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.
IMPOUND
impound, pound
(verb) place or shut up in a pound; “pound the cows so they don’t stray”
impound, attach, sequester, confiscate, seize
(verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; “The FBI seized the drugs”; “The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment”; “The police confiscated the stolen artwork”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
impound (third-person singular simple present impounds, present participle impounding, simple past and past participle impounded)
(transitive) to shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound
(transitive) to hold back (for example water by a dam)
(transitive, law) to hold in the custody of a court or its delegate
(transitive, law, banking) to collect and hold (funds) for payment of property taxes and insurance on property in which one has a security interest
Noun
impound (plural impounds)
a place in which things are impounded
a state of being impounded
that which has been impounded
(law, banking) amounts collected from a debtor and held by one with a security interest in property for payment of property taxes and insurance
Source: Wiktionary
Im*pound" (, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Impounding.]
Definition: To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping. But taken and impounded as a stray, The king of Scots. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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