wash 8
noundomain: activity
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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EnglishDefinition
any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
Examples
- 1.at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash
Hypernym
activity undertaken as part of a commercial enterprise
Domain_of_synset_-_USAGE
colloquialism 1
noun
a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
EnglishMember_of_this_domain_-_USAGE
colloquialism 1
noun
a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
