Borrowing: alternatives and connections

The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special…

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of Deal

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The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.

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Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.

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The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being natura…

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See Pan, the masticatory.

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To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place o…

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To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place o…

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To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.

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To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.

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The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

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