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phase
Noun
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A phase is stage in a process.
We will look at very basic ideas during the first phase of training.
As the war enters its final phase, the role of the UN will probably become more important.
Teenagers often go through a phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex.
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If things are in phase, they are working, moving, or changing together.
phase
Verb
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If you phase something in, you introduce it step by step.
Over the next few years, all farm support was slowly phased out.
locked
adjective
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Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.
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(Dublin) Very drunk.
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that has been locked (with a key)
communication
Noun
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Communications are the ways of sending and receiving information.
The army is setting up a new communications network to improve communication.
Each time he sent a communication to Bidault it was held up by d'Argenlieu.