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SUMMARY TREATMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A brief and unsympathetic rejection
Example:
they made short shrift of my request
Synonyms:
short shrift; summary treatment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("summary treatment" is a kind of...):
rejection (the speech act of rejecting)
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