Related Words:
- backup
collapse - (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device; "he made a backup in case the original was accidentally damaged or erased"
- an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage; "a traffic backup on the main street"; "he discovered a backup in the toilet" related words >
- about-face,
- about-turn,
- advocate,
- agent,
- alter ego,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- amicus curiae,
- analogy,
- attorney,
- back track,
- back trail,
- backing,
- backing off,
- backing out,
- backing up,
- backup man,
- champion,
- change,
- changeling,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- executive officer,
- exponent,
- fake,
- figurehead,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- imitation,
- lieutenant,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mock,
- next best thing,
- paranymph,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pleader,
- procurator,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reversing,
- reversion,
- right-about,
- right-about-face,
- ringer,
- second in command,
- second string,
- secondary,
- sign,
- spare,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- stopgap,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- swingaround,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- third string,
- token,
- turnabout,
- turnaround,
- understudy,
- utility,
- utility man,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vicar general,
- vicarious,
- vice,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- vicegerent,
- volte-face
- pinch bar
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- a lever with a pointed projection that serves as a fulcrum; used to roll heavy wheels related words >
- cheap
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- relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"
- embarrassingly stingy related words >
- Mickey Mouse,
- NG,
- at cost,
- avaricious,
- bad,
- base,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- beneath one,
- brummagem,
- budget,
- cheapjack,
- cheaply,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- close,
- closefisted,
- coarse,
- common,
- contemptible,
- crummy,
- debasing,
- degrading,
- demeaning,
- deplorable,
- despicable,
- disgraceful,
- easily,
- easy,
- economic,
- economical,
- economy,
- fake,
- flashy,
- for a song,
- fourth-class,
- frugal,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- gutter,
- hardfisted,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- illiberal,
- inexpensive,
- inexpensively,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- irregular,
- junk,
- junky,
- lousy,
- low,
- low-class,
- low-grade,
- low-priced,
- low-quality,
- low-test,
- manageable,
- mean,
- measly,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- miserly,
- moderate,
- modest,
- near,
- niggardly,
- no-account,
- no-good,
- nominal,
- not worth having,
- not worth mentioning,
- not worthwhile,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- on the cheap,
- opprobrious,
- ornery,
- outrageous,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- penny-pinching,
- penurious,
- petty,
- phony,
- pinchfisted,
- pinching,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poor,
- popular,
- punk,
- reasonable,
- reasonably,
- reduced,
- rotten,
- rubbishy,
- sad,
- save-all,
- scandalous,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- second-best,
- second-class,
- second-rate,
- seedy,
- sensible,
- shabby,
- sham,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sleazy,
- sorry,
- stingy,
- tacky,
- tatty,
- tawdry,
- terrible,
- third-class,
- third-rate,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- tightfisted,
- tinny,
- token,
- too bad,
- trashy,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- trumpery,
- two-bit,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- unbecoming,
- unexpensive,
- ungenerous,
- unworthy of one,
- valueless,
- vile,
- within means,
- worth the money,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrong
- substitute
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- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"
- be a substitute; "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"; "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"
- act as a substitute; "She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold" related words >
- additional,
- advocate,
- agent,
- alter ego,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- amicus curiae,
- analogy,
- another,
- attorney,
- backup,
- backup man,
- bit player,
- champion,
- change,
- change for,
- changeling,
- commute,
- comparison,
- compound for,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- delegate,
- deputy,
- dernier ressort,
- displace,
- double,
- double for,
- dub in,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- executive officer,
- expediency,
- expedient,
- exponent,
- extra,
- fake,
- false,
- father figure,
- father image,
- figurant,
- figurante,
