whose duration has been extended or that has been transferred to another time.
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(transitive) Alternative form of co-endure [(intransitive) To endure alongside someone or something, to coexist over time.]
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(chiefly Britain and Canada, idiomatic, politics) Of a member of a parliament, to resign from one's political party and join another party, resulting in moving from one's currently assigned desk or seat in the legislative chamber to a new desk or seat physically located with the other members of one's new party.
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(UK politics, informal, of a member of a parliament) To resign from one’s political party and join another party, resulting in moving from one’s currently assigned desk or seat in the legislative chamber to a new desk or seat physically located with the other members of one’s new party.
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To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
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(intransitive, law) To interpose a demurrer.
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To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
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(intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
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(transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
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(transitive) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, etc.
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(transitive, intransitive, computing) To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
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(business, human resource management) A final meeting between an individual who is leaving his or her employment and a representative of the employing organization, in order to gather information about employment conditions and to ensure a fair, informed, orderly departure.
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(computing, programming) A computer program which exits cleanly from an application, or on computer shutdown
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(transitive) To put up (a child) for international adoption.
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(transitive, idiomatic, business) To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.
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(idiomatic) To do (somebody's) job; to perform or assume (somebody's) role.
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(archaic, transitive) To stone for; gain over; bribe.
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(transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
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(idiomatic) to relent, yield, surrender or admit defeat
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(idiomatic) To announce one's intent to leave a job; to inform an employer that one is leaving.
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To give precedence to other road users.
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(idiomatic, informal, slang) To pay for one's own food and bills, or split the cost, when eating at a restaurant or going out for entertainment.
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(transitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To save; spare; refrain from using or spending
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(idiomatic) To donate (as second hand.)
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(transitive) To give something to a responsible person.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To deliver (someone to an enemy, police, etc.).
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(intransitive) Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
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(transitive) To expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase.
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(idiomatic) To transfer ownership (or care) of, especially by means of a legal document.
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(transitive with for) To give place or step aside.
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(transitive, UK dialectal) To undertake a debt.
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To complete the procedures and paperwork for terminating a tour of duty.
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To terminate a person's employment, but help the former employee to obtain another post.
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(dated) Of money, bills, etc.: to be accepted as genuine.
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(idiomatic) To contribute in order to participate.
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(business) Of an investment, to make sense financially or to be expected to generate the desired returns
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(intransitive, idiomatic, chiefly US) To accept a bill and pay it, especially at a bar or restaurant.
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(idiomatic) To make someone perform a task or duty, especially one they are not prepared or willing to do; to make something serve a function, especially one it was not designed or intended for.
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(intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
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(transitive) To store, or place in reserve; to save (money, etc.) for later use.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To remind someone of their position.
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(obsolete) To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties.
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The person who takes over a shift for another.
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(dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
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(transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
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(obsolete) The act of withholding; restraint; reserve.
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(law, obsolete) Exception; reservation.
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To send away for, to request a delivery of.
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(transitive, archaic) To pay back; to have one's revenge on.
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(transitive) To present (food or drink) to those who will consume it; to serve.
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(transitive) To disagree with something and reject or overturn it.
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(intransitive) To yield or give way to another.
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To relieve someone temporarily.
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(intransitive) Of two or more people, to do the same thing one after another, taking one another's place alternately.
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A conclusion, idea or lesson learned at some event for future use.
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Alternative form of take-up [The act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.]
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(transitive) To charge, as with a fault.
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(transitive) To count (members of a sequence), to enumerate.
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Leave (vacation) from employment whose conclusion (end) coincides with the conclusion of the employment.
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(intransitive) To issue or result.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To submit something; to give.
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(intransitive) To leave one's work to take part in a strike.
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The act of coming forth.
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(transitive) To move away; remove.
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Obsolete spelling of withhold [(transitive) To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.]
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To give way; to allow another to pass first.
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Synonym of cede the field
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