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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - pickings

 
 

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Pickings

pickings
You can refer to the money that can be made easily in a particular place or area of activity as the pickings. Traditional hiding places are easy pickings for experienced burglars... N-PLURAL: usu supp N
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1.
   noun plural  Date: 1642 something that is picked or picked up: as  a. gleanable or eatable fragments ; scraps  b. yield or return for effort expended easy ~ slim ~ ...
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
  n.pl. 1 perquisites; pilferings (rich pickings). 2 remaining scraps; gleanings. ...
Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
  ~ n informal rich/easy ~ money or profits that you can get easily  (There were rich pickings to be had if you played the stock market.) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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