- figurehead,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- give place to,
- imitation,
- lieutenant,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- make do with,
- make way for,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mock,
- mother figure,
- mother surrogate,
- mute,
- next best thing,
- offer in exchange,
- other,
- paranymph,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pinch-hit for,
- pleader,
- procurator,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- put up with,
- recourse,
- redeem,
- refuge,
- relay,
- relief,
- relieve,
- replace,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- resort,
- ring in,
- ringer,
- second,
- second in command,
- second string,
- secondary,
- sham,
- shift with,
- sign,
- simulated,
- spare,
- spares,
- spear-carrier,
- spurious,
- stand in for,
- stand-in,
- standby,
- stopgap,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute for,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- supe,
- super,
- supernumerary,
- superseder,
- supplant,
- supplanter,
- supplemental,
- supplementary,
- supply,
- support,
- supporting actor,
- supporting cast,
- surrogate,
- swap,
- switch,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- take in exchange,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- third string,
- token,
- trade,
- understudy,
- utility,
- utility man,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vicar general,
- vicarious,
- vice,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- vicegerent,
- walk-on,
- walking gentleman
- crossroads
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- a point where a choice must be made; "Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology" related words >
- abandon,
- act for,
- change places with,
- crowd out,
- cut out,
- desert,
- discard,
- displace,
- double for,
- fill in for,
- forsake,
- ghost,
- ghostwrite,
- oust,
- pinch-hit,
- reject,
- relieve,
- replace,
- represent,
- repudiate,
- spell,
- spell off,
- stand in for,
- subrogate,
- substitute for,
- succeed,
- supplant,
- swap places with,
- understudy for
- bind,
- broken fortune,
- close call,
- close shave,
- close squeak,
- closeness,
- clutch,
- complication,
- confinement,
- crowdedness,
- crunch,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- difficulties,
- distress,
- doghouse,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- genteel poverty,
- hair,
- hairbreadth,
- hairbreadth escape,
- hairsbreadth,
- hard pinch,
- hardship,
- hell to pay,
- hobble,
- hole,
- hot water,
- how-do-you-do,
- imbroglio,
- impecuniosity,
- impecuniousness,
- incapaciousness,
- incommodiousness,
- insolvency,
- jam,
- light purse,
- limitation,
- mess,
- mix,
- morass,
- narrow escape,
- narrow gauge,
- narrow means,
- narrow squeak,
- narrowness,
- near go,
- near miss,
- near thing,
- nearness,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- pickle,
- pigeonhole,
- pinch,
- playhouse,
- plight,
- poorness,
- poverty,
- predicament,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- restrictedness,
- restriction,
- scrape,
- slender means,
- slenderness,
- slough,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- strait,
- straitened circumstances,
- straitness,
- straits,
- strictness,
- swamp,
- tight spot,
- tightness,
- tightrope,
- tricky spot,
- unholy mess,
- unprosperousness,
- voluntary poverty,
- vows of poverty
- abstraction,
- annexation,
- appropriation,
- boosting,
- conversion,
- conveyance,
- embezzlement,
- filching,
- fraud,
- graft,
- larceny,
- liberation,
- lift,
- lifting,
- pilferage,
- pilfering,
- pinch,
- pinching,
- poaching,
- purloining,
- scrounging,
- shoplifting,
- snatching,
- sneak thievery,
- snitching,
- steal,
- stealage,
- stealing,
- swindle,
- swiping,
- theft,
- thieving,
- touch
- jimmy
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- a short crowbar; "in England they call a jimmy and jemmy" related words >
- cash in on
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- take advantage of or capitalize on related words >
- benefit from,
- capitalize on,
- carpe diem,
- cash in,
- clean up,
- clear,
- coin money,
- commercialize,
- exploit,
- gain by,
- gross,
- improve,
- improve the occasion,
- make a killing,
- make capital of,
- make hay,
- make money,
- make money by,
- net,
- not be behindhand,
- profit,
- profit by,
- put to advantage,
- realize,
- realize on,
- seize the day,
- take advantage of,
- trade on,
- turn a penny,
- turn to account,
- turn to profit,
- turn to use,
- use to advantage
- benefit from,
- carpe diem,
- cash in,
- cash in on,
- clean up,
- clear,
- coin money,
- commercialize,
- exploit,
- gain by,
- gross,
- improve,
- improve the occasion,
- make a killing,
- make capital of,
- make hay,
- make money,
- make money by,
- net,
- not be behindhand,
- profit,
- profit by,
- put to advantage,
- realize,
- realize on,
- seize the day,
- take advantage of,
- trade on,
- turn a penny,
- turn to account,
- turn to profit,
- turn to use,
- use to advantage
- selfish
