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  • 81Common lunar year — Year Year, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [yogh]er, AS. ge[ a]r; akin to OFries. i?r, g?r, D. jaar, OHG. j[=a]r, G. jahr, Icel. [=a]r, Dan. aar, Sw. [*a]r, Goth. j?r, Gr. ? a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, ? a year, Zend y[=a]re… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 82Common school — School School, n. [OE. scole, AS. sc?lu, L. schola, Gr. ? leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably from the same root as ?, the original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See {Scheme}.] 1. A… …

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  • 83Common year — Year Year, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [yogh]er, AS. ge[ a]r; akin to OFries. i?r, g?r, D. jaar, OHG. j[=a]r, G. jahr, Icel. [=a]r, Dan. aar, Sw. [*a]r, Goth. j?r, Gr. ? a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, ? a year, Zend y[=a]re… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 84Common Core — This article is about a program of the University of Chicago. For the new U.S. education standards, see Common Core State Standards Initiative. The Common Core (also core curriculum or the Core) is the University of Chicago s implementation of… …

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  • 85Common English usage misconceptions — Text from Robert Louis Stevenson s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as it would appear in a professionally published edition in the United States today, featuring one sentence paragraphs, sentences beginning with the conjunctions but and and …

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  • 86common scold — noun someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault • Syn: ↑scold, ↑scolder, ↑nag, ↑nagger • Derivationally related forms: ↑nag (for: ↑nagger), ↑ …

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  • 87Common Foreign and Security Policy — (CFSP)    Created as a pillar of the Maastricht Treaty, the CFSP covers all areas of foreign and security policy in the European Union, including provision for majority voting on them. In practice, it is a policy that is still evolving, designed… …

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  • 88common thief — One who by practice and habit is a thief. An adjudication of a person which may be made after a person has been convicted more than once of larceny. It generally carries an additional sentence beyond that for larceny. Sometimes known as common… …

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  • 89common thief — One who by practice and habit is a thief. An adjudication of a person which may be made after a person has been convicted more than once of larceny. It generally carries an additional sentence beyond that for larceny. Sometimes known as common… …

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  • 90common injunction — A term of the early English practice for an injunction in aid of or as secondary to another equity, as in the case of an injunction to restrain proceedings at law, in order to protect and enforce an equity which could not be pleaded in the action …

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