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1.
A ~ is a very large, upright piece of stone, especially one that was put in place in ancient times.
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2.
If you refer to an organization or system as a ~, you are critical of it because it is very large and very slow to change, and it does not seem to have different parts with different characters.
A deal between the two powerful institutions would have created a banking ~.
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