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  • 81reduction — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, considerable, great, large, major, marked, significant, substantial ▪ The changes may result in a greater reduction in employee numbers than we had previously …

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  • 82replacement — noun 1 replacing one thing with another ADJECTIVE ▪ complete, full ▪ Complete replacement of the roof tiles would be very costly. ▪ partial ▪ direct ▪ …

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  • 83effort — noun 1 PHYSICAL/MENTAL ENERGY (U) the physical or mental energy that is needed to do something: Lou lifted the box without any apparent effort. | take/require effort: It takes a lot of time and effort to get an exhibition ready. | take all the… …

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  • 84effort — UK US /ˈefət/ noun ► [C or U] a serious attempt to do something: an effort to do sth »This is part of an ongoing effort to develop the Asian debt market. »The guidelines require that companies make an effort to engender a culture of ethical… …

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  • 85familiarity — noun 1 knowing sb/sth well ADJECTIVE ▪ greater, intimate ▪ basic, passing (esp. AmE) VERB + FAMILIARITY ▪ have ▪ …

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  • 86finance — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 (AmE usually financing) money needed to fund sth ADJECTIVE ▪ cheap (= borrowed at low interest) ▪ necessary ▪ additional, extra (BrE), further (BrE) …

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  • 87maintenance — noun 1 keeping sth in good condition ADJECTIVE ▪ annual, daily, regular, routine ▪ periodic ▪ These fences are fairly rugged but they require periodic maintenance. ▪ …

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  • 88supervision — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ careful, close, intensive, strict ▪ adequate, effective, proper ▪ inadequate ▪ …

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  • 89American and British English differences — For the Wikipedia editing policy on use of regional variants in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of style#National varieties of English. This is one of a series of articles about the differences between British English and American English, which …

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  • 90Gibbs sampling — In statistics and in statistical physics, Gibbs sampling or a Gibbs sampler is an algorithm to generate a sequence of samples from the joint probability distribution of two or more random variables. The purpose of such a sequence is to… …

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