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wantage

(ˈwɒntɪdʒ)
n
US a deficit or dearth
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wantage

n (US Econ) → Fehlbetrag m, → Defizit nt
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You'll have to hear all about Wantage, the birthplace of Alfred, and Farringdon, which held out so long for Charles the First (the Vale was near Oxford, and dreadfully malignant--full of Throgmortons, Puseys, and Pyes, and such like; and their brawny retainers).
Only one coach ran there, and this one only from Wantage to London, so that the western part of the Vale was without regular means of moving on, and certainly didn't seem to want them.
On August 29 the following year police raided another house in Wantage, also Woodside, and again found Drennan with cannabis.
He was retired IN 2005 and spent his retirement with 1972 Grand National winning jockey Graham Thorner at Letcombe Regis, near Wantage.
Sussex Bank operates through its regional offices and corporate centres in Wantage and Rockaway, New Jersey, its eleven branch offices located in Andover, Augusta, Franklin, Hackettstown, Newton, Montague, Sparta, Vernon, Oradell and Wantage, New Jersey, and Astoria, New York, and a loan production office in Oradell, New Jersey.
CHAMPIONS Northamptonshire were knocked out of the NatWest T20 Blast after their final North Group match against Durham was abandoned after heavy rain at Wantage Road.
"He just ticks over doesn't he," said Yorkshire coach Andrew Gale ahead of today's floodlit clash with Northamptonshire at Wantage Road (2.00).
OFF-SPINNER Kiran Carlson took five for 28 on his first-class debut as Glamorgan bowled Northamptonshire out for 269 on the opening day of their County Championship Division Two clash at Wantage Road.
OFF.SPINNER Kiran Carlson took five for 28 on his firstclass debut as Glamorgan bowled Northamptonshire out for 269 on the opening day of their County Championship Division Two clash at Wantage Road.
JOE Leach's third five-wicket haul of the season and 81 from Brett D'Oliveira put Worcestershire in complete control on the second day against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road.
Concrete announced that it acquired the Wantage Stone reserves, a site development quarry including an 80-acre land parcel along with mining rights to an additional 77 acres of land located in Hamburg, N.J.