| acephaly | (noun) absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters) | Synonyms: acephalia, acephalism |
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| acrocephaly | (noun) a congenital abnormality of the skull; the top of the skull assumes a cone shape | Synonyms: oxycephaly |
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| acromegaly | (noun) enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor) | Synonyms: acromegalia |
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| adactyly | (noun) congenital absence of fingers and/or toes | Synonyms: adactylia, adactylism |
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| adenomegaly | (noun) gland enlargement | - |
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| aerophilately | (noun) the collection and study of airmail stamps | - |
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| alderfly | (noun) dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae | Synonyms: alder fly, Sialis lutaria |
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| ally | (noun) a friendly nation | - |
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| (noun) an associate who provides cooperation or assistance | Synonyms: friend |
| amphiboly | (noun) an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes | Synonyms: amphibology |
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| anencephaly | (noun) a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres | Synonyms: anencephalia |
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| anomaly | (noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun) | - |
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| (noun) a person who is unusual | Synonyms: unusual person |
| (noun) deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule | Synonyms: anomalousness |
| assembly | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, gathering |
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| (noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: fabrication |
| (noun) a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit | - |
| (noun) a public facility to meet for open discussion | Synonyms: forum, meeting place |
| (noun) a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together | - |
| (noun) a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose | - |
| belly | (noun) the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish | - |
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| (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, stomach, venter |
| (noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: paunch |
| (noun) the hollow inside of something | - |
| (noun) a part that bulges deeply | - |
| bialy | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialystoker |
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| billy | (noun) male goat | Synonyms: billy goat, he-goat |
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| (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon |
| bimonthly | (noun) a periodical that is published twice a month or every two months (either 24 or 6 issues per year) | - |
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| biweekly | (noun) a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year) | - |
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| blackfly | (noun) small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals | Synonyms: black fly, buffalo gnat |
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| (noun) blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets | Synonyms: Aphis fabae, bean aphid |
| blolly | (noun) evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berries | Synonyms: Chiococca alba, West Indian snowberry |
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| blowfly | (noun) large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds | Synonyms: blow fly |
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| botfly | (noun) stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals | - |
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| brachycephaly | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephalism |
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| brachydactyly | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactylia |
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| brolly | (noun) colloquial terms for an umbrella | Synonyms: gamp |
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| bubbly | (noun) a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there | Synonyms: champagne |
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| bully | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| (noun) a hired thug | - |
| butterfly | (noun) a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down | Synonyms: butterfly stroke |
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| (noun) diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings | - |
| cardiomegaly | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the heart | Synonyms: enlarged heart, megacardia, megalocardia |
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| catchfly | (noun) mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone | Synonyms: lychnis |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Silene | Synonyms: campion, silene |
| chalcidfly | (noun) any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects | Synonyms: chalcid, chalcid fly, chalcid wasp |
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| chilly | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili, chili pepper, chilli |
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| clinocephaly | (noun) a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) | Synonyms: clinocephalism |
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| clinodactyly | (noun) a congenital defect in which one or more toes or fingers are abnormally positioned | - |
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| contumely | (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, insult, revilement, vilification |
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| cooly | (noun) (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer | Synonyms: coolie |
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| dactylomegaly | (noun) abnormally large fingers or toes | - |
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| daily | (noun) a newspaper that is published every day | - |
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| damselfly | (noun) slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest | - |
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| dayfly | (noun) slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days | Synonyms: mayfly, shadfly |
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| daylily | (noun) any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day | Synonyms: day lily |
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| diddly | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| disassembly | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: dismantlement, dismantling |
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| dobsonfly | (noun) large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait | Synonyms: Corydalus cornutus, dobson, dobson fly |
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| doily | (noun) a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl | Synonyms: doyley, doyly |
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| dolichocephaly | (noun) the quality of being dolichocephalic | Synonyms: dolichocephalism |
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| dolly | (noun) a small replica of a person; used as a toy | Synonyms: doll |
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| (noun) conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects | - |
| (noun) conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted | - |
| doyly | (noun) a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl | Synonyms: doily, doyley |
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| dragonfly | (noun) slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. | Synonyms: darning needle, devil's darning needle, mosquito hawk, sewing needle, skeeter hawk, snake doctor, snake feeder |
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| easterly | (noun) a wind from the east | Synonyms: east wind, easter |
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| ectrodactyly | (noun) congenital abnormality involving the absence of some fingers or toes | - |
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| elderly | (noun) people who are old collectively | Synonyms: aged |
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| family | (noun) primary social group; parents and children | Synonyms: family unit |
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| (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
| (noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: home, house, household, menage |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera | - |
| (noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: category, class |
