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  2. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    American English meanings kebab commonly a döner kebab (sometimes doner or donner kebab), strips of meat (usu. lamb or chicken) grilled by being heated on a revolving device and served stuffed in a pita bread (In the US, the Greek varieties souvlaki or gyro are better known than the Turkish döner)

  3. American English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    American English has always shown a marked tendency to use nouns as verbs. [13] Examples of verbed nouns are interview, advocate, vacuum, lobby, pressure, rear-end, transition, feature, profile, spearhead, skyrocket, showcase, service (as a car), corner, torch, exit (as in "exit the lobby"), factor (in mathematics), gun ("shoot"), author (which disappeared in English around 1630 and was ...

  4. Will call - Wikipedia

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    It may also refer to the department within a business where goods are staged for customer pick up. The word "call" is a shortened form of "call for", which means "to come and get", so "will call" literally means "(the customer) will call for (come and get) the goods."

  5. Pickup - Wikipedia

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    Pick-up (gaming), anything that you collect whilst playing a video game; Pick-Up, a 1955 novel by Charles Willeford; Pick Up!, a chocolate-dipped snack bar from Bahlsen; The Pickup, a 2001 novel by Nadine Gordimer; Toyota Pickup, a pickup truck marketed in the United States by Toyota; Isuzu Pickup, a pickup truck marketed in the United States ...

  6. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension .

  7. Bargain - Wikipedia

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    Bargain may refer to: The process whereby buyer and seller agree the price of goods or services, see bargaining. An agreement to exchange goods at a price. A discounted price offered by the seller to attract buyers. "Bargain" (song), a song by The Who; Bargain (TV series), a 2022 South Korean television series

  8. Begging - Wikipedia

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    Under this law, officials of the Social Welfare Department, assisted by the police, conduct raids to pick up beggars who they then try in special courts called 'beggar courts'. If convicted, they are sent to certified institutions called 'beggar homes', also known as Sewa Kutir , for a period ranging from one to ten years for detention ...

  9. Bargaining - Wikipedia

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    For the definition of a specific bargaining solution, it is usual to follow Nash's proposal, setting out the axioms this solution should satisfy. Some of the most frequent axioms used in the building of bargaining solutions are efficiency , symmetry, independence of irrelevant alternatives, scalar invariance, monotonicity, etc.