Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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name
Two people who occupy the same post or location in an alternating arrangement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, attributive, often, plural, plural-only
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verb
To alternate with each other, often in the same post or location.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, ambitransitive
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verb
To alternate between two people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, ambitransitive
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History
From the characters of the 1847 farce Box and Cox by John Maddison Morton, in which an unscrupulous landlady rents a room to two men, one during the day and one at night.
From Box and Cox.
