agora

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The trader who cheats in the agora is a liar and is perjured--he respects neither the name of God nor the regulations of the magistrates.

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  1. noun A place of congregation, especially an ancient Greek marketplace.
  2. noun See Table at currency.

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  • As he turned a corner near the agora, a soldier stepped out in his path Where are you going, friend?' —  David Gemmell - (Lion of Macedon 01) Lion Of Macedon v1.0 (1990).htm
  • Instead of a forum they had an agora, always a bad start. —  Two For The Lions
  • A partir de agora, Ciência Hoje cria uma nova secção intitulada Portuguese Science». —  Ciencia Hoje - Noticias
  • Far from functioning like an egalitarian agora, the Republic of Letters suffered from the same disease that ate through all societies in the eighteenth century: privilege. —  The New York Review of Books
  • Automobiles and refrigeration / AC helped strike a death-knell to the agora, the public commons, where people's lives and minds became intertwined. —  The Raleigh Chronicle
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  1. Greek agorā; see ger- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Hebrew 'ăgôrâ, from 'āgar, to hire; see אgr in Semitic roots.

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  1. from Greek ἀγορά, assembly, market-place, from ἀγείρειν, call together, assemble.
 

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