| APPORTIONMENT | • apportionment n. The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned. • apportionment n. (US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
 • apportionment n. (US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.
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| BOOTSTRAPPING | • bootstrapping v. Present participle of bootstrap. • bootstrapping n. The process by which something is bootstrapped.
 • BOOTSTRAP v. to prepare (a computer) for operation by causing an operating system to be loaded into its memory.
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| INOPPORTUNITY | • inopportunity n. (Dated) Lack of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience. • INOPPORTUNITY n. the state of being inopportune.
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| OPPORTUNISTIC | • opportunistic adj. Taking advantage of situations that arise. • opportunistic adj. Taking advantage of situations to advance one’s own interests without regard for moral principles.
 • OPPORTUNISTIC adj. taking advantage of opportunities as they arise.
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| OPPORTUNITIES | • opportunities n. Plural of opportunity. • OPPORTUNITY n. a favorable juncture of circumstances.
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| OPPOSITIONIST | • oppositionist n. A person who opposes; especially a member of an official opposition. • OPPOSITIONIST n. a member of an opposition.
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| OUTPOPULATING | • outpopulating v. Present participle of outpopulate. • OUTPOPULATE v. to surpass in population.
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| PEPTONISATION | • peptonisation n. Alternative form of peptonization. • PEPTONISATION n. the process of peptonising, also PEPTONIZATION.
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| PEPTONIZATION | • peptonization n. (Physiology, biochemistry) The conversion of a protein into peptones under the influence of the enzyme pepsin. • PEPTONIZATION n. the process of peptonizing, also PEPTONISATION.
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| POSTPOSITIONS | • postpositions n. Plural of postposition. • POSTPOSITION n. the placing of a grammatical element after a word to which it is primarily related in a sentence.
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| PROPITIATIONS | • propitiations n. Plural of propitiation. • PROPITIATION n. the act of propitiating.
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| PROPORTIONATE | • proportionate adj. In proportion; proportional; commensurable. • proportionate adj. Harmonious and symmetrical.
 • proportionate v. (Transitive) To make proportionate.
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