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NEVER-NEVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The remote outback of Australia; unpopulated desert country
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
outback (the bush country of the interior of Australia)
Holonyms ("Never-Never" is a part of...):
Australian Desert; Great Australian Desert (general name given to all desert areas in Australia)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Installment plan
Example:
we bought a car on the never-never
Synonyms:
hire-purchase; never-never
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("never-never" is a kind of...):
installment buying; installment plan; time plan (a system for paying for goods by installments)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
