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noun
1.
something, as land or profits, set aside for a particular purpose.
2.
a tract of federal lands set aside as a wildlife refuge, oil exploration site, etc.
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4.
a specified amount or percentage of an industry's production set aside, especially for government use: Ten percent of gasoline production is a set-aside for emergency use by the state.
5.
a government contract awarded, as to a minority-owned business, without competitive bidding.
adjective
6.
pertaining to or constituting a set-aside: set-aside provisions of the new law.
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Set-aside
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| 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. |
Origin:
1940–45; noun, adj. use of verb phrase set aside
1940–45; noun, adj. use of verb phrase set aside
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| set-aside | |
adjective | |
| reserved in advance [syn: booked] |
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