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lump

noun

Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group.

  • Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.

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'lump' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a mass of a particular substance. For example: "I found a lump of coal in the corner of the room."

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Some may ask for rent in advance while others will require a lump sum of money to be returned providing the house is well kept Read it back-to-front and get your university's student advice service or student union to check it over.

It could well make sense not to accept a lump sum contribution to the purchase of the property but to accept a regular contribution to living expenses instead.

Some will take a cash lump sum that better meets their needs than a level income stream, and some will reinvest in a pension drawdown fund and withdraw money later.

Small print in the Lloyds annual report shows that the new head of risk, Juan Colombás, received £3.1m in 2013 and is entitled to a lump sum of £718,996 when he reaches retirement age or leaves due to ill-health.

She not only remembered it clearly, but brought a lump to my throat by apologising for other kids whom she'd abhorred anyway.

I imagined a picture frame around the bar, thought of it as nothing but a lump of mass-produced brown lies.

After Sylvia died, I didn't want our sons to be burdened with admin after my death, so I cashed in my life insurance policy and paid a £20,000 lump sum to the American cryonics company.

To get the maximum bonus from the government you will need to save for five years if you can put in £200 a month; if you can afford to start with a £1,000 lump sum you will qualify for the full amount in just over four-and-a-half years.

I began to think about how a lump of coal could be part of a play.

You can also reduce your exposure to another crash by drip-feeding regular monthly amounts into the stock market, rather than paying in a lump sum.

Rubio's answer to the War on Poverty is no more thoughtful: he proposes creating a "Flex Fund" to "[distribute] a lump sum payment to the states to use to support or create innovative and multifaceted state and local antipoverty programs".

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