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ste mer

  • n  a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
  • n  a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
  • n  an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
  • n  a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
  • n  a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)

  • But the basic plant and the factories that get built tend, in the process, to stem inflationhopefullyby increasing the best inflation stemmer there is, productivity.
  • A hobo isn't a stemmer; he begs only when he has to.
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