1. A mutual agreement to suspend holiday gifts for at least one season, usually within a single family or circle of friends.

2. The act of replacing useless and pointless merchandise with something more meaningful, such as a charitable donation, service project or holiday party.

3. Wal-Mart's biggest nightmare.
> Due to the recession, we've decided that Degifting is the best plan for Christmas this year. Instead, we're all getting together to serve food at the homeless shelter. I really don't need another Salad Shooter. Do you?

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今天我们要学的词是regift。Regift, 意思是把自己收到的没用的礼物拿来转送给别人。最新调查显示,36 % of U.S. adults will regift this year, 美国36%的成年人今年都会把收到的礼物转送给别人。Regifti

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今天我们要学的词是regift。Regift, 意思是把自己收到的没用的礼物拿来转送给别人。最新调查显示,36 % of U.S. adults will regift this year, 美国36%的成年人今年都会把收到的礼物转送给别人。Regifti

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今天我们要学的词是 self-gifting。Self-gifting 自己买礼物送给自己。近年来在美国,Self-gifting has been gaining popularity. 自己给自己买礼物变得越来越流行。美国全国零售业协会的调查显示,People a

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aggregate matrix
air cooling equipment
ANCHEP
annual financial report
anticamera
be controlled by a semi-dominant gene
beachy
bell transformer
benzoxy
Bisayas
bonsai
bottleneck channel
brass ceilings
brotil
BRS (boron recycle system)
bus-tie switch
C-9
calliophis macclellandi swinhoei
common facilities
commutual
conjoined manipulation
countertextual
demesnial
dimeriellopsis theicola
display multiplex data bus
donaciolagria admirabilis
donkeyman
ectangial
employer-employee relationship
epizootic lymphangitis
exopinacoderm
febricitation
fm relay systems
fosse lake
four-roll bending machine
furfuracrolein
Gaddafists
genus oleas
glass-and-metal
gratis dictum
Grosslittgen
group specific substance
high speed flash photography
hill-and-dale
hydroxybenzoic acids
infant-asylum
initial address
intrinsic propesties
justified
karias
linear smoothing algorithm
liopropoma pallidum
liquid steam froth
lothsome
lyginodendron oldhamium potonie
mallocs
mess about
meth mouth
morula biconica
neuromotor apparatus
non-elastic resistance
nonoverlapped
one's eyes are bigger than one's belly
online mall
palpiferous
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permethylations
phenylone
pirazofurin
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pregnation
Priabonian Stage
quail egg
radar beam sharpening element
radar fires
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semen conservation
Serial Digital Interface
shimewaza
shunting yard
skipfest
some fine day
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take-it-or-leave-it
Takoussa
tegmen
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Transoxania
user-selected
vertical yoke current
viburnum sandankwa c.koch v.suspensum lindl.
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Wertheimer's serum agar
wood fibre board
WPCP
yellow cab
yoked muscles