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Newguest Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Wound up/private retreat
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The hotel remained closed to the public for many years, while executives of the bank that wound up with it used the place as a private retreat.
--- Does it mean that they closed it down and then used it as their private place?
The hotel remained closed to the public for many years, while executives of the bank that wound up with it used the place as a private retreat.
--- Does it mean that they closed it down and then used it as their private place?
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wind up with = finish by possessing; possess in the end retreat = place to escape the mundane world
- wind up with = finish by possessing; possess in the end retreat = place to escape the mundane world
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wind up with = finish by possessing; possess in the end
retreat = place to escape the mundane world
retreat = place to escape the mundane world
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