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cohort n. 1 troop, squad, squadron, platoon, brigade, unit, cadre,<br />

wing, legion, detachment, contingent: Ten select Roman cohorts<br />

were sent against the Mitanni. 2 company, band, group, faction,<br />

set, body, corps: She was a member of a small cohort of<br />

suffragettes. 3 companion, confederate, accomplice, associate,<br />

fellow, comrade, friend, confrŠre: Gerald then arrived with a<br />

few of his cohorts.<br />

coil<br />

v. 1 wind, twist, coil, snake, wrap, enwrap, spiral, Nautical<br />

fake or flake (down): The rope is coiled round a capstan.<br />

--n. 2 winding(s), circle(s), loop, whorl, spiral, helix,<br />

twist: His foot caught in the coil of rope and he was carried<br />

overboard.<br />

coin<br />

n. 1 specie, money, currency; change, cash, silver: I have<br />

only a few coins in my pocket. As he had no notes he had to pay<br />

in coin.<br />

--v. 2 mint, stamp: The US government has stopped coining<br />

silver dollars. 3 invent, create, conceive, originate, start,<br />

make up, fabricate, frame, concoct, think or dream up: James<br />

Joyce coined the word 'quark'. 4 coin it in or US only coin<br />

money. earn or make money, become wealthy, enrich oneself,<br />

Colloq rake it in: Those rock stars really coin it in from<br />

their record sales.<br />

coincide v. fall or come or go together, line up, co-occur, correspond,<br />

synchronize, match, tally, agree, (be in) accord, equal, jibe:<br />

This year, Easter and Passover coincide. The southern boundary<br />

coincides with the Thames.<br />

coincidence<br />

n. 1 co-occurrence, simultaneity, correspondence, concurrence,<br />

consistency, contemporaneity, synchronism, synchrony,<br />

coextension, coevality, coinstantaneity: The coincidence of<br />

twelve by the clock with noon by the sundial is exact only four<br />

times in the year. 2 congruence, matching, jibing, agreement,<br />

concord, accord, harmony, accordance, conformity, congruity,<br />

consonance, concomitance: Fortunately there was a coincidence<br />

of views on the main issues. 3 chance occurrence, fluke,<br />

chance, accident, luck, fortuity, fortuitousness, US and<br />

Canadian happenstance: By sheer coincidence, I met my next-door

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