bagman | (noun) a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money | - |
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(noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
gagman | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagster, gagwriter |
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(noun) a comedian who uses gags | Synonyms: standup comedian |
magma | (noun) molten rock in the earth's crust | - |
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phragmacone | (noun) the thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite | Synonyms: phragmocone |
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pragmatic | (adjective) of or concerning the theory of pragmatism | Synonyms: pragmatical |
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(adjective) concerned with practical matters | Synonyms: matter-of-fact, pragmatical |
(adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, hardheaded, practical |
(noun) an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land | Synonyms: pragmatic sanction |
pragmatical | (adjective) of or concerning the theory of pragmatism | Synonyms: pragmatic |
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(adjective) concerned with practical matters | Synonyms: matter-of-fact, pragmatic |
pragmatically | (adverb) in a practical manner, as opposed to theoretically or idealistically | - |
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pragmatics | (noun) the study of language use | - |
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pragmatism | (noun) the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth | Synonyms: realism |
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(noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value | - |
pragmatist | (noun) a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions | - |
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(noun) an adherent of philosophical pragmatism | - |
swagman | (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swagger, swaggie |
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syntagma | (noun) a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit | Synonyms: syntagm |
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syntagmatic | (adjective) related as members of a syntagma | - |
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