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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
event/ɪˈvent/
▶noun
  • 1 a thing that takes place.

    ■ a public or social occasion.

  • 2 each of several contests making up a sports competition.
  • 3 Physics a single occurrence of a process, e.g. the ionization of one atom.
– phrases
in any event (or at all events) whatever happens or may have happened.
in the event
  • 1 as it turned out.
  • 2 (in the event of/that) if (the specified thing) happens.
– derivatives
eventless adjective,
eventlessness noun.
– origin C16: from L. eventus, from evenire ‘result, happen’.



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