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Jewish
Adjective
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If you are Jewish then you are a Jew.
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# If you are Jewish you believe or follow the religion called Judaism.
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#: He changed his religion and became Jewish.
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# If you are Jewish you are part of the group of people called Jews. To some people, the Jews are a race (or like a race); you are Jewish if your mother was Jewish.
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#: She is not religious but still calls herself Jewish because of her family.
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If something is Jewish it has to do with Judaism or with Jewish culture. This can also used for things that have to do with Jews.
Gefilte, a kind of fish, is a Jewish food.
The Talmud is a Jewish religious book.
Israel is a Jewish country.
Sternberg is a typically Jewish name.
national
Adjective
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If something is national it affects a whole nation or country.
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If something is national it has to do with a certain nation or country, or with people from that country.
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If a business is national it is found in all or most parts of a nation or country.
national
Noun
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A national is someone who is a citizen of their nation.
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The nationals is a tournament where people from all over the country come to compete in.
fund
Noun
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A fund is an amount of money kept for a specific purpose.
GM cannot afford to keep paying into the company pension fund.
Our fund-raising campaign has a target of $100,000.
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An organisation's funds are the money that it has.
The school is raising funds to pay for the new library.
The sports centre closed because of a lack of funds.
fund
Verb
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If you fund something, you give it money for its activities.
The project is jointly funded by the Government of Canada and the International Red Cross.
The university will no longer fund research into this drug.