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  • 1abandoned property — discarded possessions, forsaken property, deserted property …

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  • 2Chinese property bubble — An empty corridor in the mostly vacant New South China Mall. The Chinese property bubble is an alleged ongoing real estate bubble in residential and/or commercial real estate in the People s Republic of China. The phenomenon has seen average… …

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  • 3Metropolitan Police Dog Support Unit — The Dog Support Unit (DSU) is a Central Operations branch within London s Metropolitan Police Service, providing trained police dogs and police officer handlers.[1] Police dogs are used operationally by the force in a variety of ways from public… …

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  • 4Dumpster diving — Binner redirects here. For the surname, see Binner (surname). Trashers redirects here. For the ice hockey team, see Danbury Trashers. 3R Concepts Waste Disposal Hierarchy Reduce Reuse Recycle …

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  • 5political philosophy — Branch of philosophy that analyzes the state and related concepts such as political obligation, law, social justice, and constitution. The first major work of political philosophy in the Western tradition was Plato s Republic. Aristotle s… …

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  • 6Glossary of environmental science — This is a glossary of environmental science.Environmental science is the study of interactions among physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment. Environmental science provides an integrated, quantitative, and… …

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  • 7Conversion (law) — For other uses of the word conversion , see Conversion. Conversion is a common law tort. A conversion is a voluntary act by one person inconsistent with the ownership rights of another.[1] It is a tort of strict liability.[2] Its criminal… …

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  • 8metallurgy — metallurgic, metallurgical, adj. metallurgically, adv. metallurgist /met l err jist/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jist/, n. /met l err jee/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jee/, n. 1. the technique or science of working or heating metals so as… …

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  • 9United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 10slavery — /slay veuh ree, slayv ree/, n. 1. the condition of a slave; bondage. 2. the keeping of slaves as a practice or institution. 3. a state of subjection like that of a slave: He was kept in slavery by drugs. 4. severe toil; drudgery. [1545 55; SLAVE… …

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