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dozens

The correct spelling is dozens.

How to pronounce dozens

noun

Say it like: Doz-ens

The correct spelling is dozens. A set of twelve. For example: "Can I have a dozen eggs, please?"

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Can I have a dozen eggs, please?

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Definition

noun

  1. 1.A set of twelve.
  2. 2.(as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.
  3. 3.An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
  4. 4.(usually with "the") A verbal game in which two or more people exchange witty insults.

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