Definitions for dozens
dozens

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1. tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashingsnoun

   a large number or amount

   "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"

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1. dozensnoun

   A large number.

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1. dozens

   A dozen (commonly abbreviated doz or dz) is a grouping of twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive integer groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the Moon, or months, in a cycle of the Sun, or year. Twelve is convenient because it has a maximal number of divisors among the numbers up to its double, a property only true of 1, 2, 6, 12, 60, 360, and 2520.The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal). Counting in base-12 can easily be accomplished on one's hands by counting each finger bone with one's thumb. Using this method, one hand can count to twelve, and two hands (with the second hand as a placeholder for representing units of twelve) can count to 144. Twelve dozen (122 = 144) are known as a gross; and twelve gross (123 = 1,728, the duodecimal 1,000) are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred, also known as a small gross, is 120 or ten dozen. Dozen may also be used to express a large quantity as in "several dozen" (e.g., dozens of people came to the party).Varying by country, some products are packaged or sold by the dozen, often foodstuff (a dozen eggs). According to one source, sales by the dozen may derive from English units, a system under which “one egg could be sold for a penny or 12 for a shilling, which was equal to 12 pennies.”

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1. dozens

   Dozens is a numerical concept indicating groups or units of twelve. It is a unit of quantity often used in measurements or to describe a relatively large quantity of a certain item.

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1. Dozens

   of Dozen

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1. • Large Indefinite Quantity

Anagrams for dozens »

1. zendos

How to pronounce dozens?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

How to say dozens in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dozens in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dozens in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of dozens in a Sentence

1. Margaret Kudzma:

   My desperation to find him led to an unimaginable journey. I met dozens of people, who out of the goodness of their hearts, spend countless hours rescuing and caring for stray and feral cats, they helped me hand out flyers, hang posters, and search neighbors‘ yards. We set up feeding stations and night vision cameras in areas where sightings were reported.

2. Daniel Green:

   The market is having to play catch-up to SoftBank. ... They are analyzing dozens and dozens of investments.

3. The IG:

   The large number of FBI employees who were in contact with journalists during this time period impacted our ability to identify the sources of leaks. For example, during the periods we reviewed, we identified dozens of FBI employees that had contact with members of the media.

4. Donnie Brown:

   CLIA is proud of its lines’ strong commitment to public health and their record of excellence with VSP ship inspections. Our cruise line's ships are graded in dozens of areas including hygiene and sanitation of food, galley cleanliness, water, shipboard personnel and the ship overall, these scores are a testament to cruise line efforts to provide passengers with the highest level of service.

5. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:

   I’ve talked to the defenders of Mariupol today. I’m in constant contact with them. Their determination, heroism and firmness are astonishing, if only those who have been thinking for 31 days on how to hand over dozens of jets and tanks had 1% of their courage.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dozens
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dozens
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozens
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dozens