combine
/ˈkɑm.baɪn/ noun C2- Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic or fraudulent intentions. · The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges.
- An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc. · His grandmother worked in the stamping plant of the sheet and tin combine.
- An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface.
- A test match in which applicants play in the hope of earning a position on a professional football team.
Plural combines
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“Well, when you can combine patriotism and fun, isn’t it all right?
“When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has an interest in preventing his stepdaughter’s marriage, the dying allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its place, I think that there is good ground to think that the mystery may be cleared along those lines.”
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