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  • 1frequency — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Repeated occurrence Nouns frequency, oftenness; repetition, recurrence, persistence; perse verance; prevalence; continuance; oscillation. Verbs do frequently; do nothing but, keep on, continue (see… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 2helicopter — n American a temporary visitor. In middle class adult slang of the 1990s the word would be applied to a neighbour who drops in just to eat and then disappears or, as in the phrase helicopter parents , by school staff referring to parents who stay …

    Contemporary slang

  • 3Czechoslovakia, Socialist Republic Of —    In the latter half of the 1940s, Czechoslovakia (since 1993 the Czech Republic and Slovakia) was transformed into a communist satellite state of the Soviet Union. Up until its collapse following the 1989 Velvet Revolution, the Czech regime,… …

    Historical dictionary of Marxism