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Word: Dock
Speech Type: Verb
late Middle English: perhaps related to Frisian dok ‘bunch, ball (of string etc.)’ and German Docke ‘doll’. The original noun sense was ‘the solid part of an animal's tail’, whence the verb sense ‘cut short an animal's tail’, later generalized to ‘reduce, deduct’
dɒk
deduct (something, especially an amount of money or a point in a game)
Short Definition:deduct
Examples:- the agency enforce payments by docking money from the father's salary
- he was docked a penalty point
cut short (an animal's tail)
Short Definition:cut short animal's tail
Examples:- their tails were docked
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