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freeing
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emancipation |
| Synonyms: | clearing, deliverance, delivery, discharging, disentangling, extrication, granting freedom, liberation, loosening, loosing, manumission, pardoning, releasing, reprieve, rescuing, restoration, salvation, saving, setting free, unbinding, unchaining, unfettering, unlocking, untying |
| Main Entry: | frugality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | rescue |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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bailed out, expendible, extricable, reclaimed, redeemable, rescuable, retrieved, salvaged, saved, soterial
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| Concept: | Means. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; actual subservience |
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means, resources, wherewithal, ways and means; capital (money); revenue; stock in trade; provision; a shot in the locker; appliances (machinery); means and appliances; conveniences; cards to play; expedients (measures); two strings to one's bow; sheet anchor (safety); aid; medium..
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find means, have means, possess means
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by means of, with; by what means, by all means, by any means, by some means; wherewith, herewith, therewith; wherewithal., how (in what manner); through (by the instrumentality of); with the aid of, by the aid of (assistance) [more]; by the agency of.
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| Concept: | Store. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; actual subservience |
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stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow., stock in trade, supply; heap (collection); treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche., crop, harvest, mow, vintage., store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay (provision)., storehouse, storeroom, storecloset; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory; repertorium; promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine; buttery, larder, spence; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom; thesaurus; bank (treasury); armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery, menagerie., reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond; gasometer., budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio; coffer (receptacle)., conservation; storing; storage.
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store; put by, lay by, set by; stow away; set apart, lay apart; store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up; bank; cache; accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save., reserve; keep back, hold back; husband, husband one's resources., deposit; stow, stack, load; harvest; heap, collect; lay in store.
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adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
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| Concept: | Deliverance. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; contingent subservience |
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deliverance, extrication, rescue; reprieve, reprieval; respite; liberation; emancipation; redemption, salvation; riddance; gaol delivery; redeemableness.
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deliver, extricate, rescue, save, emancipate, redeem, ransom; bring off, bring through; tirer d'affaire, get the wheel out of the rut, snatch from the jaws of death, come to the rescue; rid; retrieve (restore); be rid of, get rid of.
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saved, extricable, redeemable, rescuable.
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| Concept: | Preservation. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; contingent subservience |
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preservation; safe-keeping; conservation (storage); maintenance, support, susteritation, conservatism; vis conservatrix; salvation (deliverance)., [Means of preservation] prophylaxis; preserver, preservative; hygiastics, hygiantics; cover, drugget; cordon sanitaire; canning; ensilage; tinned goods, canned goods., [Superstitious remedies] snake oil, cure-all; charm.
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preserve, maintain, keep, sustain, support, hold; keep up, keep alive; refrigerate, keep on ice; not willingly let die; bank up; nurse; save, rescue; be safe, make safe [more]; take care of (care); guard (defend)., stare super antiquas vias [Bacon]; hold one's own; hold one's ground, stand one's ground (resist) [more]., embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize, bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband (store).
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preserving; conservative; prophylactic; preservatory, preservative; hygienic., preserved; unimpaired, unbroken, uninjured, unhurt, unsinged, unmarred; safe, safe and sound; intact, with a whole skin.
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nolumus leges Angliae mutari.
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