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  • 31conspicuous consumption — noun buying expensive services and products in order to flaunt your wealth • Hypernyms: ↑consumption, ↑economic consumption, ↑usance, ↑use, ↑use of goods and services * * * noun : lavish or wasteful spending regarded as establishing or enhancing… …

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  • 32Conspicuous Service Cross (New York) — The Conspicuous Service Cross is a decoration for military service awarded by the State of New York to members of the military who have also been awarded any of the following by the United States: [[File:NY State Conspicuous Service… …

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  • 33Conspicuous Gallantry Decoration (Rhodesia) — The Conspicuous Gallantry Decoration was Rhodesia s highest civil decoration and the second highest award available to members of the armed forces. It was awarded for acts of the highest gallantry and brave conduct of an outstanding order in a… …

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  • 34Conspicuous Only in its Absence — Infobox Album | Name = Conspicuous Only in Its Absence Type = Album Artist = The Great Society Released = 1968 Recorded = Genre = Psychedelic rock Length = Label = Columbia Records | Producer = Peter Abram Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5… …

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  • 35conspicuous — [[t]kənspɪ̱kjuəs[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED If someone or something is conspicuous, people can see or notice them very easily. The most conspicuous way in which the old politics is changing is in the growing use of referendums... You may feel tearful in… …

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  • 36conspicuous creation — n. The making of art, gifts, crafts, and household items in a showy, non subtle manner. Example Citation: She ll sell you lots of stuff, but basically Martha [Stewart] does not believe in store bought. She urges us to reject mass manufacturing… …

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  • 37conspicuous — adj. VERBS ▪ be, feel, look, seem ▪ become ▪ make sb ▪ Its yellow skin makes it highly conspicuous …

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  • 38conspicuous — con|spic|u|ous [ kən spıkjuəs ] adjective 1. ) very noticeable or easy to see, especially because of being unusual or different: She might have felt less conspicuous if there had been other women there too. ─ opposite INCONSPICUOUS 2. ) FORMAL… …

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  • 39conspicuous — adjective 1 someone or something that is conspicuous is very easy to notice, especially because they are different from everything or everyone else around them: I felt very conspicuous in my suit everyone else was in jeans. 2 unusually good, bad …

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  • 40conspicuous — conspicuously, adv. conspicuousness, conspicuity /kon spi kyooh i tee/, n. /keuhn spik yooh euhs/, adj. 1. easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable: a conspicuous error. 2. attracting special attention, as by outstanding qualities or …

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