| telephonist | (noun) someone who helps callers get the person they are calling | Synonyms: switchboard operator, telephone operator |
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| telephony | (noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephone |
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| telephoto | (noun) a photograph made with a telephoto lens | Synonyms: telephotograph |
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| telephotograph | (noun) a photograph made with a telephoto lens | Synonyms: telephoto |
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| (noun) a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance | - |
| telephotography | (noun) photography using a telephoto lens | - |
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| (noun) transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance | - |
| teleport | (verb) transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another | - |
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| teleportation | (noun) a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another | - |
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| teleprinter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teletype machine, teletypewriter, telex, telex machine |
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| teleprocessing | (noun) data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities | Synonyms: distributed data processing, remote-access data processing |
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| telerobotics | (noun) the area of robotics that is concerned with the control of robots from a distance | - |
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| telescope | (noun) a magnifier of images of distant objects | Synonyms: scope |
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| (verb) make smaller or shorter | - |
| (verb) crush together or collapse | - |
| telescoped | (adjective) shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another | Synonyms: shortened |
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| telescopic | (adjective) having parts that slide one within another | - |
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| (adjective) capable of discerning distant objects | - |
| (adjective) visible only with a telescope | - |
| telescopically | (adverb) in a telescopic manner | - |
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| telescopy | (noun) the art of making and using telescopes | - |
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| teleselling | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, telemarketing |
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| telethermometer | (noun) a thermometer that registers the temperature at some distant point | - |
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| teletypewriter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine |
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| televangelism | (noun) evangelism at a distance by the use of television | - |
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| televangelist | (noun) an evangelist who conducts services on television | - |
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| televise | (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: telecast |
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| television | (noun) a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points | Synonyms: television system |
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| (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television receiver, television set, telly, tv, tv set |
| (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: telecasting, TV, video |
| televisuality | (noun) Quality of being of, relating to, or being suitable for broadcast by television. | - |
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| teleworking | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: telecommuting |
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| telex | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, teletypewriter, telex machine |
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| (verb) communicate by telex | - |
| telfer | (noun) one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage | Synonyms: telpher |
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| telferage | (noun) a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity | Synonyms: telpherage |
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| teliospore | (noun) a chlamydospore that develops in the last stage of the life cycle of the rust fungus | - |
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| tell | (verb) discern or comprehend | - |
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| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell apart |
| (verb) let something be known | - |
| (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recite, recount |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, order, say |
| (verb) give evidence | Synonyms: evidence |
| (verb) express in words | Synonyms: say, state |
| (verb) inform positively and with certainty and confidence | Synonyms: assure |
| teller | (noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money | Synonyms: bank clerk, cashier |
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| (noun) an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly) | Synonyms: vote counter |
| (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, storyteller |
| telling | (adjective) producing a strong effect | Synonyms: impressive |
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| (adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: revealing, telltale |
| (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: cogent, weighty |
| (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, notification |
| (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: recounting, relation |
| (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, tattle |
| tellingly | (adverb) in a telling manner | - |
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| telltale | (adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: revealing, telling |
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| (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale |
| tellurian | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: telluric, terrene, terrestrial |
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| (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, worldling |
| telluric | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: tellurian, terrene, terrestrial |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium | - |
| telluride | (noun) any binary compound of tellurium with other more electropositive elements | - |
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| tellurium | (noun) a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold | Synonyms: atomic number 52, Te |
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| telly | (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television, television receiver, television set, tv, tv set |
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| telocentric | (adjective) having the form of a straight rod because the centromere is in a terminal position | - |
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| telomerase | (noun) an enzyme in eukaryotic cells that can add telomeres to the ends of chromosomes after they divide | - |
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| telomere | (noun) either (free) end of a eukaryotic chromosome | - |
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| telophase | (noun) the final stage of mitosis | - |
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| (noun) the final stage of meiosis when the chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle | - |
| telpher | (noun) one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage | Synonyms: telfer |
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| telpherage | (noun) a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity | Synonyms: telferage |
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| telsontail | (noun) any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter | Synonyms: proturan |
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| temazepam | (noun) a frequently prescribed benzodiazepine (trade name Restoril); takes effect slowly and lasts long enough to help those people who wake up frequently during the night | Synonyms: Restoril |
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| temblor | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: earthquake, quake, seism |
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| temerarious | (adjective) presumptuously daring | Synonyms: daredevil |
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| temerity | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audaciousness, audacity |
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| temp | (noun) a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis | Synonyms: temporary, temporary worker |
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| temper | (noun) the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking | Synonyms: toughness |
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| (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness |
| (noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, humour, mood |
| (noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: irritation, pique |
| (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: moderate, mollify, season |
| (verb) adjust the pitch (of pianos) | - |
