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An assistant rector or vicar.
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A parish priest.
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An assistant barman.Ireland
- ‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed. He put his penny on the counter and, leaving the curate to grope for it in the gloom,
curate
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To act as a curator for.transitive
- She curated the traveling exhibition.
- They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.
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To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.broadlytransitive
- What I love about DVRs is that they really allow you to curate your experience of television.
- During the past five years I had the good fortune to be editor of Poetry Northwest. The magazine's mission includes curating a dialogue between poetry, the other arts, and civic life.
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To work or act as a curator.intransitive
- Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.
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An oxyanion of curium; any salt containing such an anion.