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📖 Определения и значения для слова ply

📒 to travel regularly along a particular route or between two particular places

  • + adv./prep. Ferries ply across a narrow strait to the island.
  • The train plies twice a day between Paris and Madrid.
  • Buses ply regularly to and from these places.

📒 to use a tool, especially with skill

  • The tailor delicately plied his needle.

📒 to look for customers, passengers, etc. in order to do business

  • taxis plying for hire outside the theatre

📒 to do your work or business

  • This is the restaurant where he plied his trade as a cook.
  • Drug dealers openly plied their trade in front of children.
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