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  2. Appellplatz - Wikipedia

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    Appellplatz (often spelt appelplatz) is a compound German word meaning "roll call area": (Appell + Platz). In English, the word is generally used to describe the location for the daily roll calls in Nazi concentration camps .

  3. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    a telephone call for which the recipient pays (US and UK also: collect call); also v. to reverse charge, to reverse the charges*, etc. to make such a call (dated in US, used in the 1934 American film It Happened One Night – US usually: to call collect) rota a roll call or roster of names, or round or rotation of duties (the) rozzers

  4. Roll Call - Wikipedia

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    Roll Call is the flagship publication of CQ Roll Call, which also operates: CQ (formerly Congressional Quarterly), publisher of a subscriber-based service for daily and weekly news about Congress and politics, as well as a weekly magazine. Roll Call's regular columnists are Walter Shapiro, Mary C. Curtis, Patricia Murphy, and Stuart Rothenberg.

  5. Ticket lock - Wikipedia

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    The ticket lock is an implementation of spinlock that adds this desired attribute. The following pseudocode [1] [3] shows the operations for initializing the lock, acquiring the lock, and releasing the lock. A call to ticketLock_acquire would precede the critical section of the code and ticketLock_release would follow it.

  6. Bingo (British version) - Wikipedia

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    A typical bingo ticket contains 27 spaces, arranged in nine columns by three rows. Each row contains five numbers and four blank spaces. Each column contains up to three numbers, which are arranged as follows, with some variation depending on bingo companies and/or where the game is played (e.g. hall, club or online): [6] [7]

  7. Raffle - Wikipedia

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    Customers buying restaurant raffle tickets at a 2008 event in Harrisonburg, Virginia. A strip of common two-part raffle tickets. A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each of which has the chance of winning a prize. At a set time, the winners are drawn at random from a container holding a copy of each number.

  8. Voting methods in deliberative assemblies - Wikipedia

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    The third method is a recorded vote ("the yeas and nays"), currently taken by a roll call. [25] The clerk calls the roll of senators alphabetical by name, and each Senator individually responds. [25] Following the call, the clerk then identifies those who voted in the affirmative and those in the negative. [25]

  9. Roll call (policing) - Wikipedia

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    A portion of each roll call (usually 20 minutes or less) is devoting to training. Typical roll call training involves the watch commander lecturing to the officers. Many watch commanders simply read the Department's policy on a given topic without any discussion of the practical application of that policy in the field. [7]