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rand

UK/ɹand/ US/ɹænd/ fairly common uk

noun

1.

the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents

2.

United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982)

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a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese

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From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.

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