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A few days ago, I wrote about an employment announcement on Hamra street written in English - without a word of Arabic - and requesting that the staff speak English, and possibly French - with no mention of Arabic.

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  1. adverb On the outside: a sturdy structure within and without.
  2. adverb With something absent or lacking: had to do without.
  3. preposition Not having; lacking: a family without a car.
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  • The Pseudo - Rashi on Alfasi,[54] following the manuscripts, sometimes presents a German translation now with, now without the French word Rashi's Biblical and Talmudic commentaries contain 3157 laazim, of which 967 occur in the Biblical commentaries and 2190 in the Talmudic, forming in the two commentaries together a vocabulary of about two thousand different words. —  Rashi
  • SIS Maki uses a unique slang word to refer to Ryoko, which is "ONEE" (oh-NAY) in Japanese, without the SAN ending. —  Mininova
  • My problem now is that I have a DVD in Danish without English subtitles that I want my non Danish wife to see. —  VideoHelp.com Forum
  • The measure is the latest in a series of English-only legislation around the country, but Georgia is believed to be the only state that would have a law requiring that drivers take the written test in English without a translator or other aid. —  Ledger-Enquirer: Breaking News
  • I can't say anything about the content of these assemblies because they were all conducted in Portuguese without translation. —  Progressive Bloggers
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  1. Middle English withoute, from Old English withūtan : with, with; see with + ūtan, from without (from ūt, out; see out).

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  1. from Middle English withoute, withouten, withute, withuten, witute, wituten, from Anglo-Saxon withūtan (= Icelandic vithutan), on the outside of, from with, against, + ūtan, outside, from without: see out.
 

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