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  • medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
  • menai strait — a strait between Anglesey Island and the mainland of NW Wales. 14 miles (23 km) long.
  • message unit — a measure of the duration of and distance covered by local telephone calls, used by telephone companies as a basis for assessing service charges.
  • micro-credit — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
  • microcircuit — Electronics. integrated circuit.
  • more like it — closer to being what is wanted
  • nand circuit — Computers. a circuit that is energized when any one of its inputs is not energized.
  • nullity suit — a law suit declaring a marriage to be legally void
  • one-base hit — single (def 24).
  • open circuit — a discontinuous circuit through which no current can flow.
  • overexplicit — excessively explicit
  • overflow bit — (architecture)   A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
  • paper profit — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
  • party spirit — If you talk about someone being in the party spirit, you mean that they are in the mood to enjoy a party or to have fun.
  • passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
  • penguin suit — a man's formal evening suit
  • poète maudit — a poet who receives insufficient recognition in his or her own time
  • proof spirit — an alcoholic liquor, or mixture of alcohol and water, containing a standard amount of alcohol. In the U.S. proof spirit has a specific gravity of .93353 (containing one half of its volume of alcohol of a specific gravity of .7939 at 60° F). In Britain proof spirit has a specific gravity of .91984.
  • return visit — If you make a return visit, you visit someone who has already visited you, or you go back to a place where you have already been once.
  • riding habit — habit1 (def 11).
  • ring circuit — an electrical system in which distribution points are connected to the main supply in a continuous closed circuit
  • risk-benefit — involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved: to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.
  • safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
  • self-benefit — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
  • self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • ship biscuit — hardtack.
  • side circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
  • simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
  • single-digit — of or denoting a percentage smaller than ten, especially with reference to rates below that level: single-digit rates of inflation.
  • soda biscuit — a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
  • storage unit — rented space to store items
  • store credit — A store credit is a document offered by a store to a customer who returns an item not eligible for a refund. It can be used to buy other goods at the store.
  • sumba strait — an area of water separating Sumba, in the Lesser Sunda Islands, from Flores
  • sunda strait — a strait between Sumatra and Java, connecting the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean. 20–65 miles (32–105 km) wide.
  • survival kit — Military. a package containing medical supplies, rations, and other vital equipment for use by a person forced to land in or parachute into the ocean, jungle, or other isolated or hostile territory.
  • swamp rabbit — any of several southern cottontails, especially Sylvilagus aquaticus, of swamps and lowlands.
  • synchro unit — a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.
  • tatar strait — an arm of the Pacific between the mainland of SE Russia and Sakhalin Island, linking the Sea of Japan with the Sea of Okhotsk. Length: about 560 km (350 miles)
  • technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
  • tempus fugit — time flies
  • thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
  • timber limit — the area to which rights of cutting timber, granted by government licence, are limited
  • time deposit — a deposit that can be withdrawn by the depositor only after giving advance notice or after an agreed period of time has elapsed.
  • triple-digit — being in the hundreds or in a figure or amount from 100 through 999: triple-digit budget figures.
  • trouser suit — pantsuit.
  • two-base hit — a base hit that enables a batter to reach second base safely.
  • underexploit — to make insufficient use of
  • weight limit — a limit on permitted weight
  • welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
  • white rabbit — a person who is in a hurry and complaining of being late, like the White Rabbit character in the children's story 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll
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