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CD 3.2 Ceefax... 3.3 CFC 3.4 chair... 3.5 citizen-friendly 3.6 claimant... 3.7 cocooning... 3.8 crack... 3.9 CT 3.10 cursor... 3.11 cyberpunk... 3.12 D 4.0 dairy-free... 4.1 ... 4.2 ddI... 4.3 deafened... 4.4 diddy goth... 4.5 doc, docu-... 4.6 dramadoc... 4.7 DTP 4.8 dude... 4.9 DVI 4.10 dweeb 4.11 dynamize 4.12 E 5.0 E°... 5.1 earcon... 5.2 eco... 5.3 E-free... 5.4 EFTPOS... 5.5 EGA card 5.6 electro... 5.7 email... 5.8 enterprise culture... 5.9 EPOS 5.10 ERM 5.11 ESA 5.12 etext... 5.13 Euro... 5.14 Eve 5.15 exchange rate mechanism... 5.16
F 6.0 F 6.1 faction... 6.2 FF 6.3 FF 6.4 fibre... 6.5 flak... 6.6 fontware... 6.7 F-plan 6.8 free... 6.9 fudge and mudge... 6.10 G 7.0 gag me with a spoon... 7.1 gel... 7.2 ghetto blaster 7.3 GIFT... 7.4 G-Jo 7.5 glam... 7.6 go... 7.7 graphic novel... 7.8 guestage... 7.9 H 8.0 hack... 8.1 headbanger... 8.2 hidden agenda... 8.3 HM 8.4 hog... 8.5 ... 8.6 HRT 8.7 HTLV, human immunodeficiency virus, human T-cell lymphocyte virus 8.8 human shield... 8.9 hype... 8.10 I 9.0 ice... 9.1 IKBS 9.2 immune... 9.3 incendiary device... 9.4 indie... 9.5 Iran-contra... 9.6
Page 1 and 2: PREFACE Preface The Oxford Dictiona
Page 3 and 4: other indication of their register.
Page 5 and 6: subject area, the defining section
Page 7 and 8: The full and cross-reference entrie
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Page 15 and 16: W 23.0 wack... 23.1 well safe... 23
Page 17 and 18: people. Etymology: Formed by adding
Page 19 and 20: 1.3 ace... Just over 30 per cent of
Page 21 and 22: Spin Oct. 1989, p. 18 Aciiied was a
Page 23 and 24: are controlled by a computer which
Page 25 and 26: ather than political activism. This
Page 27 and 28: 1.4 Adam... already infected with H
Page 29 and 30: additives, some said in the pollute
Page 31 and 32: The air-waves of the small, stuffy
Page 33 and 34: 1.7 ageism patients. By the end of
Page 35 and 36: CU Amiga Apr. 1990, p. 89 -Aid comb
Page 37 and 38: lymphadenopathy syndrome developed
Page 39 and 40: Christian Science Monitor 2 Mar. 19
Page 41 and 42: New York Times 7 May 1990, section
Page 43 and 44: The Times 27 Dec. 1985, p. 12 all-t
Page 45 and 46: performance; also alternative comed
Page 47 and 48: anew. Now they call it 'rocket fuel
Page 49 and 50: animalist° noun (Politics) An anim
Page 51 and 52: yells Stein, his mouth seeming to m
Page 53 and 54: ecently. She said there are at leas
Page 55 and 56: 1.12 arb... for the first syllable
Page 57 and 58: describe an oil which has some use
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stress mechanisms. Observer 6 May 1
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1.17 Azeri... That night I freebase
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ecobabble (Environment), environmen
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A technique in music recording in w
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mutually dependent. The Times 16 No
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about in the seventies. Bailouts oc
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mind...Nature is deduced from the h
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in that the producer can bank on a
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In short, putting it bluntly, actua
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The Times 14 Sept. 1987, p. 10 batt
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popularity led to the development o
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After outbreaks of salmonella poiso
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2.3 bhangra History and Usage: For
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used in a transferred sense, for ex
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History and Usage: Bimbo first came
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component of the environment consis
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example, are given their distinctiv
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The Dow Jones, once up 712 points f
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2.6 BMX. radar: the small bump on a
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History and Usage: The name boardsa
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Etymology: Formed by compounding: a
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Serious damage can mean even more b
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Police took away...a 'little black'
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If a computer does not have a hard
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Goodness, was I going to give her a
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article also coined the term brat p
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It seems any moment they will break
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Etymology: For etymology and histor
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of buddy, 'friend'. The American fi
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fifth-in-a-row hit, Danny D's entre
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widely known since the advent of co
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Daily Telegraph 30 Oct. 1989, Manag
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individual country, cable tv has te
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Callanetics requires only two hour-
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Etymology: For etymology, see bottl
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Times Educational Supplement 7 Sept
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a card (see the last quotation belo
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City erupt on to the stage. These a
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forward the idea of caring capitali
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The Times 25 Apr. 1986, p. 10 cash
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Politics just aren't that important
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3.2 CD adjective: Catalysed; fitted
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3.3 Ceefax... This is a claim that
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compounds released into the atmosph
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area of mathematics and physics in
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A smokeable dollop of heroin costs
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The Times 16 July 1986, p. 36 Child
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program--reviewing records of claim
