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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A determination of location
  • A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
  • A prearrangement of the outcome of a competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
  • A repair or corrective action.
  • informal A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.

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Verb:

  • To prepare.
  • transitive To map a (point or subset) to itself.
  • To attach, to become attached; to affix.
  • To avenge, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
  • To become acutely focused or obsessed.
  • To make a business of getting paid to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortionSutherland, Edwin H. (ed) (1937): The Professional Thief: by a Professional Thief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Reprinted by various publishers in subsequent decades.]
  • To make a contest, vote, or gamble unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins.
  • To mend, to repair.
  • To purposefully stare at someone.
  • US To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

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