A 75 ¢ book must look 40 ¢ better to the distributor and wholesaler, because if one peppercorn of doubt that people will pay 75 ¢ for the book gets thrown into the distribution mill, the books may never leave their cartons […]
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Peppercorn
//ˈpɛpɚkɔɹn//
Synonyms for "peppercorn" (50 found)
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Related words (25)
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9 entriesTranslations
24 translations across 20 languages.
Assamese
1 entries- গোল মৰিচ noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Bikol Central
1 entries- paminta noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 胡椒子 noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
- 胡椒粒 noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Dutch
1 entries- peperkorrel noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Esperanto
1 entries- pipro noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Finnish
3 entries- hitunen noun (a small, insignificant quantity)
- pippuri noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
- pippurinmarja noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
French
1 entries- grain de poivre noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
German
1 entries- Pfefferkorn noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Greek
1 entries- πιπερόκοκκος noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Hindi
1 entries- गोलमिर्च noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Hungarian
1 entries- borsszem noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Italian
1 entries- grano di pepe noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Latin
1 entries- grānum piperis noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Lü
1 entries- ᦘᦲᧅᦓᦾᧉ noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Polish
2 entries- ziarnko pieprzu noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
- ździebko noun (a small, insignificant quantity)
Romanian
1 entries- boabă de piper noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Russian
1 entries- перец noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Swedish
1 entries- pepparkorn noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Tagalog
1 entries- paminta noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Welsh
1 entries- grawn pupur noun (the seeds of the plant Piper nigrum)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
peppercorn rent
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