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conjoint

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con·joint  (kn-joint)
adj.
1. Joined together; combined: "social order and prosperity, the conjoint aims of government" (John K. Fairbank).
2. Of, consisting of, or involving two or more combined or associated entities; joint.
[Middle English, from Old French, past participle of conjoindre, to conjoin; see conjoin.]
con·jointly adv.
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Adj.1.conjoint - consisting of two or more associated entities; "the interplay of these conjoined yet opposed factors"; "social order and prosperity, the conjoint aims of government"- J.K.Fairbank
conjoined
joint - united or combined; "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners"


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Most of the students took the curriculum of the Conjoint Board of the College of Surgeons and the College of Physicians; but the more ambitious or the more industrious added to this the longer studies which led to a degree from the University of London.
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His calicoes were the finest, or, in other words, the most showy, of any that were brought into the country, and it was impossible to look at the prices asked for his goods by” so pretty a spoken man,” Through these conjoint means, the affairs of Monsieur Le Quoi were again in a prosperous condition, and he was looked up to by the settlers as the second best man on the
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The surface of the soil thus held in conjoint ownership was hard and carefully swept, but intersected by open drains.
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