| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Usually extensive real estate: acre (often used in plural), estate, property. See OWNED. 2. An organized geopolitical unit: body politic, country, nation, polity, state. See POLITICS, TERRITORY. | | VERB: | 1. Informal. To come into possession of: acquire, come by, gain, get, obtain, procure, secure, win. Informal : pick up. See GET. 2. To come ashore from a seacraft: debark, disembark. See MOVE. 3. To come to rest on the ground: alight1, light2, set down, settle, touch down. See MOVE.
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