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Circumstances Briefly Restricting Employment For Groups Of Performers

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noun

• A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent.

• A round open space in a town or city where multiple streets meet.

• A spectacle; a noisy fuss; a chaotic and/or crowded place.

• In the ancient Roman Empire, a building for chariot racing.

• (World War II) A code name for bomber attacks with fighter escorts in the day time. The attacks were against short-range targets with the intention of occupying enemy fighters and keeping their fighter units in the area concerned.

• Circuit; space; enclosure.

28%15Restricting or limiting the participation or representation of certain groups
noun

• the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society)

26%7 County briefly gets in snappy dresser (employed in murky circumstances)
noun

• headlight that provides strong beam for use in foggy weather

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