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noun • the state of owing something (especially money) • money or goods or services owed by one person to another • an obligation to pay or do something | ||||||||
| 26% | 15 | Finding a logical or sensible reason for something that was initially done without reason | ||||||
noun • (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening • the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason • (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation • the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency • systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale | ||||||||
| 26% | 13 | Characteristic that evolves for one reason but later provides an advantage for another reason | ||||||
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Reason For Imprisonment Once Crossword Clue
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Similar Clues
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1 | Characteristic that evolves for one reason but later provides an advantage for another reason | |
2 | Endless tradition with support reflected by length of imprisonment
The Guardian Everyman -
30 Oct 2016 | The Guardian Everyman / 30 Oct 2016 |
3 | Fear imprisonment in thatch?
The Guardian Quiptic -
21 Jul 2003 | The Guardian Quiptic / 21 Jul 2003 |
4 | Finding a logical or sensible reason for something that was initially done without reason | |
5 | One subject to imprisonment, in Dickens's day
New York Times -
30 Dec 2017 | New York Times / 30 Dec 2017 |
6 | Sentence eg to imprisonment
The Guardian Quick -
01 Jan 2003 | The Guardian Quick / 01 Jan 2003 |
7 | Sentence of a court not involving imprisonment
The Guardian Speedy -
19 Jul 2020 | The Guardian Speedy / 19 Jul 2020 |
