patricide
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pat·ri·cide
/ ˈpatrəˌsīd/
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n.
the killing of one's father.
∎
a person who kills their father.
DERIVATIVES:
pat·ri·cid·al
/ ˌpatrəˈsīdl/ adj.
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Anaconda Uranium Corporation: Press Release.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 6/18/2002; 700+ words
; TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jun 17, 2002 Anaconda Uranium Corporation ("Anaconda" or the "Company") (TSXV-ANU) wishes to provide...2002. An extraordinary meeting of shareholders of Anaconda will be held on July 17, 2002 (the "meeting...
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Anaconda to Acquire Colorado Minerals Inc.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 9/19/2006; 700+ words
; ...2006 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX) -- Anaconda Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:ANX) (the Company or Anaconda ) is pleased to announce that it has entered...a Canadian company, pursuant to which Anaconda has agreed to acquire all of the issued...
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Anaconda: tall tales about a long snake
Newspaper article from: Redlands Daily Facts; 8/21/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...authenticated length for an anaconda as 27 feet 9 inches...in Brazil in 1960. Anacondas that have been seen...travelogues refer to anaconda's prey as having every...strangulation just described. Anacondas usually lie in wait...record of a 22-foot anaconda killing a 6-foot crocodile...
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Anaconda Gold Closes US$2,500,000 Facility for Completion of the Pine Cove Gold Mine.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 2/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...2007 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX) -- Anaconda Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:ANX)(FRANKFURT...available immediately upon satisfaction by Anaconda Gold of all of conditions precedent as...reduced to 10% per annum. In addition, Anaconda has entered into a Gold Price Protection...
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Anaconda Industries Expansion of Light and Rare Metals.
PR Newswire; 7/27/2000; 700+ words
; ...West Australia, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Anaconda Nickel Limited ("Anaconda") has entered into an agreement with Lynas Corporation Ltd. ("Lynas") under which Anaconda can acquire between 80 and 100% of all metals...
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Anaconda Nickel to Create New Industrial Subsidiary.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 7/27/2000; 700+ words
; PERTH, Western Australia, Jul 26, 2000 Anaconda Nickel Ltd is investigating the most suitable manner...from existing operations and emerging projects within Anaconda. Anaconda's objective has always been, and remains, to be...
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Anaconda Announces Definitive Agreements with Crew Gold and New Island Resources for Custom Milling.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 6/1/2009; 700+ words
; ...ONTARIO, Jun 1, 2009 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Anaconda Mining Inc. ("Anaconda" or the "Company") (TSX:ANX), is pleased...Canada Inc. ("Crew") (TSX:CRU), whereby Anaconda will deliver ore for processing from its Pine...
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Anaconda Mining Completes Carmen Transaction With Penoles
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 9/12/2007; 700+ words
; ...Marketwire - Sept. 12, 2007) - Anaconda Mining Inc. (TSX:ANX)(FRANKFURT...to jointly explore and develop Anaconda's Carmen copper-gold project in the Inca de Oro District, Chile. Anaconda and Penoles agreed earlier to expand...
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Anaconda Gold Engages Dowding, Reynard & Associates Americas for Pine Cove Plant Design and Lease Investment.
Business Wire; 11/9/2005; 700+ words
; TORONTO -- Anaconda Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:ANX) is...International, have been engaged by Anaconda to complete detailed plant engineering...project near Baie Verte, Newfoundland. Anaconda has retained DRAA to provide Anaconda...
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Anaconda Announces Fluor Daniel Faces A$ 1 Billion Claim.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 11/16/2000; 700+ words
; NEW YORK, Nov 15, 2000 Anaconda Operations Pty Ltd. today announced...million and the indemnification of Anaconda by Fluor for all losses, damages...Fluor's breach of contract with Anaconda. Anaconda has also notified Fluor...
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Anaconda Copper
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
ANACONDA COPPER ANACONDA COPPER was one of the largest copper-mining companies in the world...of the Butte district of Montana. It was organized in 1881 as the Anaconda Silver Mining Company when entrepreneur Marcus Daly, having persuaded...
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anaconda
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
anaconda Large, constricting boa of South America, the longest (up to 9m/30ft) and heaviest (up to 500kg/1100lb) snake in the world. Anacondas are mainly aquatic. They feed on birds and small mammals. Females give...
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Anaconda Plan
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Anaconda Plan a military strategy to defeat the Confederacy proposed in 1861 by the...positions all around the periphery of the Confederate States. The “Anaconda Plan” was intended to force surrender without prolonged and bloody...
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Anaconda
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Anaconda , city (1990 pop. 10,278), seat of Deer Lodge co., SW Mont.; inc. 1887. Marcus Daly chose this place (1883) for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company's processing operations, and in the 1890s tried...
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Marcus Daly
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Marcus Daly (1841-1900) founded the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and was a power...purchase a small silver deposit known as the Anaconda from a prospector named Michael Hickey...who provided the capital to develop the Anaconda. Daly's partners were not enthusiastic...
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