petty : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a person with the senior noncommissioned naval rank
  

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• noun racial segregation enforced primarily in public transportation and hotels and restaurants and other public places
  

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• . See under Average.

Webster 1913

• noun lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.)
  petit bourgeois; petite bourgeoisie.
  

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• noun a small fund of cash that a firm keeps for the payment of incidental expenses
  

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• money expended or received in small items or amounts.

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• noun a petty disparagement
  detraction.
  

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• noun a member of a petit jury
  petit juror.
  

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• noun a jury of 12 to determine the facts and decide the issue in civil or criminal proceedings
  petit jury.
  

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• noun larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)
  petit larceny; petty.
  

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• noun unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico
  life-of-man; American spikenard; Aralia racemosa.
  

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• noun a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
  PO; P.O..
  

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• a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc., corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army.

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• noun an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States
  devil's milk; Euphorbia peplus.
  

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• noun prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
  Genista anglica; needle furze; broom tree.
  

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• noun a senior noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to master sergeant in the Army
  SCPO.
  

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