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- concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman related words >
- acquisitive,
- ambitious for self,
- autistic,
- avaricious,
- careerist,
- covetous,
- egocentric,
- egocentristic,
- egoistic,
- egoistical,
- egomaniacal,
- egotistic,
- egotistical,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- grudging,
- illiberal,
- inconsiderate,
- individualistic,
- mean,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- narcissan,
- narcissine,
- narcissistic,
- narcistic,
- narrow,
- niggardly,
- parsimonious,
- penny-pinching,
- penurious,
- personalistic,
- possessive,
- privatistic,
- remote,
- self-absorbed,
- self-admiring,
- self-advancing,
- self-aggrandizing,
- self-besot,
- self-centered,
- self-concerned,
- self-considerative,
- self-contained,
- self-devoted,
- self-esteeming,
- self-indulgent,
- self-interested,
- self-jealous,
- self-loving,
- self-occupied,
- self-pleasing,
- self-seeking,
- self-serving,
- self-sufficient,
- stingy,
- thoughtless,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- uncharitable,
- ungenerous
- U-boat,
- U-boot,
- Unterseeboot,
- act for,
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- backup,
- change,
- change places with,
- changeling,
- collateral,
- common,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- crowd out,
- cut out,
- demeaning,
- dependent,
- deputy,
- disadvantaged,
- displace,
- double,
- double for,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill in for,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwrite,
- ghostwriter,
- humble,
- imitation,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- junior,
- less,
- lesser,
- locum tenens,
- low,
- lower,
- lowly,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- minor,
- modest,
- next best thing,
- ordinary,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pigboat,
- pinch hitter,
- pinch-hit,
- proxy,
- relief,
- relieve,
- replace,
- replacement,
- represent,
- representative,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- servile,
- sign,
- spares,
- spell,
- spell off,
- stand in for,
- stand-in,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- submarine,
- submersible,
- subordinate,
- subrogate,
- subservient,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitute for,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- succeed,
- supersede,
- superseder,
- supplant,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- swap places with,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- third rank,
- third string,
- token,
- tributary,
- under,
- underprivileged,
- understudy,
- understudy for,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- vulgar
- forehanded
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- having provided for the future related words >
- Scotch,
- anticipant,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- beforetime,
- bright and early,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- clairvoyant,
- conserving,
- divinatory,
- early,
- economic,
- economizing,
- farseeing,
- farsighted,
- forehand,
- foreknowing,
- foreseeing,
- foresighted,
- forethoughted,
- forethoughtful,
- frugal,
- in good time,
- intuitive,
- labor-saving,
- longsighted,
- money-saving,
- parsimonious,
- penny-wise,
- precautional,
- precautionary,
- precautious,
- precognitive,
- precognizant,
- prepared,
- prescient,
- prevenient,
- provident,
- providential,
- provisional,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- ready,
- sagacious,
- saving,
- scrimping,
- skimping,
- spare,
- sparing,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- unwasteful
- boutique,
- chain store,
- cheap as dirt,
- co-op,
- concession,
- cooperative,
- countinghouse,
- country store,
- department store,
- dirt cheap,
- discount house,
- discount store,
- dog-cheap,
- emporium,
- establishment,
- five-and-ten,
- general store,
- house,
- magasin,
- mail-order house,
- market,
- mart,
- post,
- retail store,
- salon,
- shop,
- sixpenny,
- store,
- supermarket,
- trading post,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- variety shop,
- variety store,
- warehouse,
- wareroom,
- wholesale house
- shilling
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- an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound related words >
- Deutschmark,
- Mark,
- Reichsmark,
- afghani,
- anna,
- baht,
- bawbee,
- cent,
- centavo,
- centime,
- conto,
- crown,
- dollar,
- dong,
- farthing,
- fiver,
- florin,
- fourpence,
- fourpenny,
- franc,
- groat,
- guilder,
- guinea,
- gulden,
- halfpenny,
- kip,
- kopeck,
- krona,
- krone,
- lira,
- mag,
- meg,
- milreis,
- mite,
- monkey,
- new pence,
- np,
- p,
- pence,
- penny,
- peseta,
- pie,
- piece of eight,
- pistareen,
- pony,
- pound,
- quid,
- rand,
- rial,
- ruble,
- rupee,
- shekel,
- sixpence,
- sol,
- sou,
- stiver,
- tenner,
- threepence,
- threepenny bit,
- thrippence,
- tuppence,
- twopence,
- won,
- yen
- bare cupboard,
- bare subsistence,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- begging,
