greenmail | (noun) (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business | - |
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greenmarket | (noun) an open-air marketplace for farm products | Synonyms: farmer's market, green market |
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gunman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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(noun) a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) | Synonyms: gun |
inmarriage | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: endogamy, intermarriage |
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inmate | (noun) one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital) | - |
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(noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inpatient |
(noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, convict, yard bird, yardbird |
ironman | (noun) a strong man of exceptional physical endurance | Synonyms: iron man |
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mainmast | (noun) the chief mast of a sailing vessel with two or more masts | - |
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mizenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizzen, mizzenmast |
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mizzenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizenmast, mizzen |
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patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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penman | (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: scribbler, scribe |
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penmanship | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, chirography |
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pyinma | (noun) relatively hard durable timber from the Queen's crape myrtle; light reddish brown, smooth and lustrous | - |
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rainmaker | (noun) American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain | - |
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(noun) executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm | - |
rainmaking | (noun) activity intended to produce rain | - |
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stationmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a railway station | Synonyms: station agent |
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trainman | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railroader, railway man, railwayman |
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trainmaster | (noun) a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard | Synonyms: train dispatcher, yardmaster |
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unmalleability | (noun) a lack of malleability | - |
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unmanageableness | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness |
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unmanliness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, womanishness |
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unmasking | (noun) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud | Synonyms: expose |
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