dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/yeo_MW.json
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"yeo":{
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},
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"\u02c8y\u014d"
],
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"type":[
"abbreviation"
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},
"yeoman":{
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": a naval petty officer who performs clerical duties":[],
": a person attending or assisting another : retainer":[],
": a person of the social rank of yeoman":[],
": an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household":[],
": one that performs great and loyal service":[
"did a yeoman ' s job in seeing the program through"
],
": yeoman of the guard":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But Alaina Gerrits, the DNR's former assistant upland ecologist and current Vilas County wildlife biologist, did a yeoman 's job over the last 10 months to lead the effort to come up with a draft plan. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
"Putin has received valuable diplomatic support from Xi, and from Beijing\u2019s perspective, Moscow is doing yeoman \u2019s work in pushing back democracy. \u2014 Michael Schuman, The Atlantic , 9 Mar. 2022",
"To this day, by contrast, activists continue performing their yeoman 's service, working to improve the lives of people in the economic wastelands of the South and the Rust Belt. \u2014 Kevin Morrow, The Week , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Jefferson\u2019s dream of an America of yeoman farmers tilling the soil like Cincinnatus in retirement, Novak recognized, contrasted sharply with Hamilton\u2019s America of bustling urban industries and dynamic financial markets. \u2014 Samuel Gregg, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"From that moment on, Alphabet was less of a goofball and more of a yeoman , determined to win. \u2014 Susan Orlean, The New Yorker , 8 Feb. 2022",
"The Cougars did yeoman \u2019s work with forcing turnovers. \u2014 Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Over a third of the returning cast members have their own high-profile projects in addition to doing their yeoman comedy here. \u2014 Andy Hoglund, EW.com , 3 Oct. 2021",
"Exhibits also depict a silversmith plying his craft in a workshop on the Milldam, a Black yeoman farmer at work in his fields, and a family secretly preparing for the rebellion on the eve of April 19, 1775. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 Sep. 2021"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English yoman, yeman":""
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"\u02c8y\u014d-m\u0259n"
],
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"type":[
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},
"yeoman usher":{
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"definitions":{
": the deputy of the black rod":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164048",
"type":[
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},
"yeoman warder":{
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"definitions":{
": beefeater sense 2":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1573, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055608",
"type":[
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"yeomanry":{
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"definitions":{
": a British volunteer cavalry force created from yeomen in 1761 as a home defense force and reorganized in 1907 as part of the territorial force":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In some ways this affluent proletariat viewed itself as a kind of modern yeomanry \u2014 willing to serve the country in war, but anxious to live self-sufficiently and among equals. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 16 Aug. 2019",
"Research by Robert Allen, an economic historian at New York University Abu Dhabi, concludes that the big, capitalist estates which resulted from enclosure were not much more productive than common land farmed by the yeomanry . \u2014 The Economist , 12 Sep. 2019"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"\u02c8y\u014d-m\u0259n-r\u0113"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131438",
"type":[
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}
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