| (noun) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities | Synonyms: fellowship |
| (noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, mob, syndicate |
| (noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: kin, kinsperson |
| felly | (noun) rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted | Synonyms: felloe |
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| filly | (noun) a young female horse under the age of four | - |
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| firefly | (noun) nocturnal beetle common in warm regions having luminescent abdominal organs | Synonyms: lightning bug |
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| (noun) tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots | Synonyms: fire beetle, Pyrophorus noctiluca |
| fly | (noun) (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air | Synonyms: fly ball |
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| (noun) two-winged insects characterized by active flight | - |
| (noun) an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth | Synonyms: fly front |
| (noun) flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent | Synonyms: fly sheet, rainfly, tent-fly, tent flap |
| (noun) fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect | - |
| folly | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, foolery, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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| (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity |
| (noun) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly | Synonyms: foolishness, unwiseness |
| (noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, foolishness, madness |
| friendly | (noun) troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces | - |
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| gadfly | (noun) any of various large flies that annoy livestock | - |
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| (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: blighter, cuss, pest, pesterer |
| gallfly | (noun) any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed | - |
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| (noun) small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants | Synonyms: cynipid gall wasp, cynipid wasp, gall wasp |
| (noun) fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants | Synonyms: gall gnat, gall midge |
| gelly | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelignite |
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| googly | (noun) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way | Synonyms: bosie, bosie ball, wrong 'un |
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| greenfly | (noun) greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants | - |
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| grizzly | (noun) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America | Synonyms: grizzly bear, silver-tip, silvertip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis |
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| gully | (noun) deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour) | - |
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| hemimetaboly | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetabolism, hemimetamorphosis |
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| hepatomegaly | (noun) abnormal enlargement of the liver | Synonyms: megalohepatia |
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| heterometaboly | (noun) development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity | Synonyms: heterometabolism |
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| hillbilly | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: bushwhacker |
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| holly | (noun) any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges | - |
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| holometaboly | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometabolism |
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| holy | (noun) a sacred place of pilgrimage | Synonyms: holy place, sanctum |
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| homily | (noun) a sermon on a moral or religious topic | Synonyms: preachment |
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| horsefly | (noun) large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | Synonyms: cleg, clegg, horse fly |
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| (noun) winged fly parasitic on horses | Synonyms: Hippobosca equina, horse tick |
| housefly | (noun) common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases | Synonyms: house fly, Musca domestica |
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| hydrocephaly | (noun) an abnormal condition in which cerebrospinal fluid collects in the ventricles of the brain; in infants it can cause abnormally rapid growth of the head and bulging fontanelles and a small face; in adults the symptoms are primarily neurological | Synonyms: hydrocephalus |
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| hyperdactyly | (noun) birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes | Synonyms: polydactyly |
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| jelly | (noun) a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit | - |
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| (noun) an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods | Synonyms: gelatin |
| (noun) any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin | - |
| jolly | (noun) a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work | Synonyms: jolly boat |
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| (noun) a happy party | - |
| lally | (noun) support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete | Synonyms: lally column |
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| lily | (noun) any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers | - |
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| loblolly | (noun) thick gruel | - |
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| lolly | (noun) ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick | Synonyms: ice lolly, lollipop, popsicle |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| lovely | (noun) a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model | Synonyms: cover girl, pin-up |
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| macrencephaly | (noun) an abnormally large braincase | - |
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| macrocephaly | (noun) an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical | Synonyms: megacephaly, megalocephaly |
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| malacophily | (noun) (botany) pollination of plants by snails. | - |
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| mayfly | (noun) slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days | Synonyms: dayfly, shadfly |
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| medfly | (noun) small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit | Synonyms: Ceratitis capitata, Mediterranean fruit fly |
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| megacephaly | (noun) an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical | Synonyms: macrocephaly, megalocephaly |
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| megalocephaly | (noun) an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical | Synonyms: macrocephaly, megacephaly |
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| melancholy | (noun) a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy | Synonyms: black bile |
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| (noun) a feeling of thoughtful sadness | - |
| (noun) a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed | - |
| microcephaly | (noun) an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain | Synonyms: microcephalus, nanocephaly |
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| molly | (noun) popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: mollie |
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| monopoly | (noun) (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller | - |
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| (noun) exclusive control or possession of something | - |
| monthly | (noun) a periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year) | - |
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| nanocephaly | (noun) an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain | Synonyms: microcephalus, microcephaly |
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| northerly | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: boreas, north wind, norther |
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| oligodactyly | (noun) congenital condition in which some fingers or toes are missing | - |
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| oligopoly | (noun) (economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors | - |
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