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The tenents know how to lie about references and they often put their family members down saying they rented from them-the landlord calls to check reference, not knowing the reference is actually a family member and then he gets the smooth line that sucks him into renting to another terrible tenent.

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  1. noun An act of referring: filed away the article for future reference.
  2. noun Significance in a specified context: Her speeches have special reference to environmental policy.
  3. noun Meaning or denotation.
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  • "The only other reference is a Times story last month about the rededication of a new archive at the Sanford Foundation — that's the old mansion on Eighty-first." —  The Twelfth Card
  • Your call asking for a reference was the first I'd heard of her since she left. —  Muller, Marcia - [20] - While Other People Sleep
  • It will be found that in all the logical paradoxes there is a kind of reflexive self-reference which is to be condemned on the same ground: viz. —  My Philosophical Development
  • Through sheer determination, I managed to focus my mind on the words in front of me, though every time I came across a reference to Sophia , the Greek word meaning “wisdom,” the figure of Mary would stir gently in the back of my mind. —  A Letter of Mary - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 03
  • He knew at whom the reference was aimed Before more could be said, there was movement behind the man who had been speaking and another fellow appeared. —  037 - The Metal Master
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  1. from French référence =Spanish Portuguese referencia =Italian riferenza, from Middle Latin *referentia, from Latin referen (t-)s, present participle of referre, refer: see refer.
 

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