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But a win is a win, and so the White House strategy is to take the long view: Maybe the Senate will take out more of the controversial pork projects and tweak the tax cuts to win over more Republicans.

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  1. intransitive verb To achieve victory or finish first in a competition.
  2. intransitive verb To achieve success in an effort or venture: struggled to overcome the handicap and finally won.
  3. transitive verb To achieve victory or finish first in.
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  • Other teams should want to pay more for desirable free agents than the Pirates do, because the value of an extra win is a lot greater for an 85-win team than it is for a 67-win team. —  Bucs Dugout
  • I'm sure it's not true but when Maine ran into trouble last night the team just deflated and even when they rallied in the ninth it didn't feel like the win was there for the taking. —  The Feed
  • Delsea's reward for the win is a Thursday meeting at top-seeded Ocean City. —  CourierPostOnline.com - News
  • But a win is a win - and just what we need as we head into three straight away games. —  East Lower
  • Similar to Michigan, the win was anything but pretty, setting up next week's game between the Wolverines and Fighting Irish to be a battle of ugliness. —  Michigan Sports Center
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victory ·  winner ·  defeat ·  try ·  find ·  show ·  match ·  run ·  vote ·  take ·  lead ·  kill

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win:   won ·  winning ·  wins
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  1. Middle English winnen, from Old English winnan, to fight, strive; see wen-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English winnen, wynnen (preterit wan, won, plural wunnen, wonnen, past participle wunnen, wonnen, wunne), from Anglo-Saxon winnan (preterit wan, won, past participle wunnen), fight, labor, con tend, endure, suffer, = Old Saxon winnan = OFries. winna = D. Low German winnen = Old High German giwinnan, Middle High German G. gewinnen, attain by labor, win, conquer, get, = Icelandic vinna = Swedish vinna = Danish vinde (for *vinne), work, toil, win, = Goth, winnan (preterit wann, past participle wunnans), suffer, endure pain; cf. Sanskrit √ van, get, win, also hold dear. From the same root are ult. English winsome, wean, ween, wone, wont.
  2. Abbr. of wind, v.
 

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