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Commensurately

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In a directly proportional way “other costs will fall commensurately, and our profit would increase”

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DRM

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Digital Rights Management - accesa control technologies limiting use of digital content and devices after sale

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Dub

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Used mainly in journalism, to give someone or something a particular name or description

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Funky

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Unusual and showing a lot of imagination

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Hothouse

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A building made of glass that is used for growing plants that need a warm temperature

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Hurdle

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One of several problems that you must solve before you can do something successfully

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Lint

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Very small pieces of hair that sticks together or to the surface of something else

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In/out of the loop

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Belonging or not to a group that has information and makes decisions about something

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Alliteration

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Use of the same letter or sound at the beginnings of words in a sentence

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All-nighter

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Something that continues for the whole night

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Booth

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A small enclosed space where you can buy things, look at things or use a service

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Woo

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To try to persuade people to buy something from you, especially by saying and doing nice things “the company wooed him with offers”

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