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this perceived mood of artistic cen
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3.8 cocooning... personal computers
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making cohabitation a fact of life
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p. 5 colourize transitive verb Writ
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from one area to another, and the a
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History and Usage: The term complem
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condom noun (Health and Fitness) A
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the rebels, even the end of the San
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Etymology: Formed by compounding; c
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est known tuber--a potato--reclinin
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The fact that so many counter-cultu
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established as the usual term, both
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Environment, is today expected to w
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inexplicably flattened, apparently
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It showed the group making the cros
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ecome senile. This process of crumb
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crystal healing noun (Health and Fi
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3.12 cyberpunk... cyberpunk noun So
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The Times 19 Feb. 1986, p. 17 Linco
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Economist 14 Feb. 1987, p. 19 damin
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4.3 ddI... Market lethargy has brou
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pre-lingually profoundly deaf. The
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Friedrich Magirius, superintendent
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President (or another high official
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that time. Mr Woodall, MP for 12 ye
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descriptions of genetic engineering
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Etymology: A specialized use of the
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terrorist attacks in which explosiv
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Etymology: Formed on the initial le
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disco noun Also written distco (Bus
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doc, docucombining forms (Lifestyle
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scientific inspectors doorstepping
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DTP (Science and Technology) see de
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4.10 DVI Etymology: Formed by makin
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5.0 E 5.1 E°... Norwich Union...ca
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ecopolitics (also ecopolicy, ecopol
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same way as environmental during th
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form of small tablets, could easily
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5.4 E-free... Financial World 7 Mar
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electromagnetism. In the musical se
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popularly confused with conventiona
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p.107 Sterling quickly lost the big
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Blitz Jan. 1989, p. 11 They are req
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History and Usage: This sense of en
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History and Usage: The use of envir
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environment°); used especially to
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5.11 ERM as a verb meaning 'to conv
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5.14 Euro... seventies. The distinc
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Institutional Investor May 1988, p.
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'European' (see the examples below)
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transitive or intransitive verb: To
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A blend of fact and fiction, especi
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History and Usage: Although congeni
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non-material things (such as broadc
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overweight almost into a moral issu
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History and Usage: Experiments in d
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6.4 FF FF (Lifestyle and Leisure) s
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Non-Yup by Ivor Pawsh (Advice: cons
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that has only gained a place in Bri
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Currently the England dressing room
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Listener 27 Sept. 1984, p. 19 The o
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F-plan (Health and Fitness) (Lifest
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noun freebasing; agent noun freebas
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intransitive or transitive verb: To
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Mitsubishi mixes high performance a
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term came into the news in the mid
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preventing calcium loss from the bo
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7.0 G A deliberately confusing, eup
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galleria noun (Business World) (Lif
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Part of the name Watergate, widely
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Blue Heat promisingly pits Brian De
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A luxurious exfoliating gel has bee
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when applied to industrial processe
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Etymology: Formed by adding the pro
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7.4 GIFT... GIFT acronym (Health an
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open' (of courts, proceedings, etc.
