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Definition of Dozens

1. Noun. A large number or amount. "She amassed stacks of newspapers"

Definition of Dozens

1. Noun. (plural of dozen) ¹

2. Noun. A large number. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dozens

1. dozen [v] - See also: dozen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dozens

Literary usage of Dozens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"Dear Sir: Confirming our talk of this morning, it is understood that, in addition to the 2000 dozens, or more, per week, of the grades of wool half hose ..."

2. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1762)
"faid cloths and dozens, holding their length and ... after they be made : and people fo making fuch cloths and dozens, ..."

3. Report on the Growth of Industry in New York by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1904)
"23785 202124 Combination suits: Merino or mixed, dozens 54153 ... Silk or silk mixed, dozens 10271 36327 Leggins and gaiters, dozens 39813 ..."

4. American Druggist (1887)
"... 8.000.000 rhubarb " " " 100*. 8000000 iron " " " 100*. 1000000 Ibs. fluid extracts, " " 25*. ESTIMATED dozens. NET PRICE. PROFIT. ..."

5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"... forced to introduce fictitious compounds, not by dozens only, but by hundreds,— the ... dozens ..."

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