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half-hour
half-inch
half-jack
half-length
half-life
half-light
half-line
half-marathon
half-mast
half measure
half-moon
half nelson
half note
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half-mast
half-mast


noun 
Definition:
 
lowered flag honoring dead person: the position, roughly halfway down a flagpole, to which a flag is lowered as a sign of respect when an important person dies

half-mast transitive verb
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