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non-negotiable (oh) and quadrille(2) (iou)


non-negotiable (oh)



adj
a non-negotiable principle or belief is one that you refuse to discuss or change
::He emphasized that the government's anti-nuclear position was non-negotiable.
a cheque, bond etc that is non-negotiable can only be exchanged for money by the person whose name is on it

quadrille(2) (iou)



quadrille noun1. E18.
[French, perh. from Spanish cuartillo (from cuarto fourth) with assim. to French QUADRILLE noun2.]
A card-game, fashionable in the 18th cent., played by four people with forty cards, the eights, nines, and tens of the ordinary pack being discarded.