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clause
Noun
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A clause is a section in a contract or other legal document.
The author's contract contained a clause giving him creative control over the films.
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A clause is a group of words that usually includes a subject and a predicate. In English, the subject usually comes before the predicate.
The last clause in the sentence is hard to understand without knowing some background.
DE
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noun
(= Delaware)
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
LA
Abbreviation
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Louisiana, a state of the United States of America.
I live in Baton Rouge, LA.
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Lao People's Democratic Republic, a member state of the United Nations.
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Lampung, a province of Indonesia.
LA
Initialism
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Los Angeles, a city in the state of California in the United States.
We went to LA for the summer.
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Lead arsenate, a pesticide introduced in the United States in 1892, mostly replaced by DDT in the late 1940s, and banned in 1988.
nation
Noun
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A nation is a country or a political entity.
Mexico is a nation of emigrants.
The Canadian government is working with the Mohawk nation.
plus
Preposition
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You use plus when you add numbers.
Two plus two is four. math(2 + 2 = 4)/math
The TV is $299 plus tax.
The margin of error is plus or minus one per cent.
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and also
The farm has over 5,000 horses, plus a few cats and dogs.
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You use plus after a number to mean "more than" or "over".
The country has a population of 3 million plus.
He got a B+ on his test.
plus
Noun
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A plus is a good thing.
I know you don't like it, but there are big pluses about living here.
On the plus side though, it is small and easy to use.
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A plus is a plus sign: math+/math
You don't have to write the plus in front of positive numbers, but always write the minus in front of negative numbers.
plus
Coordinator
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used before the last item in a list
I like singing, reading, and tennis plus playing soccer.
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used to show what happened after something else
The alarm went off plus I woke up.