- bumming,
- cadging,
- deprivation,
- destitution,
- empty purse,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- homelessness,
- impoverishment,
- indigence,
- lack,
- mendicity,
- moneylessness,
- mooching,
- necessitousness,
- necessity,
- need,
- neediness,
- panhandling,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- privation,
- scrounging,
- sponging,
- want
- inflationary spiral
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- an episode of inflation in which prices increase at an increasing rate and currency rapidly loses value related words >
- big price tag,
- bottom price,
- business index,
- ceiling,
- ceiling price,
- consumer price index,
- cost-of-living index,
- demand curve,
- extortionate price,
- famine price,
- fancy price,
- floor,
- floor price,
- good price,
- high price,
- hot economy,
- inflation,
- inflationary gap,
- inflationary pressure,
- inflationary prices,
- luxury price,
- pretty penny,
- price ceiling,
- price index,
- price level,
- rack rent,
- rising prices,
- scarcity price,
- soaring costs,
- spiraling prices,
- stiff price,
- top price
- avaricious
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- immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees" related words >
- a hog for,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- avid,
- bottomless,
- cheap,
- close,
- closefisted,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- devouring,
- esurient,
- gluttonous,
- gobbling,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- hardfisted,
- hoggish,
- illiberal,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- limitless,
- mean,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- near,
- niggardly,
- omnivorous,
- overgreedy,
- parsimonious,
- penny-pinching,
- penurious,
- piggish,
- pinchfisted,
- pinching,
- quenchless,
- rapacious,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- save-all,
- selfish,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- stingy,
- swinish,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- tightfisted,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- ungenerous,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- venal,
- voracious
- boutique,
- chain store,
- cheap as dirt,
- co-op,
- concession,
- cooperative,
- countinghouse,
- country store,
- department store,
- dime store,
- dime-store,
- dirt cheap,
- discount house,
- discount store,
- dog-cheap,
- emporium,
- establishment,
- general store,
- house,
- magasin,
- mail-order house,
- market,
- mart,
- post,
- retail store,
- salon,
- shop,
- sixpenny,
- store,
- supermarket,
- trading post,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- variety shop,
- variety store,
- warehouse,
- wareroom,
- wholesale house
- economic
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- using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness; "an economic use of home heating oil"; "a modern economical heating system"; "an economical use of her time"
- financially rewarding; "it was no longer economic to keep the factory open"; "have to keep prices high enough to make it economic to continue the service"
- concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money); "he wrote the book primarily for economic reasons"; "gave up the large house for economic reasons"; "in economic terms they are very privileged"
- of or relating to the science of economics; "economic theory"
- of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth; "economic growth"; "aspects of social, political, and economical life" related words >
- Scotch,
- budget,
- budgetary,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheap,
- cheeseparing,
- commercial,
- conserving,
- easy,
- economizing,
- economy,
- financial,
- fiscal,
- forehanded,
- frugal,
- inexpensive,
- labor-saving,
- low,
- low-priced,
- manageable,
- mercantile,
- moderate,
- modest,
- monetary,
- money-saving,
- nominal,
- parsimonious,
- pecuniary,
- penny-wise,
- politico-economic,
- productive,
- profitable,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- reasonable,
- remunerative,
- saving,
- scrimping,
- sensible,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- skimping,
- socio-economic,
- solvent,
- spare,
- sparing,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- token,
- trade,
- unexpensive,
- unwasteful,
- within means,
- worth the money
- NG,
- Pickwickian,
- absurd,
- base,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- common,
- contemptible,
- crummy,
- despicable,
- foolish,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- junk,
- junky,
- mean,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- no-account,
- no-good,
- nonsensical,
- not worth having,
- not worth mentioning,
- not worthwhile,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poor,
- poppycockish,
- rubbishy,
- sad,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- silly,
- skimble-skamble,
- sleazy,
- sorry,
- tatty,
- third-rate,
- trivial,
- trumpery,
- twaddling,
- twaddly,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- valueless,
