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jack
noun
A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack, hydraulic jack, ratchet jack, scaffold jack.
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The prime minister will be unable to table his demands for the repatriation of powers before the next election because Clegg has dismissed this strategy as "a false promise wrapped in a union jack".
But some unequivocal good did come out of it, including a loosening of the restrictions on public buildings flying the union jack.
There are some ballads on there, and some new jack swing".
"You have to be a jack of all trades out here," says Sam. "Most people do several jobs: run a cafe, manage holiday lets, farm, decorate … We all help each other.
Taylor is a truck driver, Brown a teacher (Dushyantha Piladitiya, also picnicking with them outside the hall in on a union jack blanket, is 20 and a former biology student of Brown's).
With his other hand he uses what looks like an enormous set of iron tweezers (known as a jack) to draw out strands of glass.
It's not as if they talk about it in school: 'OK, children, there's Jack, there's Jill, and there's Zane' or whoever.
He's now 25, and in the film of his life, this would be the moment that the journalist asks: "So tell me, Jack, what is the secret of your success?" And then the scene would cut to an image of him running his company from a laptop on a beach with a beautiful woman at his side.
The indictment alleges: "Soon after receiving these wire transfers, the defendant Jack Warner caused a substantial portion of the funds to be diverted for his personal use," which included laundering the money through intermediaries.
Two men sit at a wooden bar serving hot drinks, doughnuts and e-liquids such as Colonel Custard, Jack the Ripple ("British raspberry ripple ice-cream") and Capote ("Pineapple, peach, banana, cream").
Jack Monroe: Community Shop is no good if you don't have any money Young people are setting up workers' co-operatives to fight against inequality Zara Aziz: Being a 'generalist and gatekeeper' is no longer sustainable for a GP Regional cities drive prosperity, says a charter for local freedom After Rotherham, how can councils do more to protect children?
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