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  • 1Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon — Infobox Book name = Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon title orig = La Jangada Huit Cents lieues sur l Amazone translator = image caption = Original illustration of Jules Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires author = Jules Verne illustrator = Léon… …

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  • 2eight-hundred number — 800 number n. cvb a toll free telephone number preceded by the three digit code “800,” used esp. by a business to receive orders from distant customers • Etymology: 1975–80, amer …

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  • 3eight-hundred pound gorilla —  Powerful, important person or group.  ► “Fidelity, the 800 pound gorilla of brokerage house clients, wants electronic access to the models used by the firms’ analysts to estimate earnings of the companies they follow.” (Wall Street Journal, Aug …

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  • 4eight hundred number — …

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  • 5Hundred — Hun dred (h[u^]n dr[e^]d), n. [OE. hundred, AS. hundred a territorial division; hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga ra[thorn]jan to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel.… …

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  • 6Hundred court — Hundred Hun dred (h[u^]n dr[e^]d), n. [OE. hundred, AS. hundred a territorial division; hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga ra[thorn]jan to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt …

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  • 7eight|pen|ny — «AYT PEHN ee», noun, plural nies, adjective. –n. eight British pennies. –adj. worth eight pence; costing eight pence: »An eightpenny nail is 2½ inches long, and it is so called because originally the nails cost eight pennies per hundred …

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  • 8Hundred Eight Stars — Infobox Album | Name = Hundred Eight Stars Type = Album Artist = Fat Jon Released = 2007 Genre = Hip Hop Label = Producer = Fat Jon Reviews = Last album = The Same Channel (2006) This album = Hundred Eight Stars (2007) Next album = Hundred Eight… …

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  • 9Eight-hour day — Part of a series on Organized labour …

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  • 10Hundred Years War — (1337–1453)    The “Hundred Years War” is a nineteenthcentury term conventionally applied to an intermittent series of Anglo French wars fought between 1337 and 1453. Spanning the reigns of five monarchs in each country, the Hundred Years War… …

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