robert : Idioms & Phrases

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anne robert jacques turgot

  • noun French economist who in 1774 was put in control of finances by Louis XVI; his proposals for reforms that involved abolishing feudal privileges made him unpopular with the aristocracy and in 1776 he was dismissed (1727-1781)
    Turgot.
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arthur robert ashe

  • noun United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993)
    Ashe; Arthur Ashe.
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bartholomew roberts

  • noun a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722)
    Roberts.
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charles robert darwin

  • noun English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)
    Darwin; Charles Darwin.
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charles robert redford

  • noun United States actor and filmmaker who starred with Paul Newman in several films (born in 1936)
    Redford; Charles Robert Redford.
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donald robert perry marquis

  • noun humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)
    Don Marquis; Marquis.
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gustav robert kirchhoff

  • noun German physicist who with Bunsen pioneered spectrum analysis and formulated two laws governing electric networks (1824-1887)
    G. R. Kirchhoff; Kirchhoff.
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henry m. robert

  • noun United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)
    Robert; Henry M. Robert.
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henry martyn robert

  • noun United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)
    Robert; Henry M. Robert.
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herb robert

  • noun a sticky low herb with small reddish-purple flowers; widespread in the northern hemisphere
    herb roberts; Geranium robertianum; herb robert.
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herb roberts

  • noun a sticky low herb with small reddish-purple flowers; widespread in the northern hemisphere
    herb roberts; Geranium robertianum; herb robert.
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herbs robert

  • noun a sticky low herb with small reddish-purple flowers; widespread in the northern hemisphere
    herb roberts; Geranium robertianum; herb robert.
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kenneth roberts

  • noun United States writer remembered for his historical novels about colonial America (1885-1957)
    Roberts.
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leroy robert paige

  • noun United States baseball player; a black pitcher noted for his longevity (1906-1982)
    Paige; Satchel Paige.
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oral roberts

  • noun United States evangelist (born 1918)
    Roberts.
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otto robert frisch

  • noun British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission; Frisch described the explosive potential of a chain nuclear reaction (1904-1979)
    Otto Frisch; Frisch.
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rene-robert cavelier

  • noun French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687)
    Sieur de LaSalle; LaSalle.
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richard j. roberts

  • noun United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943)
    Roberts; Richard J. Roberts.
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richard john roberts

  • noun United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943)
    Roberts; Richard J. Roberts.
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robert a. heinlein

  • noun United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988)
    Robert A. Heinlein; Heinlein.
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robert abram bartlett

  • noun United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946)
    Bartlett; Robert Abram Bartlett; Captain Bob.
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robert adam

  • noun Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792)
    Adam.
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robert alexander schumann

  • noun German romantic composer known for piano music and songs (1810-1856)
    Schumann; Robert Alexander Schumann.
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robert andrews millikan

  • noun United States physicist who isolated the electron and measured its charge (1868-1953)
    Millikan.
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robert anson heinlein

  • noun United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988)
    Robert A. Heinlein; Heinlein.
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robert barany

  • noun Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for testing the middle ear (1876-1936)
    Barany.
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robert bartlett

  • noun United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946)
    Bartlett; Robert Abram Bartlett; Captain Bob.
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robert benchley

  • noun United States humorist (1889-1945)
    Benchley; Robert Benchley.
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robert boyle

  • noun Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691)
    Boyle.
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robert brown

  • noun Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
    Brown.
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robert browning

  • noun English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)
    Browning.
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robert bruce mathias

  • noun United States athlete who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon (born in 1930)
    Mathias; Bob Mathias.
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robert bunsen

  • noun German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)
    Bunsen; Robert Bunsen.
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robert burns

  • noun celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796)
    Burns.
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robert burns woodward

  • noun United States chemist honored for synthesizing complex organic compounds (1917-1979)
    Woodward; Robert Burns Woodward; Bob Woodward.
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robert charles benchley

  • noun United States humorist (1889-1945)
    Benchley; Robert Benchley.
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robert charles venturi

  • noun United States architect (born in 1925)
    Venturi; Robert Charles Venturi.
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robert clive

  • noun British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774)
    Baron Clive; Clive; Baron Clive of Plassey.
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robert curl

  • noun American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
    Curl; Robert F. Curl; Robert Curl.
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robert de niro

  • noun United States film actor who frequently plays tough characters (born 1943)
    De Niro.
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robert e lee day

  • noun celebrated in southern United States
    Robert E Lee Day; Lee's Birthday; January 19.
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robert e lee's birthday

  • noun celebrated in southern United States
    Robert E Lee Day; Lee's Birthday; January 19.
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robert e. lee

  • noun American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)
    Robert E. Lee; Lee.
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robert e. peary

  • noun United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
    Robert Edwin Peary; Peary; Robert E. Peary.
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robert edward lee

  • noun American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)
    Robert E. Lee; Lee.
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robert edwin peary

  • noun United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
    Robert Edwin Peary; Peary; Robert E. Peary.
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robert emmet sherwood

  • noun United States playwright (1896-1955)
    Sherwood.
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robert f. curl

  • noun American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
    Curl; Robert F. Curl; Robert Curl.
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robert falcon scott

  • noun English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912)
    Robert Falcon Scott; Scott.
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robert floyd curl jr.

