Please say this word out loud so that I can learn how it is pronounced.

plural of magic word

Any word that has a magical effect when uttered. / (in teaching polite behaviour to children) One of the words please, thank you, or hello.

A person with temporary permission to work in another country.

A legal authorization which allows a person to take employment in a country other than that in which he/she holds citizenship.

(programming) A data structure that represents a set of strings and allows for a query operation that tests whether a given string belongs to the set in time proportional to its length (thus more efficient in some situations than a trie).

plural of compound word

(idiomatic) used to indicate a paraphrase or the chance of an error in the details of reported speech.

The larva of a chironomid (family Chironomidae). / Any member of the genus Glycera. / The blackworm (Lumbriculus variegatus). / The roundworm Strongylus vulgaris, a common parasite of horses.

(chiefly Britain) Alternative form of get a word in edgewise