Beveridge

  

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Beveridge

Definition: Beveridge

Beveridge

Noun

1. British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Beveridge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

 

Synonyms: Beveridge

Synonyms: First Baron Beveridge (n), William Henry Beveridge (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Beveridge

English words defined with "Beveridge": First Baron BeveridgeWilliam Henry Beveridge. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Beveridge

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Beveridge

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Portrait of Beveridge Webster.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Beveridge

"Beveridge" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Beveridge" is used about 210 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%21020,939

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Beveridge

The following table summarizes the usage of "Beveridge" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BeveridgeLast name2,0007,432
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Beveridge

Expressions using "Beveridge": first Baron Beveridge William Henry Beveridge. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Beveridge": beveridge-style.

Ending with "Beveridge": post-beveridge.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Beveridge

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-g-i-r-v"

-2 letters: diverge, grieved.

-3 letters: begird, bridge, degree, derive, edgier, grieve, reeved, regive, reived, veered, verbid, verged.

-4 letters: beige, bider, brede, breed, breve, bride, dirge, diver, drive, edger, eerie, eider, gibed, giber, giver, grebe, greed, gride, rebid, reeve, reive, ridge, rived, vegie, verge.

-5 letters: beer, berg, bide, bier, bird, bred, bree, brie, brig, deer, dere, dire.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Beveridge


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 76 65 72 69 64 67 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    ...-    .    .-.    ..    -..    --.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100100 01100111 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#118 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#100 &#103 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0076 0065 0072 0069 0064 0067 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367188718475707371

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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