Definitions for wanted
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1. wantedadjective

   desired or wished for or sought

   "couldn't keep her eyes off the wanted toy"; "a wanted criminal"; "a wanted poster"

2. cherished, precious, treasured, wantedadjective

   characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for

   "a cherished friend"; "children are precious"; "a treasured heirloom"; "so good to feel wanted"

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1. wantedadjective

   wished for; desired; sought

2. wantedadjective

   subject to immediate detainment by law enforcement authorities on sight.

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1. Wanted

   of Want

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1. Wanted

   "Wanted" is a popular song written by Jack Fulton and Lois Steele. A recording by Perry Como with Hugo Winterhalter's orchestra and chorus was made at Manhattan Center, New York City, on December 29, 1952. It was released by RCA Victor Recordsas catalog number 20-5647 and by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number B 10691. The flip side of both recordings was "Look out the Window" The most popular recorded version, by Perry Como, reached #1 on Billboard magazine's charts in 1954. The song also reached #1 on the Cash Box chart in the same year. Al Martino also had a top 10 hit with the song in the United Kingdom. Another early recorded version is by singer pianist Moon Mullican. The song was featured in a Christmas episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati", in a flashback to 12/24/54. Anne Murray recorded a cover of the song for her album Croonin'.

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1. wanted

   Song lyrics by wanted -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by wanted on the Lyrics.com website.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'wanted' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #422

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'wanted' in Written Corpus Frequency: #313

How to pronounce wanted?

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

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say wanted in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wanted in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wanted in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of wanted in a Sentence

1. Rich Kushel:

   What if you wanted to drive outcomes like poverty elimination or hunger elimination or the development of medicines?

2. Les Baquiran:

   It's not just people snapping pictures at Dairy Queen. There's a lot going beyond the superficial. There's real business going on here, it would be more intense if everyone from China who wanted to come came.

3. Carol Folt:

   I wanted to be sure that we wouldn't have to do this again and again.

4. Adam Schiff:

   I think what Sean Spicer and the President wanted was to take this spurious claim and try to bury it in a closed hearing in the intelligence committee. We're not going to allow that to happen. We're going to air this very publicly.

5. Joan Laporta:

   There are objective reasons regarding the economical situation at the club and an investment of that volume with the contract of Messi was risky, we wanted to assume those risks, but when we realized the real situation of the club after the audit, it meant that we would have put the club in great risk.

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