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half a dozen
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Princeton's WordNet
six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexadnoun
the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
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half a dozen
Half a dozen generally refers to the quantity of six, as a dozen is typically defined as twelve.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of half a dozen in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of half a dozen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of half a dozen in a Sentence
There are a half a dozen candidates, plus or minus a little bit, that I would put their names in a hat and draw one out and be really happy as a replacement to the president we have today.
I'm aware that in mid-to-late December, a lot of the agencies here -- to include US Capitol Police, Secret Service, Metropolitan Police Department -- they were involved in pre-coordination meetings about what could happen in the National Capital Region on January 6, i think there were more than half a dozen of those meetings.
Let's say you want to know what people in Kenya think about their government's performance -- with half a dozen clicks of your mouse, you can find out. Our data is a public good -- we want people to use it -- that's the whole point of doing the surveys.
These were attacks by The Islamic Republic of Iran on commercial shipping, on the freedom of navigation, with a clear intent to deny transit through the Strait [ of Hormuz ], the intelligence community has lots of data, lots of evidence -- the world will come to see much of it. But the American people should rest assured we have high confidence with respect to who conducted these attacks as well as half a dozen other attacks throughout the world over the past 40 days.
This is easily going to spill over into the second quarter, there isn't a day that goes by now without half a dozen companies expecting some sort of negative effect.
Translations for half a dozen
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- نصف درزنArabic
- mitja dotzenaCatalan, Valencian
- نیم دوجینPersian
- demi-douzaineFrench
- setengah dozenMalay
- meia dúziaPortuguese
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