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| NOUN: | 1. A sphere of activity, experience, study, or interest: area, arena, bailiwick, circle, department, domain, field, orbit, province, realm, scene, terrain, territory, world. Slang : bag. See TERRITORY. 2. A person owing loyalty to and entitled to the protection of a given state: citizen, national. See GROUP, POLITICS. 3. What a speech, piece of writing, or artistic work is about: argument, matter, point, subject matter, text, theme, topic. See MEANING. | | VERB: | 1. To make subservient or subordinate: enslave, enthrall, subjugate. See FREE. 2. To lay open, as to something undesirable or injurious: expose. Idioms: open the door to. See PROTECTION. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Determined or to be determined by someone or something else: conditional, conditioned, contingent, dependent, relative, reliant. See START. 2. Tending to incur: liable, open, prone, susceptible, susceptive, vulnerable. See LIKELY. 3. In a position of subordination: collateral, dependent, subordinate, subservient. See OVER, PART.
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