evergreen
/ˈɛvɚɡɹin/ verb C2- To extend the term of a patent beyond the normal legal limit, usually through repeated small modifications.
- To set the repayment rate of a loan at or below the interest rate, so low that the principal will never be repaid.
He/she/it evergreens · Past evergreened · Past participle evergreened · -ing form evergreening
Verb forms
- Base form
- evergreen
- He/she/it
- evergreens
- Past
- evergreened
- Past participle
- evergreened
- -ing form
- evergreening
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We found three or four grooms and idlers standing in the drive inspecting a bicycle which had been drawn out from a clump of evergreens in which it had been concealed.
But instead of the darkness, and the thick and mephitic atmosphere he had expected to find, Dantès saw a dim and bluish light, which, as well as the air, entered, not merely by the aperture he had just formed, but by the interstices and crevices of the rock which were visible from without, and through which he could distinguish the blue sky and the waving branches of the evergreen oaks, and the tendrils of the creepers that grew from the rocks.
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