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Estate-agent code is a familiar joke, of course: conveniently located for local transport facilities = ` directly overlooking a major railway junction '; offering the purchaser a delightful opportunity to decorate according to his own taste = ` appallingly sleazy'; would benefit from some minor structural improvements = ` falling down, 'and so on.

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  1. noun A systematically arranged and comprehensive collection of laws.
  2. noun A systematic collection of regulations and rules of procedure or conduct: a traffic code.
  3. noun A system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages.

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  • Every religion in accord with the code should be allowed, and every religion out of accord with it proscribed, or a man might be free to have no other religion but the code itself. —  Rousseau
  • You will hear a noise signifying the code was accepted. —  Mortal Kombat ][ SNES FAQ Moves and Secret Guide by Marty Chinn
  • Estate-agent code is a familiar joke, of course: conveniently located for local transport facilities = ` directly overlooking a major railway junction '; offering the purchaser a delightful opportunity to decorate according to his own taste = ` appallingly sleazy'; would benefit from some minor structural improvements = ` falling down, 'and so on. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
  • "It isn't a snake-charmer, as I told him, and I'm not surprised it's been washed and polished." —  Knocked for a Loop
  • Miss Jane Estapoole called and would like you to call her back. —  Knocked for a Loop
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cōdex, book; see codex.

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  1. from French code, from Latin codex, later form of caudex, the trunk of a tree, a wooden tablet for writing on, perhaps orig. *scaudex, a shoot or projection, related to cauda, orig. *scauda, a tail (see cauda, etc.), = English scut, q. v. For the use of wooden tablets in writing, cf. book, liber, bible, paper. See codex.
 

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