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  • suffix A suffix forming nouns denoting patients or recipients of actions, such as addend, subtrahend, and dividend.

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Examples

  • Respirator use, it seems, would have been acknowledgment that the air near the spill was full of pollutants, and it would have been caught on camera, while BP was facing litigation from many corners. -end

    Susan Buchanan: BP Spill Workers Seek Care as Health Study Progresses Susan Buchanan 2011

  • Thanks for all the emails suggesting we replace -gate with -end in the Bell matter - you've proved the OBO readership has emphatically still got it.

    The Guardian World News Alan Gardner 2011

  • And so we will -end of the year, have that study complete, so early next year we'll be giving some guidance on where - what sort of increase we might make in the mill.

    unknown title 2011

  • Moreover, we remain positive on the U.S. land rig market and expect the rig count -- now at around 1,860 -- to cross 1,900 by this year -end, spurred by oil-directed activities.

    unknown title 2011

  • Between the South and the -end or the -end and the Sea?

    Forbes.com: News Tim Worstall 2011

  • Thanks for all the emails suggesting we replace -gate with -end in the Bell matter - you've proved the OBO readership has emphatically still got it.

    The Guardian World News Alan Gardner 2011

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