plyverb
uk/plaɪ/us/plaɪ/ply verb (WORK)
[ T ] to sell or to work regularly at something, especially at a job that involves selling things:
to try to get customers for your business in a public place, for example, as a taxi driver, by driving around or waiting in a regular place:
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Selling
- auction
- bake sale
- bundle
- chain of production
- divest
- export
- package
- pile it high and sell it cheap idiom
- price yourself out of the market idiom
- privatize
- purvey
- realizable
- realization
- serve
- shift
- supersize
- telesales
- tout
- undercharge
- unsold
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ply verb (TRAVEL)
[ I + adv/prep, T ] old-fashioned When a boat, train, bus, etc. plies a particular route, it makes that journey regularly:
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Travelling
- backpacking
- bum around (somewhere)
- catch
- coach
- connect
- cover
- cruise
- destination
- gad about/around (somewhere)
- gallivant
- have sth, will travel idiom
- override
- road
- roam
- tootle
- tourist class
- travel
- travelled
- traverse
- well travelled
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Phrasal verb(s)
plynoun [ U ]
uk/plaɪ/us/plaɪ/the particular number of threads from which wool, rope, etc. is made, used as a measure of its thickness:
the particular number of layers from which plywood or tissue is formed, used as a measure of its thickness:
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Measurements in general
- bathymetry
- chunky
- deep
- dimension
- distance
- draught
- floor-length
- hecto-
- imperial
- length
- length
- linear
- measurable
- measurement
- mega
- pico-
- tyre pressure
- unit
- vital statistics
- wheelbase
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