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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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noun
A contactless smart card, introduced in 2003, used to pay for public transport in the Greater London area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
A marketing coinage; influences are said to include the security and value of the oyster's shell and pearl, the oyster beds of London's Thames estuary, and the popular idiom the world is one's oyster.
