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#785. Receiving.-- N. receiving

• acquisition

• reception

• suscipiency|!

• acceptance

• admission

• recipient

• assignee

• devisee

• legatee

• grantee

• releasee[Law]

• lessee

• receiver

• sportulary|

• stipendiary

• beneficiary

• pensioner

• income

• V. receive

• take

• acquire

• admit

• take in

• catch

• touch

• pocket

• put into one's pocket

• put into one's

• purse

• accept

• take off one's hands

• be received

• come in

• come to hand

• pass into one's hand

• fall into

• one's hand

• go into one's pocket

• fall to one's lot

• fall to one's share;

• come to one

• fall to one

• accrue

• have given

• Adj. receiving

• recipient

• suscipient|!

• received

• given

• secondhand

• not given

• unbestowed

• bestow

#786. Apportionment.-- N. apportionment

• allotment

• consignment

• assignment

• appointment

• appropriation

• dispensation

• distribution;

• division

• deal

• repartition

• partition

• administration

• dividend

• portion

• contingent

• share

• allotment

• fair share

• allocation

• lot

• measure

• dose

• dole

• meed

• pittance

• quantum

• ration;

• ratio

• proportion

• quota

• modicum

• mess

• allowance

• V. apportion

• divide

• distribute

• administer

• dispense

• billet

• allot

• detail

• cast

• share

• mete

• portion out

• parcel out

• dole out

• deal

• carve

• allocate

• ration

• ration out

• assign

• separate

• partition

• assign

• appropriate

• appoint

• come in for one's share

• Adj. apportioning

• respective

• Adv. respectively

• each to each

#787. Lending.-- N. lending

• loan

• advance

• accommodation

• feneration|

• mortgage

• second mortgage

• home loan

• investment

• note

• bond

• commercial paper

• pawnshop

• my uncle's

• lender

• pawnbroker

• money lender

• usurer

• loan shark

• loaner

• V[item loaned][coll.]. lend

• advance

• accommodate with

• lend on

• security

• loan

• pawn

• intrust

• invest

• place out to interest

• put out to interest

• let

• demise

• lease

• underlet

• Adj. lending

• lent

• unborrowed

• Adv. in advance

• on loan

• on security

#788. Borrowing.-- N. borrowing

• pledging

• borrowed plumes

• plagiarism

• replevin[Law]

• V. borrow

• desume|

• hire

• rent

• farm

• take a lease

• take a demise

• take by the hour

• take

• by the mile

• take by the year

• hire by the hour

• hire by the mile

• hire

• by the year

• adopt

• apply

• appropriate

• imitate

• make use of

• take

• raise money

• take up money

• raise the wind

• fly a kite

• borrow from

• Peter to pay Paul

• run into debt

• replevy[Law]

#789. Taking.-- N. taking

• reception

• deglutition

• appropriation

• prehension

• prensation|;

• capture

• caption

• apprehension

• deprehension|

• abreption|

• seizure

• expropriation

• abduction

• ablation

• subtraction

• withdrawal

• abstraction

• adrolepsy|!

• dispossession

• deprivation

• bereavement;

• divestment

• distraint

• distress

• sequestration

• confiscation

• eviction

• rapacity

• rapaciousness

• extortion

• vampirism

• theft

• resumption

• reprise

• reprisal

• recovery

• clutch

• swoop

• wrench

• grip

• haul

• take

• catch;

• scramble

• taker

• captor

• [Geol: descent of one of the earth's crustal plates under another

• plate] subduction

• V. take

• catch

• hook

• nab

• bag

• sack

• pocket

• put into one's pocket;

• receive

• accept

• reap

• crop

• cull

• pluck

• gather

• draw

• appropriate

• expropriate

• assume

• possess oneself

• of

• take possession of

• commandeer

• lay one's hands on

• clap one's hands

• on

• help oneself to

• make free with

• dip one's hands into

• lay under

• contribution

• intercept

• scramble for

• deprive of

• take away

• carry away

• bear away

• take off

• carry off

• bear off;

• adeem|!

