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Stans

[ shtahns ]

noun

  1. a town in and the capital of Nidwalden, in central Switzerland.


Stans

1

/ ʃٲԲ /

noun

  1. a town in central Switzerland, capital of Nidwalden demicanton, 11 km (7 miles) southeast of Lucerne: tourist centre. Pop: 6983 (2000)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Stans

2

/ æԳ /

plural noun

  1. the Stans
    a region in Central Asia that consists of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Though “1923” has already grown its audience significantly in its second and final season, there should be no shame in reaching out to the stans of another highly successful historical fiction series.

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He does plan to write two more memoirs, so those Microsoft-history stans should be satisfied.

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No questions were asked by establishment media outlets of Stans about giving the funds to the burglars.

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On the first day of the Republican National Convention in 1972, it was reported that some of the money found on the burglars passed through the hands of one of Nixon’s campaign finance chairmen, Maurice Stans, who was present at the convention.

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Stans would later plead guilty to having given campaign funds to G. Gordon Liddy, one of the burglars.

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