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Definition: Turgot |
TurgotNoun1. French economist who in 1774 was put in control of finances by Louis XVI; his proposals for reforms that involved abolishing feudal privileges made him unpopular with the aristocracy and in 1776 he was dismissed (1727-1781). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Turgot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Synonym: TurgotSynonym: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (n). (additional references) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The same fury is lawful against Terray, and absurd against Turgot. |
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Expression using "Turgot": Anne Robert Jacques Turgot. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
turgot | 4 |
jacques turgot | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rotgut. | |
| Words within the letters "g-o-r-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: grout, trout, tutor. | |
-2 letters: gout, grot, rout, tort, tour, tout, trot, trug. | |
-3 letters: gor, got, gut, ort, our, out, rot, rug, rut, tog, tor, tot, tug, tut. | |
-4 letters: go, or, to, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-o-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: rotguts. | |
+2 letters: outright, tutorage, tutoring. | |
+3 letters: autograft, courgette, groutiest, gustatory, outgrowth, outrating, rethought, torturing, tutorages. | |
+4 letters: autografts, courgettes, gratuitous, obturating, outglitter, outgrowths, outrightly, outrooting, outstaring, outtrading, outwriting, outwrought, rouletting, throughout, throughput, tutoyering, untogether. | |
+5 letters: autografted, droughtiest, forethought, gratulation, gratulatory, gustatorily, mistutoring, obstructing, outglitters, outintrigue, outsmarting, outstarting, outsteering, outstriding, outthrowing, outtowering, outtricking, outtrotting, outtrumping, overcutting, overthought, pirouetting, rebuttoning, thoroughest, throughputs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 75 72 67 6F 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- ..- .-. --. --- - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110101 01110010 01100111 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T u r g o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0075 0072 0067 006F 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548784738186 |
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