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| Domain | Definition |
Finance | The illegal practice of some real estate dealers who start rumors that play on prejudices against minorities, creating panic selling by an area's residents. The dealers buy the houses from frightened owners at below market prices, and then sell the homes to minority groups at above market prices. (references) |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| "BLOCKBUSTING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 33.33% of the time. "BLOCKBUSTING" is used about 9 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BLOCKBUSTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | lakástulajdonosok ingatlanjaiknak eladására bírása. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockbustingblay сенсационный (sensational), захватывающий (all-absorbing, arresting, breathtaking, breath-taking, conquering, engrossing, enthralling, riveting, spectacular, thrilling). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BLOCKBUSTING": blockbustings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-g-i-k-l-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: kingbolts. | |
-4 letters: biltongs, blocking, blousing, botulins, buckling, bustling, clouting, clubbing, cobbling, gunlocks, gunstock, inkblots, kingbolt, linocuts, linstock, lobstick, locknuts, outslick, scouting, sculking, slubbing, stinkbug, stobbing, stocking, stubbing, subblock, subtonic, suckling, sunblock, tousling, unblocks. | |
-5 letters: biltong, bluings, bolting, botulin, bousing, bubonic, bucking, bulking, busking, busting, butling, closing, cobnuts, congius, consult, costing, gibbons, gibbous, globins. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-c-g-i-k-l-n-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: blockbustings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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