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

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    exhausted (slang) (US: dead tired) an idler; someone who does not pay their debts, often in construction ("deadbeat dad") (slang) DC Detective Constable, a police officer who works in or with a branch of CID. direct current (see also other expansions) District of Columbia: deck (n.) the floor or level of a ship or other types of vehicles

  3. Fatigue - Wikipedia

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    Fatigue in a medical context is used to cover experiences of low energy that are not caused by normal life. [2] [3]A 2021 review proposed a definition for fatigue as a starting point for discussion: "A multi-dimensional phenomenon in which the biophysiological, cognitive, motivational and emotional state of the body is affected resulting in significant impairment of the individual's ability to ...

  4. Emotional exhaustion - Wikipedia

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    Personal resources, such as status, social support, money, or shelter, may reduce or prevent an employee's emotional exhaustion. According to the Conservation of Resources theory (COR), people strive to obtain, retain and protect their personal resources, either instrumental (for example, money or shelter), social (such as social support or status), or psychological (for example, self-esteem ...

  5. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  6. Occupational burnout - Wikipedia

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    Rotentstein et al. (2018) [68] in a review of research on physician burnout identified 142 different definitions of burnout, underlining the great heterogeneity in diagnostic criteria for burnout. Marked differences among researchers' conceptualizations of what constitutes burnout have underlined the absence of, and need for, a consensus ...

  7. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  8. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  9. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The thesaurus was originated in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 7th edition, where over 200 sets of synonyms were located at specific lexical entries. [5] 1st edition: Includes 2000 entries, 17000 synonyms and antonyms, 4000 definitions, 17 usage labels, 30 special subjects. Headwords derived from Oxford 3000 entries.