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- A personality type of someone who is relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
- The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money, e.g. $2.8 B = $2,800,000,000.
- An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A
abbreviation
- (cricket) the number of balls faced by a batsman
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noun - The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor degree.
- A highschool completion exam and qualification awarded in many countries (e.g. Finland, France, Moldova, Romania), designed to enable students to go on to higher education.
- Compare: the w:International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate.
- (United States) A farewell address in the form of a sermon delivered to a graduating class.
adjective - Pertaining to a bachelor of arts.
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noun
- A collegiate degree, usually involving four years of study, (about 120 semester hours) that involves liberal arts studies.
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noun bachelor of science (abbreviated as BS or BSc)
- A three- to four-year (about 120 credit hours) undergraduate degree, with a concentration in the sciences or scientific applications.
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adjective - Relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin.
- In a phylogenetic tree, being a group, or member of a group, which diverged early.
- Hittite is a Indo-European language.
- A magnolia is a angiosperm.
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noun
- A school which provides board and lodging as well as tuition, students going home at weekends or between terms
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noun Borstal
- Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1982.
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