OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 20784

killing

/ˈkɪl.ɪŋ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
asesinato
An instance of someone being killed.
A police officer in neighboring Mekit county told RFA he was informed that police were searching the houses for a suspect from Pichan (in Chinese, Shanshan) county in Xinjiang’s Tu…
The outrage over the brutal killings of peaceful demonstrators in Lhasa in March 1989 quickly faded after the massacres in Beijing in June.
fortuna
A large amount of money.
He made a killing on the stock market.
The result is, in the end, the superintendent agrees to hold up another race, and the victim arranges to obtain all the money he can get in order to bet it on a sure thing. When th…
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