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Colloq cut: Each shareholder is allowed a quota of the new
shares based on the number now held.
quotation n. 1 quote, passage, citation, reference, allusion, extract,
excerpt, selection: For many years Frances collected quotations
from the speeches of politicians. 2 quote, (bid or asking or
offer or market) price, charge, fixed price, rate, cost; value:
The quotation for Universal General International stood at 486
pence at the close of the market on Friday.
quote v. 1 cite, mention, recite, repeat, retell, reproduce,
duplicate, call up, bring up, bring in, instance, exemplify,
refer to, reference, extract, excerpt: Let me quote to you the
relevant passage from Paradise Lost .
--n. 2 See quotation, above.
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rabble n. 1 mob, crowd, horde, throng, swarm, gang: We narrowly
escaped the wrath of the rabble fighting the police in the
square. 2 the rabble. Derogatory masses, proletariat, hoi
polloi, commoners, peasantry, ragtag and bobtail, vermin,
outcasts, riff-raff, scum, dregs (of society), lower classes,
canaille, commonalty, Colloq trash, the great unwashed: He
always refers to blue-collar workers as 'the rabble'.
rabble-rouser
n. agitator, demagogue, instigator, inciter, firebrand,
incendiary, radical, troublemaker, agent provocateur,
revolutionary, insurrectionist, Colloq hell-raiser: The crowd
was whipped into a frenzy by a rabble-rouser who was not
identified.
rabid adj. 1 unreasonable, unreasoning, extreme, fanatical; raging,
furious, violent, crazed, frenzied, maniacal, wild, mad,