Phrase guide
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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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verb
To qualify for a bonus or other amount of money that has been promised.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business
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verb
To make more money from a book than it cost to run an advertising campaign for it; to make enough in royalties to cover the advance a book received.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: authorship, broadcasting, communications, film, journalism, literature, media, publishing, television, writing
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History
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