as-live
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adjective, adverb
(of a performance for a television programme) performed as though live but broadcast after a short delay to allow for the editing of mistakes, bad language, etc
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asleep at the switch, ASLEF, AS level, ASLIB, as likely as not, as-live, as long as, aslope, aslosh, as luck would have it, ASM
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