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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • broadcasting Suitable for transmission at any time; not urgent or time-dependent.
  • Continually fresh or self-renewing; often used metaphorically.
  • Of a document or dataset, continually up-to-date (as opposed to being published at regular intervals and being slightly outdated in-between those publication dates)
  • Of plants, especially trees, that do not shed their leaves seasonally.

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Noun:

  • A tree or shrub that does not shed its leaves or needles seasonally.
  • colloquial A news story that can be published or broadcast at any time.
  • informal More specifically, a conifer tree.

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Verb:

  • banking To set the repayment rate of a loan at or below the interest rate, so low that the principal will never be repaid.
  • pharmaceuticals To extend the term of a patent beyond the normal legal limit, usually through repeated small modifications.

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