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Reduce Key Nursing Personnel Primarily

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99%7Exact Match!
verb

• use up (resources or materials)

27%8Reduce diet regularly and stop eating rubbish, primarily
noun

• a change downward

• a process of becoming smaller or shorter

• the amount by which something decreases

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

verb

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• make become smaller

26%9Nursing is a key component of it
noun

• (psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant's development; the mouth is the focus of the libido and satisfaction comes from suckling and chewing and biting

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