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  • microsoft exchange — (messaging)   Microsoft's messaging and enterprise collaboration server. Exchange's primary role is as an electronic mail message store but it can also store calendars, task lists, contact details, and other data.
  • morning-after pill — a contraceptive pill containing only an estrogen and used by women within a few hours after sexual intercourse.
  • of your own making — If you say that something such as a problem you have is of your own making, you mean you have caused or created it yourself.
  • off-street parking — spaces for cars located on private property rather than on a public street
  • office of readings — the first of the canonical hours; matins
  • offset lithography — offset (def 6).
  • operating software — software used in the operation of a computer system, typically by performing such tasks as memory allocation, job scheduling, and input/output control
  • order of magnitude — You can use order of magnitude when you are giving an approximate idea of the amount or importance of something.
  • peacekeeping force — a force designated to the maintenance of peace, esp the prevention of further fighting between hostile forces in an area
  • people trafficking — the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally
  • percussion flaking — a method of forming a flint tool by striking flakes from a stone core with another stone or a piece of bone or wood.
  • population figures — population totals; statistics relating to the size of populations
  • primate of england — a title of the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • purchasing officer — the member of staff in an organization who is responsible for buying goods or products
  • radius of gyration — the distance from an axis at which the mass of a body may be assumed to be concentrated and at which the moment of inertia will be equal to the moment of inertia of the actual mass about the axis, equal to the square root of the quotient of the moment of inertia and the mass.
  • range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
  • refrigerated lorry — a lorry which is chilled in the back as for storing food
  • safety regulations — regulations or rules that are put in place to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
  • seafloor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
  • secondary offering — the sale of a large block of outstanding stock off the floor of an exchange, usually by a major stockholder.
  • self-glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • self-gratification — the act of pleasing or satisfying oneself, especially the gratifying of one's own impulses, needs, or desires.
  • self-interrogation — the act of interrogating; questioning.
  • self-raising flour — flour with baking powder
  • skin friction drag — aerodynamic resistance or drag due to the contact of moving air with the surface of an airplane, a glider, etc.
  • standard of living — a grade or level of subsistence and comfort in everyday life enjoyed by a community, class, or individual: The well-educated generally have a high standard of living.
  • stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
  • strait of magellan — a strait between the mainland of S South America and Tierra del Fuego, linking the S Pacific with the S Atlantic. Length: 600 km (370 miles). Width: up to 32 km (20 miles)
  • sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • to agree to differ — If two people who are arguing about something agree to disagree or agree to differ, they decide to stop arguing because neither of them is going to change their opinion.
  • to-ing and fro-ing — If you say that there is a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, you mean that the same actions or movements or the same arguments are being repeated many times.
  • transmogrification — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
  • treaty of waitangi — a treaty signed in 1840 by Māori chiefs and a representative of the British Government, providing the basis for the British annexation of New Zealand
  • triangle of forces — a triangle whose sides represent the magnitudes and directions of three forces whose resultant is zero and which are therefore in equilibrium
  • two-tier financing — a form of lending in which the debt is divided into two separate parts, as in a first and second mortgage held by an individual on a single property
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • wildlife programme — (esp on television) a documentary whose subject is wild animals in their natural habitat or undomesticated fauna and flora generally
  • wingback formation — single wingback formation.
  • wrongful dismissal — the act of making someone redundant for reasons which are illegal or unjust
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