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If you say that there is a ~ need for something, you mean that there is a very great need for it.
There is a ~ need for more magistrates from the ethnic minority communities.
PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR n
2.
You can say that something is a ~ shame if you are annoyed and upset about it.
It’s a ~ shame that police have to put up with these mindless attacks.
PHRASE: v-link PHR, oft it v-link PHR that feelings
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see also cry