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international
Adjective
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An international event, situation, idea, etc. includes two or more countries.
In soccer news, France beat Japan in international competition.
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An international student is a student from country A studying in country B.
The United States has more international students than any other country.
international
Noun
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An international is a game or contest between two or more countries.
child
Noun
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A child is a young person, usually older than a baby but younger than a teenager.
The children were playing in the park.
Most three-year-old children speak very well.
Even as a child of six, I knew what hard work was.
Taking care of young children is difficult work.
This kind of teaching is useful for all children, not just those children with learning disabilities.
We need to do a better job of educating our children.
We're collecting food for needy children.
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A child is the son or daughter of someone.
I am my mother's child in every way.
My eldest child is now a doctor.
I drove a motorcycle until my children were born.
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A child of a particular time, situation, or idea is a person who is strongly influenced by it.
As a child of the 90s, I grew up with computers.
There isn't actually that much anger among children of divorce.
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A child is the product or result of something.
This book is the child of an earlier generation of grammatical theory.
Anthropology is the child of Western colonialism.
The very idea of a garden is the child of water.
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If a woman is with child, she is pregnant.
She told no one about the sex, even when she realized she was with child.
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A child in a tree structure is piece of data, process or object with a role or position closer to the root.
development
Noun
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growth
The development of this story has been slow.
The organism has reached an important part in its development.
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Something which has developed
Our news team brings you the latest developments.
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A real estate development.
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Using new ideas for practical problems.
Our development department has created three new adhesives this year.
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The active placement of the pieces, or the process of doing it
White's development is good, but black's has been hampered by the pawn on e5.
centre
Noun
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The centre of something, is the place that is as far from its outside as possible.
The president and his problems continue to take centre stage in the news.
She placed a flowers at the center of the table and then hurried off.
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A centre is a building, area, or group of people with a particular purpose.
They have opened a large shopping centre in Taipei.
The team was staying at the US Olympic training centre.
Recently, Bahrain has become a major international banking centre.
Scientists at the Centre for Disease Control have found a new virus.
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The town centre is the place in the town where most of the shops are.
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In politics, the centre is the position that is not politically right or left.
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In sports, a centre is a player who plays in the middle of the field, usually an attacker.
centre
Verb
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If you centre something, you move it towards the centre.