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heraldry collapse: emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms; the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies

disbar collapse: remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action; "The corrupt lawyer was disbarred"

superannuate collapse: retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity; become obsolete; declare to be obsolete; retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability

floater collapse: an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location; an object that floats or is capable of floating; a swimmer who floats in the water; a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election; an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed; a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)

obstacle collapse: an obstruction that stands in the way (and must be removed or surmounted or circumvented); something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted; "lack of imagination is an obstacle to one's advancement"; "the poverty of a district is an obstacle to good education"; "the filibuster was a major obstruction to the success of their plan"

livery collapse: the care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay; uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs

mandarin collapse: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China; a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China; a high public official of imperial China; any high government official or bureaucrat; a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group; shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia

gallows collapse: an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging

hot seat collapse: a difficult position where you are subjected to stress and criticism

hallucination collapse: an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode; "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination"; illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder

graft collapse: the act of grafting something onto something else; (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient; cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"

shut off collapse: block off the passage through; "We shut off the valve"; isolate or separate; "She was shut off from the friends"; stem the flow of; "shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation"

vignette collapse: a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books); a photograph whose edges shade off gradually

poll collapse: the counting of votes (as in an election); a tame parrot; the part of the head between the ears; an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people; convert into a pollard; "pollard trees"; get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions; get the votes of; vote in an election at a polling station

thistle collapse: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves

gas chamber collapse: instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals

oust collapse: remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"; remove and replace; "The word processor has ousted the typewriter"

caddie collapse: an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player; act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player

deterrent collapse: tending to deter; "the deterrent effects of high prices"

colonization collapse: the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"

mantle collapse: (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell; the cloak as a symbol of authority; "place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders"; the layer of the earth between the crust and the core; United States baseball player (1931-1997); cover like a mantle; "The ivy mantles the building"; spread over a surface, like a mantle

pork barrel collapse: a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

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