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.
STRIFES
Noun
strifes
plural of strife
Anagrams
• Fisters, fisters, resifts, sifters
Source: Wiktionary
STRIFE
Strife, n. Etym: [OF. estrif. See Strive.]
1. The act of striving; earnest endeavor. [Archaic] Shak.
2. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. Doting about questions and strifes of words. 1 Tim. vi. 4. Thus gods contended -- noble strife -Who most should ease the wants of life. Congreve.
3. Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle. Twenty of them fought in this black strife. Shak. These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love. Dryden.
4. That which is contended against; occasion of contest. [Obs.] "Lamenting her unlucky strife." Spenser.
Syn.
– Contest; struggle; quarrel. See Contention.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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