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afsluiten werkwoord | lock [locked, locking, locks](to fasten with a lock) shut down(to turn off or stop) |
afsluiting substantief | closure [closures](event signifying an ending) stanchion [stanchions](confinement) |
afsluiting substantief {f} | valediction(word or phrase to end a letter or message) |
afsluitpremie substantief {f} | commission [commissions](fee charged) |
afsluitprovisie substantief {f} | commission [commissions](fee charged) |
aluin substantief {f} | alum(chemistry: double sulfate) |
ambachtslui substantief {m-Pl} | craft [crafts]noun |
beluik substantief {m} | dead end(street or path that goes nowhere) |
besluipen werkwoord | stalk [stalked, stalking, stalks]verb |
besluit substantief | conclusion [conclusions](outcome) |
besluit substantief {n} | decision [decisions](choice or judgement) resolution [resolutions](formal statement adopted by an assembly) |
besluiteloos bijvoeglijk naamwoord | indecisive(not decisive) |
besluiteloosheid substantief | indecision(inability to decide on a course of action) indeterminationnoun quandary [quandaries](a state of not knowing what to decide) |
besluiten werkwoord | conclude [concluded, concluding, concludes](to end) culminate [culminated, culminating, culminates](to climax) decide [decided, deciding, decides](to resolve or settle) resolve [resolved, resolving, resolves](to make a firm decision) |
besluitvaardig bijvoeglijk naamwoord | decisive(marked by promptness and decision) |
besluitvorming substantief {f} | decision making(process of reaching a decision) |
bladluis substantief {f} | aphid [aphids](insect) |
blokfluit substantief | recorder [recorders](musical instrument) |
buitensluiten werkwoord | crowd out(To force to leave by crowding) exclude [excluded, excluding, excludes](to bar from entering; keep out) |
bussluis substantief {f} | bus trapnoun |
citaatuitluider substantief {m} | dialogue tag(speech tag, attribution) |
de rangen sluiten werkwoord | close ranks(to regroup forces) |
doorfluistertje substantief {n} | Chinese whispers(game) |
doorgeefluik substantief {n} | hatch [hatches](opening for serving food) |
drieluik substantief | triptych [triptychs](art: a picture or series of pictures painted on three tablets connected by hinges) |
drieluik substantief {n} | trilogy [trilogies](collection of three works) |
drievingerige luiaard substantief {m} | pale-throated sloth [pale-throated sloths](Bradypus tridactylus) |
druifluis substantief {f} | phylloxera(aphid) |
druksluis substantief {f} | airlock [airlocks](sealed, airtight chamber) |
een fluitje van een cent bijvoeglijk naamwoord | easy as pie(very easy) |
espagnoletsluiting substantief | espagnolette(locking device) |