beleg
Meaning
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- (neuter, uncountable) siege on a city
- (neuter, uncountable) bread topping
Concepts
Frequency
Hyphenated as
be‧leg
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bəˈlɛx/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch belegge, from beleggen (modern beleggen).
New
beleggen
- (transitive) to cover, smear, butter, spread over (e.g. a piece of bread with butter and jam)
- (transitive) to invest money
- (transitive) to convoke, to call a meeting
- (transitive) to belay, to fasten (a rope), to fasten (with rope)
- (transitive) to cover with
- (obsolete, transitive) to plan, to devise
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