- vile,
- worthless,
- wretched
- roll up
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- form a cylinder by rolling; "roll up a banner"
- form into a cylinder by rolling; "Roll up the cloth"
- arrive in a vehicle: "He rolled up in a black Mercedes"
- get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" related words >
- acquisition,
- appropriation,
- boosting,
- burglary,
- caper,
- claiming,
- embezzlement,
- filch,
- filching,
- grab,
- heist,
- hijacking,
- job,
- larceny,
- lift,
- lifting,
- pilferage,
- pilfering,
- pinch,
- pinching,
- possession,
- purloining,
- reception,
- rip-off,
- robbery,
- robbing,
- score,
- shoplifting,
- snitching,
- steal,
- stealage,
- stealing,
- swiping,
- taking,
- taking away,
- taking possession,
- thievery,
- thieving,
- touch
- supplant
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- take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school" related words >
- act for,
- bounce,
- cast out,
- change places with,
- crowd out,
- cut out,
- dismiss,
- displace,
- double for,
- eject,
- exchange,
- expel,
- fill in for,
- force out,
- ghost,
- ghostwrite,
- oust,
- pinch-hit,
- relieve,
- remove,
- replace,
- represent,
- spell,
- spell off,
- stand in for,
- step,
- subrogate,
- substitute,
- substitute for,
- succeed,
- supersede,
- swap places with,
- turn out,
- understudy for,
- unseat,
- usurp
- accost,
- advance,
- approach,
- appropinquate,
- approximate,
- bear down on,
- bear down upon,
- bear up,
- center,
- centralize,
- close,
- close in,
- close up,
- close with,
- come,
- come closer,
- come forward,
- come near,
- come on,
- come together,
- come up,
- concenter,
- concentralize,
- concentrate,
- confront,
- converge,
- draw near,
- draw nigh,
- encounter,
- fall in with,
- funnel,
- gain upon,
- intersect,
- meet,
- near,
- nip,
- pinch,
- proximate,
- run together,
- sidle up to,
- step up,
- taper,
- unite
- abstract,
- and,
- annex,
- appropriate,
- bag,
- boost,
- borrow,
- breeze,
- carry by storm,
- cop,
- crib,
- defraud,
- embezzle,
- extort,
- filch,
- hook,
- lift,
- make off with,
- nip,
- palm,
- pilfer,
- pinch,
- poach,
- purloin,
- romp home,
- run away with,
- rustle,
- scrounge,
- shoplift,
- snare,
- snatch,
- snitch,
- steal,
- swindle,
- swipe,
- take,
- take by storm,
- thieve,
- walk over,
- waltz off with,
- win going away,
- win hands down
- poverty
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- the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions related words >
- beggary,
- dearth,
- destitution,
- difficulty,
- distress,
- embarrassment,
- exigency,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- hardship,
- impecuniousness,
- impoverishment,
- inadequacy,
- indigence,
- insolvency,
- insufficiency,
- juncture,
- lack,
- mendicancy,
- necessity,
- need,
- neediness,
- pass,
- paucity,
- pauperism,
- pennilessness,
- penury,
- pinch,
- poorness,
- privation,
- rareness,
- rarity,
- scant,
- scant sufficiency,
- scantiness,
- scarceness,
- scarcity,
- shortage,
- sparseness,
- sparsity,
- strait,
- suffering,
- uncommonness,
- unprosperousness,
- want
- speak for
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- be a spokesperson for; "He represents the Government's position" related words >
- act for,
- advocate,
- allege in support,
- answer,
- answer for,
- appear for,
- argue for,
- assert,
- back up,
- champion,
- commission,
- contend for,
- counter,
- defend,
- deputize,
- espouse,
- front for,
- maintain,
- make a plea,
- pinch-hit for,
- plead for,
- rebut,
- refute,
- reply,
- represent,
- respond,
- riposte,
- say in defense,
- speak up for,
- stand in for,
- stand up for,
- stick up for,
- substitute for,
- support,
- sustain,
- understudy,
- uphold,
- urge reasons for
- climacteric
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- a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause related words >
- change of life,
- charged,
- clutch,
- convergence of events,
- crisis,
- critical,
- critical juncture,
- critical point,
- crossroads,
- crucial,
- crucial period,
- crunch,
- decisive,
- desperate,
- dire,
- emergency,
- emergent,
- exigency,
- exigent,
- extremity,
- grand climacteric,
- hinge,
- kairotic,
- loaded,
- menopause,
- pass,
- pinch,
- pivotal,
- pregnant,
- push,
- rub,
- strait,
- turn,
- turning point
- charley horse
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- a muscular cramp (especially in the thigh or calf) following vigorous exercise related words >
- acute pain,
- bite,
- boring pain,
- cramp,
- cramps,
- crick,
- darting pain,
- fulgurant pain,
- girdle pain,
- gnawing,
- griping,
- hitch,
- jumping pain,
- kink,
- lancinating pain,
- nip,
- pang,
- paroxysm,
- pinch,
- prick,
- seizure,
- sharp pain,
- shoot,
- shooting,
- shooting pain,
- spasm,
- stab,
- stabbing pain,
- stitch,
- thrill,
- throes,
- tormen,
- tweak,
- twinge,
- twitch,
- wrench
- ungenerous
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- lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup.; "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive" related words >
