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  • 41economy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Avoidance of waste Nouns 1. economy, thriftiness, frugality, thrift, austerity, care, husbandry, housekeeping, ménage, good housewifery, good management or administration, retrenchment, cutback, rollback …

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  • 42housework — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. cleaning, housewifery, housecleaning, spring cleaning, window washing, sweeping, cooking, baking, dusting, mopping, washing, laundering, bed making, sewing, ironing, mending; see also housekeeping , job 2 …

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  • 43Conduct — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Conduct >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 conduct conduct Sgm: N 1 behavior behavior Sgm: N 1 deportment deportment comportment Sgm: N 1 carriage carriage maintien demeanor guise bearing …

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  • 44Economy — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Economy >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 economy economy frugality Sgm: N 1 thrift thrift thriftiness Sgm: N 1 care care husbandry good housewifery savingness retrenchment GRP: N 2 …

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  • 45housework — housework, sociology of housework Until relatively recently, sociologists studied women as paid employees outside the home, or as wives and mothers but did not consider unpaid domestic labour (the various tasks of cleaning, cooking, and so forth …

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  • 46housewife — noun (plural housewives) 1》 a married woman whose main occupation is caring for her family and running the household. 2》 hʌzɪf a small case for needles, thread, and other small sewing items. Derivatives housewifely adjective housewifery noun haʊs …

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  • 47economics — n. 1. Science of wealth, method of developing public wealth, plutology, public economy, political economy. 2. Household management, household economy, housewifery …

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  • 48economy — n. 1. Frugality, thrift, thriftiness, good husbandry, good housewifery. 2. Arrangement, regulation, management, administration. 3. System, plan, dispensation, established order …

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  • 49retrenchment — n 1. reduction, reducing, decrease, decreasing, diminution, diminishing, subtracting, sub duction, subducting, loss, lessening, shortening, contraction, contracting, decline, cutback, rollback, decrement, decrescence, depression, abridgment,… …

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  • 50Tusser, Thomas — (1524? 1580)    Versifier on agriculture, was an Essex man. Having a good voice he was trained in music, and was a chorister in St. Paul s, and afterwards in Norwich Cathedral, and held the post of musician to Lord Paget. He tried farming at… …

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