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Peaceblinkfriend Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

"...conduits..."?

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00"These three countries are major conduits for trafficking illegal ivory from the region to international markets, particularly in Asia."02br
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00I looked up the word 'conduit' in the dictionary and it says it means a pipe or passage for water or electrical wires to go through.02br
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0Conduit = 01b003.02b00 A means by which something is transmitted: 01i00an arms dealer who served as a conduit for intelligence data.02i0-
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0 I'd read it as 01b00path02b02br
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01b00502b00 01b00:02b00 a means of conveying or distributing money <the doctrine that corporations are a 01i00conduit02i00 for profits -- J.T.Norman>

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