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in the general press for any kind o
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attracting large audiences in all p
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temperatures could be far-reaching,
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and doom is a gloom-and-doomster. A
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A style of popular music (originati
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humorously modelled on golden hands
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and certainly contributed to the di
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noun (Lifestyle and Leisure) A full
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estaurant and orders a couple of do
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organizations as well, and eventual
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Etymology: A figurative use of gree
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Bryan Burrough & John Helyar Barbar
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imitation of American Valspeak. Omi
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gutted adjective (Youth Culture) 8.
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Misuse Act (1990) was a formal atte
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Bruce Chatwin...and interrogate him
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where visitors were encouraged to h
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headbanger° noun Also written head
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headhunt transitive verb Also writt
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a neutral term and came to be appli
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In feminist jargon, history emphasi
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area of discrimination on grounds o
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Louisville player Derek Smith claim
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Simply find the hidden words...and
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more doubt upon the matter. The Tim
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8.4 HM virus which has not produced
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Who cares about its symbolism, home
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Mother Frances is best known as the
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Randall Lewis...discussed the 'hot
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8.6 ... 8.7 HRT It's huge...and las
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whether each individual person is r
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9.0 I 9.1 ice... hypertext, machine
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9.2 IKBS Etymology: A specializatio
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They were further down the road tha
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Janet Morley All Desires Known (198
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Wed Hosted by Dave Booth, a mix of
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infobit, a discrete piece of inform
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Fighting in Natal between sympathis
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adjective (Science and Technology)
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office developments, Northgate is n
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A one day briefing on intrapreneurs
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out Francesca Annis, shaking her he
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10.2 jack... Misset, an American ja
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Jobsworth--actually composed some y
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version, the computer jukebox has a
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This proved to be true of eating ha
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Etymology: A Japanese compound word
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exercises to the complete keyboard
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11.4 kidflation... Computer Bulleti
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11.5 krytron grown-up stuff. Listen
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journalist Simon Walters claims to
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and a manual to help designers to t
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during the eighties was enthusiasti
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Which? June 1987, p. 272 These are
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lifestyle products and the follower
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common as a result of the prevailin
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and a service allowing a business t
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surprisingly, though, it was hailed
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12.6 lock... and Science circular,
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12.8 luggable... luggable adjective
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Etymology: The word was invented by
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History and Usage: For history, see
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History and Usage: The magalog was
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promenade, but this is usually pron
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Exchange since the turn of the cent
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newsagent and television channel, o
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13.3 MBO endurance, etc. In the pas
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mechatronics noun (Science and Tech
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in the entertainment industry, sinc
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Elton--born Reginald Kenneth Dwight
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would be 15 feet.' 'Ah, I did?' he
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In financial jargon: representing a
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Which? Apr. 1990, p. 205 It was onl
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noun (Lifestyle and Leisure) (Music
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documentary, it consisted of thirty
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millions of British and American ci
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Mountain biking demands hill-walkin
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establishment of mousse as the gene
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uzzwords of the sales world in the
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sector...is growing at the rate of
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Issues [of the magazine]...embodied
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een attributed to both Bernard Levi
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nasty noun (Lifestyle and Leisure)
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neato adjective (Youth Culture) In
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Neighbourhood watch schemes are cat
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aping their elders. Art & Design Oc
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important way of advancing all kind
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connectivity; essentially this mean
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particular brand of music that tend
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14.3 nibble... of punk remained, bu
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derivatives, including niche advert
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e allowed in one's own neighbourhoo
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Etymology: A direct borrowing from
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(foods, drink, drugs, etc.) which m
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user. Plates arrive from the kitche
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oilflation (Business World) see kid
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party: see acid house): taking plac
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15.7 OTE... You're bound to be disa
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15.8 out... stir up (sometimes only
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15.9 ozone... Up to 150 staff will
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organized as a unit'. History and U
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markets outside the US as well. Mar
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History and Usage: A folded piece o
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tobacco smoke in the early seventie
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described as a PC XT (after the app
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dust (the most enduring of all of t
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called the 'peace dividend'. That i
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It is a question of restructuring--
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Etymology: Formed by compounding: a
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number of units of telephone time,
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16.6 piece... for press photographe
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eflecting differing attitudes to Jo
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PLA, PLWA (Health and Fitness) (Peo
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An American appeals court judge las
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Artists Newsletter Nov. 1987, p. 20
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Christianity, but this, of course,
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PRP (Business World) see OTE 16.11
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17.0 Q 17.1 qinghaosu... Guardian W
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from M. Gell-Man's theory of sub-at
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18.0 R Quorn--should be in the shop
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The big public market specializes i
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Daily Telegraph 19 Mar. 1991, p. 2
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typewriters of 100 literate Rambos,
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and 2 raps. Tower Records' Top Feb.
