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单词 dun
释义
dun
adjective
uk
/dʌn/us
/dʌn/
of a greyish-browncolour
灰棕色的
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Less common colours
  • amethyst
  • apple green
  • argent
  • ashy
  • avocado
  • bisque
  • blue-black
  • claret
  • coppery
  • earth tone
  • emerald
  • peach
  • puce
  • rust
  • saffron
  • sapphire
  • sepia
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dun
verb[T]
old-fashioned
uk
/dʌn/us
/dʌn/
-nn-
todemandmoneyfrom someone:
要钱；讨债，催债
Heclaimedhe wouldrathergo toprisonthancontinuebeing dunned by thetaxman.他声称宁可坐牢也不愿意再被税务局催款。
One of hisjobswas dunningcustomersformoneytheyowed.他的工作之一是催促顾客偿还欠款。
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  • boss
  • bossily
  • bossiness
  • bossyboots
  • call forsomeone
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  • defy
  • demand
  • dictate
  • expect
  • harry
  • importunate
  • lay down the lawidiom
  • officious
  • ordain
  • prescribe
  • shovesomeonearound
  • stick
  • stick out forsomething
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(Definition ofdunfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

dun| Business English

dun
verb[T]
US
uk
/dʌn/us
-nn-
todemandmoneyfrom someone:
Heclaimedhe wouldrathergo toprisonthancontinuebeingdunnedby thetaxman.
dun sb for sthOne of hisjobswasdunningcustomersforbills.
(Definition ofdunfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdun

dun
This text thus may interpret a dream about a rather ordinary, inexpensive horse - eitherdunor grey - as indicating good luck.
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Yet, as the impost debates demonstrated, transparent taxes created problems long before they dunned any taxpayers.
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This proves that ndun2r.
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Any payment above that figure is the result of the local authorities dunning their own citizens.
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I asked a simple question—one specific example of a widow who had been dunned.
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The first husband was dunned a second time.
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The man or woman employed by the company unfortunately is the one who will be dunned for it.
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Dunning letters are sent to somebody who has paid his bills, the computer having said that he has not done so.
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I do not necessarily consider that dunning our constituent taxpayers for tens of millions of pounds should always be regarded as an opportunity.
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Dunning fudged the issue to some extent.
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The taxpayers are not being dunned.
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That is the charitable purpose for which people go out in the streets and collect money, although many of them are dunned, by a quite different description, into contributing.
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They admit, naturally that they make mistakes; send books to the wrong people, fail to take notice of a cancellation anddunpeople for payments which are not due.
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It would do less than justice to those tenants who were being dunned by landlords for additional rent when in fact the landlords did not qualify for it.
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Gone, for that matter, was the worry of the doctors in dunning their patients to try to squeeze out the money which the patients could not really afford.
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