bring in
verb- To move something indoors, or into an area. · Could you bring in the groceries?· The country brings in raw materials from overseas.
- To introduce a new rule, law, or system of organisation.
- To introduce, add or initiate a person or group of people to an organisation or event; to give (someone) a share or portion of something. · I've brought him in on the plan.
- To earn money for a company or for the family.
- To return a verdict in a court of law.
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Villefort traversed the antechamber, cast a side glance at Dantès, and taking a packet which a gendarme offered him, disappeared, saying, “Bring in the prisoner.”
I guess I can sell papers or lay cobblestones, and bring in a dollar or two.”
“It is all as he has said; it is very evident that the mind still retains its full force and vigor.” Then, turning towards the paralytic, he said, “You possess, then, 900,000 francs of capital, which, according to the manner in which you have invested it, ought to bring in an income of about 40,000 livres?”
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