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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region and former German protectorate of west-central Africa. After World War I the territory was divided into British Cameroons and French Cameroons.
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- noun Plural form of
Cameroon .
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Examples
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And the Cameroons are the end result to date, simply not conservatives in any way at all, and therefore unable to command electoral support outside the South East, where the party that they have infested already holds most of the seats without that's having done them the first bit of good with regard to the pursuit of office.
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They afterwards came to be called Cameroons, and are mostly so spoken of in the books of English buccaneers.
Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main Gordon Browne 1867
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Grayling had been known as the Cameroons 'messenger to middle England.
The Guardian World News Allegra Stratton 2010
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Grayling had been known as the Cameroons 'messenger to middle England.
The Guardian World News Allegra Stratton 2010
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Grayling had been known as the Cameroons 'messenger to middle England.
The Guardian World News Allegra Stratton 2010
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Grayling had been known as the Cameroons 'messenger to middle England.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Allegra Stratton 2010
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Grayling had been known as the Cameroons 'messenger to middle England.
Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk Allegra Stratton 2010
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Although the Conservatives 'power-sharing partners, the Liberal Democrats, stand to the left of the "Cameroons" on many issues, their seven-page coalition agreement has proved to be a blueprint for action rather than a check on either party's ambitions.
Toil and Tears 2010
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Yet the "Cameroons" have pledged to "share the proceeds of growth" between higher spending and only small tax cuts.
Why Tony Blair 2008
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Yet the "Cameroons" have pledged to "share the proceeds of growth" between higher spending and only small tax cuts.
Blairism Is Alive 2008
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