  • noun American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
    Curl; Robert F. Curl; Robert Curl.
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robert frost

  • noun United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)
    Frost; Robert Frost.
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robert fulton

  • noun American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)
    Fulton.
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robert graves

  • noun English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985)
    Robert Graves; Graves.
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robert gray

  • noun American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
    Gray.
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robert herrick

  • noun English lyric poet (1591-1674)
    Herrick.
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robert hooke

  • noun English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703)
    Hooke.
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robert hutchings goddard

  • noun United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945)
    Goddard.
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robert i

  • noun king of Scotland from 1306 to 1329; defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329)
    Bruce; Robert I.
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robert indiana

  • noun United States pop artist (born 1928)
    Indiana.
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robert james fischer

  • noun United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943)
    Bobby Fischer; Fischer.
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robert jemison van de graaff

  • noun United States physicist (1901-1967)
    Robert Jemison Van de Graaff; Van de Graaff.
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robert joffrey

  • noun United States choreographer (1930-1988)
    Joffrey.
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robert king merton

  • noun United States sociologist (1910-2003)
    Robert King Merton; Merton.
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robert koch

  • noun German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910)
    Koch.
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robert lee frost

  • noun United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)
    Frost; Robert Frost.
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robert louis balfour stevenson

  • noun Scottish author (1850-1894)
    Stevenson; Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson.
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robert louis stevenson

  • noun Scottish author (1850-1894)
    Stevenson; Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson.
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robert lowell

  • noun United States poet (1917-1977)
    Lowell; Robert Lowell.
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robert m. yerkes

  • noun United States psychologist who studied the intelligence of primates (1876-1956)
    Yerkes; Robert M. Yerkes.
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robert macgregor

  • noun Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734)
    MacGregor; Rob Roy.
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robert maynard hutchins

  • noun United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977)
    Hutchins.
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robert mearns yerkes

  • noun United States psychologist who studied the intelligence of primates (1876-1956)
    Yerkes; Robert M. Yerkes.
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robert merton

  • noun United States sociologist (1910-2003)
    Robert King Merton; Merton.
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robert mills

  • noun United States architect who was the presidentially appointed architect of Washington D.C. (1781-1855)
    Mills.
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robert mitchum

  • noun United States film actor (1917-1997)
    Mitchum.
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robert morris

  • noun leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army (1734-1806)
    Morris.
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robert motherwell

  • noun United States abstract expressionist painter (1915-1991)
    Motherwell.
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robert nesta marley

  • noun Jamaican singer who popularized reggae (1945-1981)
    Bob Marley; Marley.
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robert oppenheimer

  • noun United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967)
    Oppenheimer.
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robert orr

  • noun Canadian hockey player (born 1948)
    Bobby Orr; Orr.
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robert owen

  • noun Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
    Owen.
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robert peary

  • noun United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
    Robert Edwin Peary; Peary; Robert E. Peary.
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robert peel

  • noun British politician (1788-1850)
    Robert Peel; Peel.
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robert penn warren

  • noun United States writer and poet (1905-1989)
    Warren.
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robert r. livingston

  • noun American Revolutionary leader who served in the Continental Congress and as minister to France (1746-1813)
    Livingston.
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robert ranke graves

  • noun English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985)
    Robert Graves; Graves.
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robert redford

  • noun United States actor and filmmaker who starred with Paul Newman in several films (born in 1936)
    Redford; Charles Robert Redford.
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robert robinson

  • noun English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)
    Robert Robinson; Robinson.
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robert schumann

  • noun German romantic composer known for piano music and songs (1810-1856)
    Schumann; Robert Alexander Schumann.
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robert scott

  • noun English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912)
    Robert Falcon Scott; Scott.
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robert southey

  • noun English poet and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1774-1843)
    Southey.
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robert the bruce

  • noun king of Scotland from 1306 to 1329; defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329)
    Bruce; Robert I.
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robert traill spence lowell jr.

  • noun United States poet (1917-1977)
    Lowell; Robert Lowell.
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robert treat paine

  • noun American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1731-1814)
    Paine.
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robert tyre jones

  • noun United States golfer (1902-1971)
    Jones; Bobby Jones.
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robert van de graaff

  • noun United States physicist (1901-1967)
    Robert Jemison Van de Graaff; Van de Graaff.
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robert venturi

  • noun United States architect (born in 1925)
    Venturi; Robert Charles Venturi.
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robert walpole

  • noun Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745)
    Walpole; First Earl of Orford; Robert Walpole.
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robert wilhelm bunsen

  • noun German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)
    Bunsen; Robert Bunsen.
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robert william service

  • noun Canadian writer (born in England) who wrote about life in the Yukon Territory (1874-1958)
    Service.
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robert woodrow wilson

  • noun United States physicist honored for his work on cosmic microwave radiation (born in 1918)
    Wilson.
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robert woodward

  • noun United States chemist honored for synthesizing complex organic compounds (1917-1979)
    Woodward; Robert Burns Woodward; Bob Woodward.
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robert's rules of order

  • noun a book of rules for presiding over a meeting; written by Henry M. Martin in 1876 and subsequently updated through many editions
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sir robert eric mortimer wheeler

  • noun Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976)
    Sir Mortimer Wheeler; Wheeler.
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sir robert peel

  • noun British politician (1788-1850)
    Robert Peel; Peel.
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sir robert robinson

  • noun English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)
    Robert Robinson; Robinson.
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sir robert walpole

  • noun Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745)
    Walpole; First Earl of Orford; Robert Walpole.
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thomas robert malthus

  • noun an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)
    Malthus; Thomas Malthus.
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