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meeting
Noun
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A meeting is when a group of people come together to talk about something important.
The meeting will be in the green room after lunch. I hope you'll be there.
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
humane
Adjective
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If a person is humane, they show concern for the pain or suffering of other living things.
It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.
market
Noun
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A market is a place where many people come to buy and sell things.
It's time to take the cows to the market.
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The market is the stock market.
The market rose Tuesday on good results from the banking sector.
Cable stocks have lost an estimated market value of $ 6 to $ 8 billion.
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A market is a group of people or businesses that might buy goods or services.
The government is trying to help farmers find a new market for their grain.
The financial and oil markets continued to react negatively to the news from the war.
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A market is the total amount or value of a particular kind of goods or services bought or sold.
The company already has a 54-percent share of the commercial jet market.
market
Verb
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If you market something, you make it available for sale and you try to get people to buy it.
Manufacturers who spend millions to develop new drugs heavily market their products.