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A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

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Narrower term 27

Accountancy 76% connected

The art or employment of an accountant.

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Accounting 76% connected

of Account

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Appointment 76% connected

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

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Berth 76% connected

Convenient sea room.

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Calling 76% connected

of Call

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Career 76% connected

A race course: the ground run over.

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Catering 76% connected

of Cater

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Confectionery 76% connected

Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.

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Craft 76% connected

Strength; might; secret power.

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Employment 76% connected

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

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Farming 76% connected

of Farm

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Game 76% connected

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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Land 76% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Medium 76% connected

That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.

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Office 76% connected

That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the rel…

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Photography 76% connected

The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Post 76% connected

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

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Profession 76% connected

The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.

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Situation 76% connected

Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.

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Sport 76% connected

That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

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Stint 76% connected

Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc.…

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Trade 76% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

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Treadmill 76% connected

A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison d…

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Vocation 76% connected

A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Application 76% connected

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

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Cheat 76% connected

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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Chisel 76% connected

A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a m…

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Commit 76% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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Difficulty 76% connected

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a…

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Duty 76% connected

That which is due; payment.

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Employ 76% connected

To inclose; to infold.

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Engage 76% connected

To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

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Hire 76% connected

See Here, pron.

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Invest 76% connected

To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

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Obligation 76% connected

The act of obligating.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Product 76% connected

Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the product…

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Production 76% connected

The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

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Responsibility 76% connected

The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.

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Robbery 76% connected

The act or practice of robbing; theft.

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Unfortunate 76% connected

Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortu…

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Manner of action 1

Bull 76% connected

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

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Plunger 74% connected

One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.

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Plunger 74% connected

One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.

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Problematical 74% connected

Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful.

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Problematical 74% connected

Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful.

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Speculative 74% connected

Given to speculation; contemplative.

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Speculative 74% connected

Given to speculation; contemplative.

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Subcontract 74% connected

A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.

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Subcontract 74% connected

A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.

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Subcontractor 74% connected

One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.

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Subcontractor 74% connected

One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.

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Task 74% connected

Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.

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Task 74% connected

Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.

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Synonym 9

Business 92% connected

That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…

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Caper 92% connected

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

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Chore 92% connected

A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.

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Line 92% connected

Flax; linen.

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Occupation 92% connected

The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use;…

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Problem 92% connected

A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a q…

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Speculate 92% connected

To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

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Subcontract 92% connected

A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.

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Task 92% connected

Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.

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