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UK
/dˈɜːv/
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NOUN
- diesel oil used in cars and lorries with diesel engines; from d(iesel) e(ngine) r(oad) v(ehicle)
How To Use derv In A Sentence
- Extensive market research revealed that the site was substantially undervalued and a more realistic figure would be well over ￡100000.
- To explicate this relation, Searle and Vanderveken define weak illocutionary commitment: S1 weakly illocutionarily implies S2 iff every performance of S1 commits an agent to meeting the conditions laid down in the septuple identical to S2 (1985, p. 24). Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla
- What is left in ‘her’ wake, however, is an acerbically astute representation of a social environment in which mothers are routinely erased, undervalued, and ‘trapped’ within the domestic milieu.
- Caps are 12.5 oz. wool blend and have buckram-backed front panels, pre-curved visors, and grey undervisors.
- In a few minutes the flagstaff was well washed, and the derveesh too, and put to flight in discomfiture. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
- The company had undervalued the building by £20 000.
- It is that maelstrom that gives our galaxy its spiraling, dervishly outflung arms. Coleman Barks: Rumi's Poetry: 'All Religions, All This Singing, One Song'
- Mr. Icahn's offer reflected a view that merchant power generators like Dynegy, which owns 18 coal-fired and gas-fired power plants, are undervalued because of current low power prices. Dynegy Top Officers, Directors to Leave
- We also fall prey to the fundamental attribution error, where we overvalue "dispositional" elements "She's bad at money" and undervalue NYT > Home Page
- He is also a hardworking and undervalued writer.
