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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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the use in manufacturing industry of the methods pioneered by Henry Ford, typified by large-scale mechanized mass production

the use of a word, which is not a noun, as a noun, or as the head of a noun phrase, with or without morphological transformation (e.g., the noun legalization from the verb legalize)

the use of a word, which is not a noun, as a noun, or as the head of a noun phrase, with or without morphological transformation (e.g., the noun legalization from the verb legalize)

(noun) a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being / (noun) a particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of things that have existence

(adj) relating to parataxis, a grammatical concept involving the placing of clauses or phrases one after another, without words to indicate coordination or subordination, as in "Tell me, how are you?"

(noun) a discourse or declamation full of bitter condemnation; tirade

a term for the loans provided by the IMF and the World Bank to countries that experienced economic crises, which come with strings attached: privatisation and deregulation, mainly (the conditions are also known as the Washington Consensus)

the area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents in a given geographical location

a slogan refering to globalization popularised by Margaret Thatcher; means that the market economy is the only system that works, and that debate about this is over

causing vertigo, especially by being extremely high or steep

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