• abstract

• hurry off with

• run away with

• abduct

• steal

• ravish

• seize

• pounce upon

• spring upon

• swoop to

• swoop down upon

• take by

• storm

• take by assault

• snatch

• snap up

• nip up

• whip up

• catch up

• kidnap

• crimp

• capture

• lay

• violent hands on

• get hold of

• lay hold of

• take hold of

• catch hold of

• lay fast hold

• of

• take firm hold of

• lay by the heels

• take prisoner

• fasten upon

• grip

• grapple

• embrace

• gripe

• clasp

• grab

• clutch

• collar

• throttle

• take by the

• throat

• claw

• clinch

• clench

• make sure of

• catch at

• jump at

• make a grab at

• snap at

• snatch at

• reach

• make a

• long arm

• stretch forth one's hand

• take from

• take away from

• deduct

• retrench

• (curtail) 20

• dispossess

• ease one of

• snatch from one's grasp

• tear from

• tear away from

• wrench from

• wrest from

• wring from

• extort

• deprive of

• bereave

• disinherit

• cut off with a shilling

• oust

• divest

• levy

• distrain

• confiscate

• sequester

• sequestrate

• usurp

• despoil

• strip

• fleece

• shear

• impoverish

• eat out of house and home

• drain

• drain to the

• dregs

• gut

• dry

• exhaust

• swallow up

• absorb

• draw off;

• suck the blood of

• suck like a leech

• retake

• resume

• recover

• Adj. taking

• prehensile

• predaceous

• predatory

• lupine

• rapacious

• raptorial;

• ravenous

• parasitic

• bereft

• Adv. at one fell swoop

• Phr. give an inch and take an ell

#790. Restitution.-- N. restitution

• return

• rendition

• restoration

• reinvestment

• recuperation

• rehabilitation

• reparation

• atonement

• compensation

• indemnification

• release

• replevin[Law]

• redemption

• recovery

• remitter

• reversion

• V. return

• restore

• give back

• carry back

• bring back

• render

• render

• up

• give up

• let go

• unclutch

• disgorge

• regurgitate;

• recoup

• reimburse

• compensate

• indemnify

• remit

• rehabilitate

• repair

• (make good) 660

• [transitive] reinvest

• revest

• reinstate

• redeem

• recover

• take back again

• [intransitive] revest

• revert

• Adj. restoring

• recuperative

• Phr. suum cuique[Lat]

#791. Stealing.-- N. stealing

• theft

• thievery

• latrociny|

• abstraction

• appropriation

• plagiary

• plagiarism;

• spoliation

• plunder

• pillage

• sack

• rapine

• brigandage

• foray

• rape

• depredation

• raid

• blackmail

• piracy

• privateering

• buccaneering

• license to plunder

• letters of

• marque

• letters of mark and reprisal

• filibustering

• burglary

• housebreaking

• badger

• game*

• robbery

• highway robbery

• hold-up* [U.S.]

• mugging

• peculation

• embezzlement

• fraud

• larceny

• petty larceny

• grand

• larceny

• shoplifting

• thievishness

• rapacity

• kleptomania

• den of Cacus

• den

• of thieves

• blackmail

• extortion

• shakedown

• Black Hand [U.S.]

• [person who commits theft] thief

• V. steal

• thieve

• rob

• mug

• purloin

• pilfer

• filch

• prig

• bag

• nim|

• crib

• cabbage

• palm

• abstract

• appropriate

• plagiarize

• convey away

• carry off

• abduct

• kidnap

• crimp

• make off with

• walk off

• with

• run off with

• run away with

• spirit away

• seize

• hands on) 789

• plunder

• pillage

• rifle

• sack

• loot

• ransack

• spoil

• despoil

• strip

• sweep

• gut

• forage

• levy blackmail

• pirate

• pickeer|

• maraud

• lift cattle

• poach

• smuggle

• run

• badger*

• bail up

• hold up

• stick

• up

• bunco

• bunko

• filibuster

• swindle

• peculate

• embezzle

• sponge

• mulct

• rook

• bilk

• pluck

• pigeon

• fleece

• defraud

• obtain under false pretenses

• live by one's wits

• rob Peter to pay Paul

• borrow of Peter to pay Paul

• set a thief to

• catch a thief

• disregard the distinction between meum and tuum[Lat]

• [receive stolen goods] fence

• launder

• launder money

• Adj. thieving

• thievish

• light-fingered

• furtive

• piratical

• predaceous

• predatory

• raptorial

• stolen

• Phr. sic vos non vobis[Lat]