See Also: murder 1, noun(dictionary)
finance 1, noun(dictionary)
TERRAPLANET Limited(finance)
Murder(medicine)
murder(2)(dictionary)
Murder, Inc.(encyclopedia)
Murder(law)
murder(1)(dictionary)
Premeditated Murder(law)
Felony Murder(law)

TERRAPLANET Limited (finance) and murder 1, noun (oh)


TERRAPLANET Limited (finance)


TERRAPLANET Limited is a large Australian company in the field of media. Their Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) code is TPL.





murder 1, noun (oh)



[Origin: Partly from Old English morthor, partly from Old French murdre]
[U and C] the crime of deliberately killing someone
-see also manslaughter manslaughter
::On the night the murder was committed , he was out of the country.
:: The man accused of her murder will appear in court today.
murder of
::the brutal murder of a young child
:: He was found guilty of attempted murder .
::She was charged with two counts of first degree murder .
:: The mother of the murder victim wept in court.
:: Police are still searching for the murder weapon .
::Detectives have launched a murder investigation .
get away with murder
informal to do anything you want, even things that are wrong, without being punished
::She lets those kids get away with murder.
be murder
spoken to be very difficult or unpleasant
::It's murder doing the shopping on Saturdays.
::The traffic was murder this morning.
be murder on sth
spoken to harm or damage something else
::These new shoes are murder on my feet.
-see also scream blue murder at scream 1 (1)
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COLLOCATES for sense 1
commit (a) murder
investigate a murder
accuse somebody of murder/charge somebody with murder
a brutal murder
attempted murder (=the crime of trying to kill someone)
first-degree murder American English (=the most serious type of murder under US law)
mass murder (=of a large number of people)
murder victim
murder weapon
murder investigation/inquiry
murder case/trial
murder charge