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Truth caught up with Mr Bush last w
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Martin Amis London Fields (1989), p
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study' to reflex, the term used for
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Restart noun Also written restart (
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late seventies there was increasing
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of the terminally ill, people on li
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use among drug users for some time
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dramatic roles. The technique sprea
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For the DJ, crossing over is more t
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A prison regulation in the UK where
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end of the seventies. As the moveme
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Pete Shelley's move from The Buzzco
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The Sacks/Williams of the film is w
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those seen under the Securitate its
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marketing in the more abstract sens
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History and Usage: Sendero Luminoso
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Correspondent Magazine 29 Oct. 1989
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noun (Lifestyle and Leisure) (Peopl
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19.7 sick building... the gap betwe
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y the end of 1992. Etymology: Forme
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Slasher films came in for a good de
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Independent on Sunday 1 Apr. 1990,
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among young people in the US (espec
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19.12 soca... New York City police
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developments in television newscast
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to advantage, while the latter is t
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19.14 SRINF History and Usage: The
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Nixdorf supported the development o
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A statesman or stateswoman. (Invent
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e a difficult crime to prevent, and
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century: the former enables us to s
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eighties. The central question conc
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from the second half of the eightie
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History and Usage: The Nielsen rati
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fashioned for a particular purpose'
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Etymology: Another figurative use o
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using this misleading shorthand, pl
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An assortment of 'technostressed-ou
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telebetting. The telecommunications
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A study...performed by the A. C. Ni
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produced. Providing a positive coun
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Etymology: The form -something coul
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Totally happening Melbourne based g
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a lover by an older person. Etymolo
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etween the price of stock index fut
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etc.; in US English, turtle is the
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usinesses, usually so as to sell of
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user-unfriendly, unhelpful to the u
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UK until the late eighties, when mo
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unwaged noun (People and Society) O
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successful in summing up the whole
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e pronounced separately, it acquire
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the US during the sixties and seven
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the computer virus to replicate its
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23.0 W 23.1 wack... The Times 6 Oct
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The trade mark of a type of persona
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network can leave many LAN administ
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constituent parts (the adjective so
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drug-pushing, the arrangers tended
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clinics, together with stop-smoking
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dustmen thousands of trips to the s
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'in' word in the opposite sense to
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the wide-spread concern over wildin
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derivatives, mostly connected with
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noun: In computing, an area of the
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all over again. Sunday Telegraph Ma
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Green Cuisine Feb./Mar. 1987, p. 24
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I've been female so long that I'd b
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A computer program which (like a vi
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24.0 X 24.1 XTC and Technology) Sho
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Financial Times 19 Apr. 1990, secti
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25.3 yuppie... The Guardian Angels.
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Independent 17 Sept. 1987, p. 18 'T
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26.2 zero History and Usage: This s
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26.3 Zidovudine... zero option invo
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26.4 zouave... Independent 15 Jan.
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