present1
/prezz’nt/ • adjective 1 being or occurring in a particular place. 2 existing or occurring now. 3 Grammar (of a tense or participle) expressing an action now going on or habitually performed, or a condition now existing. • noun 1 (the present) the period of time now occurring. 2 Grammar a present tense or form of a verb. — PHRASES at present now. for the present for now; temporarily. these presents Law, formal this document. — ORIGIN Latin praesens ‘being at hand’, from praeesse ‘be before’.
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