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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

read-in en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from read in or from read + -in; modelled on lie-in and sit-in.

Meanings

  1. (US, historical) A protest in which demonstrators gather in or occupy a segregated library in order to read.

Forms

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Relateds

swim-in · sit-in · be-in