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Definition: (adjective) unenthusiastic, routine, or mechanical.
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NOUN:
The dried stalks and leaves of a cereal crop, used as fodder after the grain has been harvested.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, provisions, from Norman French estovers, from Old French estovier, to be necessary, from Latin est opus, it is necessary : est, third person sing. present tense of esse, to be ; see essence + opus, need, work ; see opus


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