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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a seventh part.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one part in seven equal parts
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Examples
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A conservative estimate is that at least one-seventh of Russian couples are infertile.
Russia 2009
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A conservative estimate is that at least one-seventh of Russian couples are infertile.
Eastern Europe 2009
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But House Republicans have yet to embrace Ryan's ideas, instead focusing exclusively on paring back non-security appropriations, which account for only about one-seventh of total federal spending.
Reducing the deficit and growing the economy will be the hot topics in 2011 Shailagh Murray 2011
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Medicaid is broke, Medicare is broke, Social Security is broke and these liberal morons want us to believe that a government that can't even run a cash for clunkers program is going to run one-seventh of our U.S. economy.
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But House Republicans have yet to embrace Ryan's ideas, instead focusing exclusively on paring back non-security appropriations, which account for only about one-seventh of total federal spending.
Reducing the deficit and growing the economy will be the hot topics in 2011 Shailagh Murray 2011
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Thus, even at a time when private housing finance has not yet revived—and most of the investment in housing is flowing through Fannie and Freddie or the Federal Housing Administration FHA—less than one-seventh of the funds invested in debt securities by institutional investors were invested in government-backed mortgage securities.
Government Mortgage Guarantees Are Unnecessary Peter J. Wallison 2011
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Together, the Czechs, Hungarians, and Poles spent only about one-seventh of what Russia spent on defense.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Together, the Czechs, Hungarians, and Poles spent only about one-seventh of what Russia spent on defense.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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An epidemiological study could say that one-seventh of a drink a day causes breast cancer.
Raising the Chance of Some Cancers With Two Drinks a Day Melinda Beck 2011
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That dwarfed the 1984 demise of Continental Illinois, which had only one-seventh of WaMu's assets.
Banks Keep Failing, No End in Sight Randall Smith 2010
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