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  • 81Anjou — For other uses, see Anjou (disambiguation). Anjou Flag …

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  • 82New product development — In business and engineering, new product development (NPD) is the term used to describe the complete process of bringing a new product to market. A product is a set of benefits offered for exchange and can be tangible (that is, something physical …

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  • 83Ethnomethodology — What is ethnomethodologyEthnomethodology is a sociological discipline which studies the ways in which people make sense of their world, display this understanding to others, and produce the mutually shared social order in which they live. The… …

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  • 84Piracha — Paracha ( ur. پراچہ) (Also rendered as Peracha,Piracha) is a family name in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.LanguageMost Pirachas today speak Hindko and Pothohari dialects of Punjabi. Those settled in the North West Frontier Province… …

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  • 85purpresture — /peuhr pres cheuhr/, n. Law. the wrongful enclosure of or intrusion upon lands, waters, or other property rightfully belonging to the public at large. [1150 1200; ME < OF pourpres(t)ure, porpresure enclosure, occupied space, equiv. to pourprise,&#8230; …

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  • 86Joshua 8 — 1 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land: 2 And thou shalt do to&#8230; …

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  • 87encroach — [en krōch′, inkrōch′] vi. [ME encrochen &LT; OFr encrochier, to seize upon, take &LT; en , in + croc, croche, a hook: see CROSIER] 1. to trespass or intrude (on or upon the rights, property, etc. of another), esp. in a gradual or sneaking way 2.&#8230; …

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  • 88Catalepsis — Catalepsy Cat a*lep sy, ||Catalepsis Cat a*lep sis, n. [NL. catalepsis, fr. Gr. ? a seizure, fr. ? to seize upon; kata down + ? to take, seize.] (Med.) A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that …

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  • 89Catalepsy — Cat a*lep sy, ||Catalepsis Cat a*lep sis, n. [NL. catalepsis, fr. Gr. ? a seizure, fr. ? to seize upon; kata down + ? to take, seize.] (Med.) A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be&#8230; …

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  • 90tackle — I. n. 1. Pulley. 2. Equipment, gear, rigging, tackling, furniture, implements, apparatus. 3. Harness, tackling. 4. Weapons, instruments of action. II. v. a. (Local and Colloq.) 1. Harness …

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