bar

Slang for one million dollars. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary

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▪ I. bar bar ¹ [bɑː ǁ bɑːr] verb barred _PTandPPX barring _PRESPARTX [transitive]

to officially stop someone from doing something or from entering a place:

bar somebody from (doing) something

• He has been barred from the securities and investment advisory business.

• Foreign investors would be barred from buying majority stakes.

  [m0] ▪ II. bar bar ² also Bar noun LAW

1. the bar the profession of a barrister, or barristers in general:

• In 1988, she was called to the bar (= became a barrister ) and she now practises in London, specialising in criminal and family law.

• He has now passed his Bar Examination (= the examination you must pass in order to become a barrister ) .

2. the bar a word for the legal profession, used in the names of professional associations of lawyers:

• the New Jersey State Bar Association

— see also American Bar Association

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bar UK US /bɑː^r/ noun [C]

► something that prevents a particular event or development from happening: a bar (to sth) »

A lack of formal education does not have to be a bar to success in business and politics.

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bar UK US /bɑː^r/ verb [T] (-rr-)

► LAW to prevent something or someone from doing something or going somewhere, or to refuse to allow something: bar sb/sth from (doing) sth »

Lawyers on both sides have been barred from discussing the case in the press.

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The government voted to bar the import of exotic birds.