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• noun 1 a building for housing horses. 2 an establishment where racehorses are kept and trained. 3 an establishment producing particular types of people or things. • verb put or keep (a horse) in a stable. — ORIGIN Old French estable ‘stable, pigsty’, from Latin stabulum.
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