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next door

  • adverb at or in or to the adjacent residence
    in the adjacent apartment; in the adjacent house.
    • the criminal had been living next door all this time
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Next friend

  • noun (law) a person who acts on behalf of an infant or disabled person
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  • (Law), one who represents an infant, a married woman, or any person who can not appear sui juris, in a suit at law.
Webster 1913

next of kin

  • noun the person who is (or persons who are) most closely related to a given person
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next-to-last

  • adjective satellite next to the last
    penultimate.
    • the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter
    • the figures in the next-to-last column
  • adjective satellite used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college
    junior; third-year.
    • the junior class
    • a third-year student
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