- authoritarian,
- avaricious,
- bigot,
- bigoted,
- borne,
- cheap,
- close,
- closed,
- closefisted,
- constricted,
- cramped,
- creedbound,
- deaf,
- deaf to reason,
- fanatical,
- hardfisted,
- hidebound,
- illiberal,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- insular,
- little,
- little-minded,
- mean,
- mean-minded,
- mean-spirited,
- mingy,
- miserly,
- narrow,
- narrow-hearted,
- narrow-minded,
- narrow-souled,
- narrow-spirited,
- near,
- nearsighted,
- niggardly,
- paltry,
- parochial,
- parsimonious,
- peanut,
- penny-pinching,
- penurious,
- petty,
- picayune,
- pinchfisted,
- pinching,
- provincial,
- puny,
- purblind,
- save-all,
- shortsighted,
- small,
- small-minded,
- stingy,
- straitlaced,
- stuffy,
- tight,
- tightfisted,
- trifling,
- unaltruistic,
- unbeneficent,
- unbenevolent,
- uncatholic,
- uncharitable,
- unchivalrous,
- ungiving,
- unliberal,
- unphilanthropic
- zero hour
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- the time set for the start of an action or operation related words >
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- charged moment,
- contingency,
- crisis,
- critical moment,
- crossroads,
- crucial moment,
- deadline,
- decisive moment,
- eleventh hour,
- emergency,
- exigency,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- moment of truth,
- nick of time,
- pass,
- pinch,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- strait,
- target date,
- target day,
- turning point
- accept obligation,
- accept the responsibility,
- act for,
- agree to,
- appear for,
- back up,
- be accepted for,
- be answerable for,
- be regarded as,
- be responsible for,
- be security for,
- be sponsor for,
- be taken as,
- bind,
- commission,
- commit,
- contract,
- count for,
- deputize,
- engage,
- front for,
- go as,
- go bail for,
- go for,
- have an understanding,
- obligate,
- pass as,
- pass for,
- pinch-hit for,
- represent,
- serve as,
- shake hands on,
- speak for,
- sponsor,
- stand in for,
- stand sponsor for,
- substitute for,
- take the blame,
- take the vows,
- understudy,
- undertake
- avarice
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- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- extreme greed for material wealth related words >
- acedia,
- acquisitiveness,
- anger,
- avariciousness,
- avaritia,
- avidity,
- avidness,
- cheapness,
- closefistedness,
- closeness,
- covetousness,
- craving,
- cupidity,
- deadly sin,
- desire,
- envy,
- frenzy of desire,
- frugality,
- fury of desire,
- gluttony,
- grasping,
- graspingness,
- greed,
- greediness,
- gula,
- hardfistedness,
- hoarding,
- hoggishness,
- illiberality,
- incontinence,
- inordinate desire,
- insatiability,
- insatiable desire,
- intemperateness,
- invidia,
- ira,
- itching palm,
- lust,
- luxuria,
- meanness,
- miserliness,
- nearness,
- niggardliness,
- overgreediness,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- penny-pinching,
- penuriousness,
- piggishness,
- pride,
- rapaciousness,
- rapacity,
- ravenousness,
- selfishness,
- sloth,
- sordidness,
- stinginess,
- superbia,
- swinishness,
- thrift,
- tight purse strings,
- tightfistedness,
- tightness,
- ungenerosity,
- voraciousness,
- voracity,
- wolfishness,
- wrath
- destitution
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- a state without friends or money or prospects related words >
- absence,
- adversity,
- bare cupboard,
- bare subsistence,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- dearth,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- deprivation,
- drought,
- empty purse,
- famine,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- homelessness,
- impecuniousness,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- incompleteness,
- indigence,
- lack,
- mendicancy,
- misfortune,
- moneylessness,
- necessitousness,
- necessity,
- need,
- neediness,
- omission,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- privation,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- starvation,
- want,
- wantage
- guinea
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- a republic in western Africa on the Atlantic; formerly a French colony; achieved independence from France in 1958
- a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings related words >
- bawbee,
- coin,
- crown,
- dollar,
- double eagle,
- doubloon,
- ducat,
- eagle,
- farthing,
- five-dollar gold piece,
- fiver,
- florin,
- fourpence,
- fourpenny,
- gold piece,
- groat,
- half crown,
- half dollar,
- half eagle,
- halfpenny,
- hard money,
- mag,
- meg,
- mite,
- moidore,
- monkey,
- napoleon,
- new pence,
- np,
- p,
- pence,
- penny,
- piece,
- piece of money,
- piece of silver,
- pony,
- pound,
- pound sovereign,
- quid,
- roll of coins,
- rouleau,
- shilling,
- sixpence,
- sovereign,
- specie,
- ten-dollar gold piece,
- tenner,
- threepence,
- threepenny bit,
- thrippence,
- tuppence,
- twenty-dollar gold piece,
- twopence
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