Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
IMMUNITY
exemption, immunity, granting immunity
(noun) an act exempting someone; “he was granted immunity from prosecution”
immunity
(noun) the quality of being unaffected by something; “immunity to criticism”
immunity, unsusceptibility
(noun) the state of not being susceptible; “unsusceptibility to rust”
immunity, resistance
(noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
immunity (countable and uncountable, plural immunities)
(uncountable) The state of being insusceptible to something; notably
(medicine) Fully protective resistance against infection.
(law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services.
(law) An exemption from prosecution.
(in games and competitions) An exemption given to a player from losing or being withdrawn from play.
(countable) A resistance to a specific thing.
Synonyms
• exemption
• free pass
• get out of jail free card
Hyponyms
• (law): diplomatic immunity
Source: Wiktionary
Im*mu"ni*ty, n.; pl. Immunities. Etym: [L. immunitas, fr. immunis free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunité. See Common, and cf. Mean, a.]
1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.
2. Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SENSE
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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