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mercenary collapse: a person hired to fight for another country than their own

settled collapse: not changeable; "a period of settled weather"; established in a desired position or place; not moving about; "nomads...absorbed among the settled people"; "settled areas"; "I don't feel entirely settled here"; "the advent of settled civilization"; established or decided beyond dispute or doubt; "with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night"

get through collapse: finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment"; succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems; "We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister"

get rid of collapse: dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"

leap year collapse: in the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by 4 except centenary years not divisible by 400

memory collapse: an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"; the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger"; the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father"; something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost"; the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes; "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory"

coffee break collapse: a snack taken during a break in the work day; "a ten-minute coffee break"; "the British have tea breaks"

deadlock collapse: a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations"

centennial collapse: the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it); of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years; "centennial celebration"

delete collapse: remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

checkmate collapse: a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king; complete victory; place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"

biennial collapse: a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season; having a life cycle lasting two seasons; "a biennial life cycle"; "parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals"; occurring every second year; "they met at biennial conventions"

rite collapse: an established ceremony prescribed by a religion; "the rite of baptism"

interim collapse: the time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"; serving during an intermediate interval of time; "an interim agreement"

salvo collapse: a sudden outburst of cheers; "there was a salvo of approval"; an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs

brake collapse: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle; an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant; any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants; cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"; stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"

intermittence collapse: the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping

intermezzo collapse: a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera; a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony

cut short collapse: interrupt before its natural or planned end; "We had to cut short our vacation"; cause to end earlier than intended; "The spontaneous applause cut the singer short"

wipe out collapse: eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"

ceremony collapse: any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way; "the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine"; "he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball"; "he disposed of it without ceremony"; the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony"; a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"

receipt collapse: an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made; mark or stamp as paid

respite collapse: a pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate"; a pause for relaxation; "people actually accomplish more when they take time for short rests"

let collapse: a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again; leave unchanged; "let it be"; actively cause something to happen; "I let it be known that I was not interested"; make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off"

remission collapse: (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court); an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission"

slaughter collapse: the killing of animals (as for food); the savage and excessive killing of many people

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