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doggerel collapse: a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"

crippled collapse: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"

failed collapse: unable to meet financial obligations; "a failing business venture"

insolvent collapse: unable to meet or discharge financial obligations; "an insolvent person"; "an insolvent estate"

running mate collapse: a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices

abortive collapse: failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President"

officeholder collapse: someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust; "he is an officer of the court"; "the club elected its officers for the coming year"

public servant collapse: someone who holds a government position (either by election or appointment)

emasculate collapse: remove the testicles of a male animal; deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law"

scan collapse: the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars"; an image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan"; read metrically; "scan verses"; make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky"; move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image; examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"; examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"; conform to a metrical pattern

disabled collapse: people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped; "technology to help the elderly and the disabled"; markedly unable to function as a consequence of injury or illness; so badly injured as to be excused from continuing; "disabled veterans"

bootless collapse: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"

scalper collapse: someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost; "he got theater tickets through a scalper"

disable collapse: injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident"; make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer"

rhyme collapse: correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds); compose rhymes; be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme"

lame duck collapse: an elected official still in office but not slated to continue

speculator collapse: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains; someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts

plunger collapse: hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains

candidate collapse: someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)

alibi collapse: (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question; exonerate by means of an alibi

aspirant collapse: an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes"; desiring or striving for recognition or advancement

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