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consensus
Noun
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If there is consensus among people, they generally agree on something.
There was broad consensus that the first project had failed.
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Average projected value, as in the finance term consensus forecast.
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A way to make decisions; consensus says that people agree to an action if no one opposes it.
AD
Abbreviation
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AD is short for the Latin words anno Domini, which means in the year of our Lord. You use AD to refer to a date after the year in which Jesus Christ is believed to have been born.
The Romans started building the Colosseum in 70 AD.
ad
Noun
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A short way of saying advertisement.
I saw an ad in the newspaper for a job at the factory.
idem
adjective
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The same.