OUTROPER

Etymology

Noun

outroper (plural outropers)

(law) A person to whom the business of selling by auction was confined by statute.

(historical) An officer in London who seized the goods of foreigners sold elsewhere than in the public market.

Anagrams

• uprooter

Source: Wiktionary



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UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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