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Pat⋅er⋅son

  [pat-er-suhn]
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–noun
a city in NE New Jersey. 138,620.
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Pat·er·son   (pāt'ər-sən)   
A city of northeast New Jersey at the falls of the Passaic River north of Newark. It was founded in 1791 as an industrial settlement of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, chartered by Alexander Hamilton and others to promote independent American enterprise. Population: 149,000.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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