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caging
 n.— «Computer Caging (caging is the direct-mail industry term for collecting money) had raised money for Gann’s fight to preserve Proposition 13 from a legal counter-attack.» —“‘Booming Enterprise’ New Forces Take Political Initiative” by Jay Mathews in Sacramento, Calif. Washington Post July 3, 1984. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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