| (verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil | Synonyms: harden |
| (verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: chasten |
| (verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling | Synonyms: anneal, normalize |
| tempera | (noun) pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk | Synonyms: poster color, poster colour, poster paint |
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| temperament | (noun) an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys | - |
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| (noun) your usual mood | Synonyms: disposition |
| (noun) excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly) | - |
| temperamental | (adjective) relating to or caused by temperament | - |
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| (adjective) subject to sharply varying moods | Synonyms: moody |
| (adjective) likely to perform unpredictably | Synonyms: erratic |
| temperamentally | (adverb) by temperament | - |
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| temperance | (noun) abstaining from excess | Synonyms: sobriety |
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| (noun) the act of tempering | - |
| (noun) the trait of avoiding excesses | Synonyms: moderation |
| temperate | (adjective) not extreme in behavior | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate | - |
| (adjective) not extreme | Synonyms: moderate |
| temperately | (adverb) without extravagance | - |
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| (adverb) with restraint | - |
| (adverb) in a sparing manner; without overindulgence | Synonyms: abstemiously |
| temperateness | (noun) exhibiting restraint imposed on the self | Synonyms: self-restraint |
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| (noun) moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: fair weather, sunshine |
| temperature | (noun) the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) | - |
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| (noun) the somatic sensation of cold or heat | - |
| tempered | (adjective) adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element | - |
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| (adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | Synonyms: hardened, toughened, treated |
| tempering | (adjective) moderating by making more temperate | - |
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| (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: annealing |
| tempest | (noun) (literary) a violent wind | - |
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| (noun) a violent commotion or disturbance | Synonyms: storm |
| tempestuous | (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, furious, raging, wild |
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| (adjective) characterized by violent emotions or behavior | Synonyms: stormy |
| tempestuousness | (noun) a state of wild storminess | - |
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| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, ferment, fermentation, unrest |
| template | (noun) a model or standard for making comparisons | Synonyms: guide, templet |
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| temple | (noun) place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity | - |
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| (noun) an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes | - |
| (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: synagogue, tabernacle |
| (noun) the flat area on either side of the forehead | - |
| templet | (noun) a model or standard for making comparisons | Synonyms: guide, template |
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| tempo | (noun) the rate of some repeating event | Synonyms: pace |
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| (noun) (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played | Synonyms: pacing |
| temporal | (adjective) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world | Synonyms: secular, worldly |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit) | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or limited by time | - |
| (adjective) of this earth or world | - |
| (adjective) not eternal | - |
| (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: temporal role |
| temporalis | (noun) muscle extending from the temporal fossa to the coronoid process of the mandible; acts to raise the mandible and close the jaws | Synonyms: musculus temporalis, temporal muscle, temporalis muscle |
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| temporality | (noun) the worldly possessions of a church | Synonyms: temporalty |
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| temporalization | (noun) The act or process of placing or defining in time relations. | - |
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| temporally | (adverb) with regard to temporal order | - |
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| temporalty | (noun) in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy | Synonyms: laity |
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| (noun) the worldly possessions of a church | Synonyms: temporality |
| temporarily | (adverb) for a limited time only; not permanently | - |
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| temporariness | (noun) the property of lasting only a short time | - |
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| temporary | (adjective) not permanent; not lasting | Synonyms: impermanent |
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| (adjective) lacking continuity or regularity | Synonyms: irregular |
| (noun) a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis | Synonyms: temp, temporary worker |
| temporise | (verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time | Synonyms: temporize |
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| temporiser | (noun) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time | Synonyms: temporizer |
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| temporize | (verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time | Synonyms: temporise |
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| temporizer | (noun) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time | Synonyms: temporiser |
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| tempt | (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: charm, influence |
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| (verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: allure |
| (verb) try presumptuously | - |
| (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, lure |
| (verb) give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting | Synonyms: invite |
| (verb) try to seduce | - |
| temptable | (adjective) susceptible to temptation | - |
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| temptation | (noun) the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire | Synonyms: enticement |
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| (noun) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce | Synonyms: enticement |
| (noun) the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid | - |
| tempter | (noun) a person who tempts others | - |
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| tempting | (adjective) very pleasantly inviting | Synonyms: tantalising, tantalizing |
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| (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, beguiling, enticing |
| temptingly | (adverb) in a tempting seductive manner | Synonyms: seductively |
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| temptingness | (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allure, allurement |
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| temptress | (noun) a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive | Synonyms: Delilah, enchantress, femme fatale, siren |
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| tempura | (noun) vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried | - |
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| ten | (adjective) being one more than nine | Synonyms: 10, x |
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| (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face | Synonyms: ten-spot |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | Synonyms: 10, decade, tenner, X |
| tenability | (noun) the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person | Synonyms: reasonableness, tenableness |
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| tenable | (adjective) based on sound reasoning or evidence | Synonyms: well-founded |
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| tenableness | (noun) the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person | Synonyms: reasonableness, tenability |
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| tenacious | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, recollective, retentive |
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| (adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: coherent |
| (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, unyielding |
| tenaciously | (adverb) with obstinate determination | Synonyms: doggedly |
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| tenaciousness | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenacity |
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| tenacity | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness |
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| tenancy | (noun) an act of being a tenant or occupant | Synonyms: occupancy |
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