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  2. Laypeople - Wikipedia

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    Laypeople or laypersons may refer to: Someone who is not an expert in a particular field of study Lay judge. Lay judges in Japan; Laity, members of a church who are ...

  3. Lists of pejorative terms for people - Wikipedia

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    Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with ...

  4. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    a playground apparatus composed of bars for children to climb on [54] (jungle gym in U.S.) clingfilm thin plastic film for wrapping food (US: plastic wrap, Saran wrap) cobblers * shoe repairers; (slang) a weaker version of bollocks, meaning 'nonsense' (often "a load of old cobblers"), from rhyming slang 'cobbler's awls' = balls cock-up, cockup *

  5. Laity - Wikipedia

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    Buddhist laypeople take refuge in the Triple Gem the Buddha, Dhamma (His Teachings), and Sangha (His community of Noble Disciples) and accept the Five Precepts (or the Eight Precepts during Uposatha Days) as discipline for ethical conduct. [43] [44] Laymen and laywomen are two of the "Four-fold Assembly". The Buddha referred to his disciples as ...

  6. Category:Pejorative terms for people - Wikipedia

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    It should only contain pages that are Pejorative terms for people or lists of Pejorative terms for people, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Pejorative terms for people in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .

  7. Lists of words having different meanings in American and ...

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  8. Language-for-specific-purposes dictionary - Wikipedia

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    As described in Bergenholtz/Tarp 1995, LSP dictionaries are often made for users who are already specialists with a subject field (experts), but may also be made for semi-experts and laypeople. In contrast to LSP dictionaries, LGP (language for general purposes) dictionaries are made to be used by an average user. LSP dictionaries may have one ...

  9. Householder (Buddhism) - Wikipedia

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    Buddhist monks giving a teaching or blessing to lay people in Myanmar. In English translations of Buddhist texts, householder denotes a variety of terms. Most broadly, it refers to any layperson, and most narrowly, to a wealthy and prestigious familial patriarch. [1]