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Word: Rathole
Speech Type: Noun
ˈrathəʊl
a cramped or squalid room or building
Short Definition:cramped or squalid room or building
Examples:- a rathole where a friend lived until her place was broken into for the seventeenth time
used to refer to the waste of money or resources
Short Definition:used to refer to waste of money or resources
Examples:- pouring our assets down the rathole of military expenditure
(in the oil industry) a shallow hole drilled near a well to accommodate the drill string joint when not in use.
Short Definition:(in oil industry) shallow hole drilled near well to accommodate drill string joint when not in use
Word: Rathole
Speech Type: Verb
ˈrathəʊl
hide (money or goods), typically as part of a deception
Short Definition:hide money or goods
Examples:- he had ratholed the nine thousand that nobody could find
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