vərˌbrʊk noun
William Maxwell Aitken, Lord (1st Baron) 1879–1964, English publisher, born in Canada.
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| 1st Baron, title of William Maxwell Aitken. 1879--1964, British newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician, born in Canada, whose newspapers included the Daily Express; minister of information (1918); minister of aircraft production (1940--41) | |
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Beaverbrook
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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