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lie-in

noun 2
lie in verb 2
forms 5

noun2

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(UK) A period spent lying in bed for longer than usual after one has woken up.
- Since I didn't have to go to work, I decided to have a lie-in.
A form of protest where a group of people lie down in a public area.

lie in verb2

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(UK) To stay in bed (longer than usual).
- I've got a day off tomorrow, so I might lie in till about 11.
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(no longer used) To be brought to bed in childbirth.
- he had been driven to it by the distress he mentioned, the greatest indeed imaginable, that of five hungry children, and a wife lying in of the sixth, in the utmost want and misery. — 1749

forms

lay in · lain in · lying in · lies in · lie-ins

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