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rif
1[ rif ]
verb (used with object)
- to discharge (a person) from military or civil service, especially as part of an economy program.
Rif
2[ rif ]
noun
- Er [er], a mountainous coastal region in N Morocco.
RIF
3[ rif ]
noun
- Military. a reduction in the personnel of an armed service or unit.
- a reduction in the number of persons employed by a business, government department, etc., especially for budgetary reasons.
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Example Sentences
Those fissures were exacerbated by the tribal divisions that structure rif society in the north.
Wheat and maize—or, as it is called in the Sudan, "Aish er rif" (Egyptian bread)—ripens in forty days.
There's a herb called rif in your own garden is good for cures.
His country is one day east of Tetuan, in the Rif mountains.
During the year, also, the Rif pirates gave trouble on the shores of northern Africa.
Epiperipheral, ep-i-pe-rif′e-ral, adj. situated on the periphery or outer surface of the body.
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