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  • 1soft job — index sinecure Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2soft job — easy and profitable task …

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  • 3soft — W2S2 [sɔft US so:ft] adj comparative softer superlative softest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(not hard)¦ 2¦(not rough)¦ 3¦(not loud)¦ 4¦(colour/light)¦ 5¦(no hard edges)¦ 6¦(rain/wind)¦ 7¦(not strict)¦ …

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  • 4soft´ly — soft «sft, soft», adjective, adverb, noun, interjection. –adj. 1. a) not hard; yielding readily to touch or pressure: »a soft tomato, soft ground, a soft bed. b) easily bent without breaking; not stiff; flexible: »Oil keeps leather soft.… …

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  • 5soft — [sôft, säft] adj. [ME < OE softe, gentle, quiet < sefte, akin to Ger sanft < IE base * sem , together, together with > SMOOTH, SAME: basic sense “fitting, friendly, suited to”] 1. giving way easily under pressure, as a feather pillow… …

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  • 6soft — adjective 1 NOT HARD a) not hard or firm, but easy to press: a soft pillow | My feet sank into the soft ground. | get/go soft: Cook the onions until they go soft. b) less hard than average: a soft lead pencil | a soft cheese 2 NOT ROUGH having a… …

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  • 7soft — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sōfte, alteration of sēfte; akin to Old High German semfti soft Date: before 12th century 1. a. pleasing or agreeable to the senses ; bringing ease, comfort, or quiet < the soft influences&#8230; …

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  • 8soft — softly, adv. softness, n. /sawft, soft/, adj., softer, softest, n., adv., interj. adj. 1. yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow. 2. relatively deficient in&#8230; …

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  • 9job — I. /dʒɒb / (say job) noun 1. a piece of work; an individual piece of work done in the routine of one s occupation or trade. 2. a piece of work of defined character undertaken for a fixed price. 3. the unit or material being worked upon. 4. the&#8230; …

  • 10soft — [[t]sɔft, sɒft[/t]] adj. and adv. er, est, n. interj. 1) yielding readily to touch or pressure; not hard or stiff 2) mel relatively deficient in hardness, as metal or wood 3) smooth to the touch; not rough: soft skin[/ex] 4) pleasant or&#8230; …

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