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    neat


    1. Lo and behold, it's like a completely different place -- the farmhouse is completely rebuilt and in excellent condition, there are plenty of cattle and other livestock happily munching on feed in well-fenced pens, and the fields are filled with crops planted in neat rows


    2. Neat, clean tatami mats line the floors


    3. He stared at the neat and diminutive man in front of him


    4. This part of it seemed pretty neat


    5. ’ I agreed, joining him in his contemplation of the very neat grass


    6. He wore a neat medium length thick black beard and a brown military uniform without insignia of rank


    7. After a thoroughly enjoyable half hour, debating the relative merits of the various plants on offer, I decide to buy a rather nice little Areca palm … small and neat … just right for the middle of the table; I splash out on a pretty pot to stand it in – my reward for having made a good start at The Laurels


    8. That first night we smoked ourselves silly, knocking back our bottled water as if it were neat vodka, becoming giddy with the sound of each other’s voices


    9. Brasil was a place daddy was from, a distant curiosity with some neat features like carnival costumes and caipirinhas


    10. She took a wherry across the river to the Southwark side where the warehouse was situated, strolling along the lanes behind the Shakespearean theatre where herb gardens, supplying the nearby centre for the Herbmasters, occupied neat little patches of ground carefully tended by a cadre of gotteswomen specially trained for the purpose, the purple outfits of their calling showing up clearly as they toiled amongst the neat rows of plants

    11. Ten minutes later he came down the stairs looking neat and well rested


    12. so there’s nothing but win-win-win in this neat little race,


    13. Wiesse has arranged for me to be supplied with a neat backpack for daily use and a holdall for all the other stuff


    14. By the light of week Ekendosa, the countryside was crowded but lovely, neat little farms beneath big-frond archwoods along the bank between meanders, little towns on the deep side of just about every meander, beaches on the other side


    15. It was more than one page of neat, small print


    16. “After all,” she said to herself as she unpacked the boxes and made neat piles of the cards and the packets of paper leaves, “I always enjoyed art classes at school and it can’t be that hard to make a few hundred of them”


    17. “Wow! That was neat! You guys are great!” A dragon enthusiast had replaced the scared little boy of a few minutes ago; his face was all smiles now


    18. separated from the whites and sat down in two neat sections


    19. were bags of powders and pills and some neat piles of ready cash


    20. made neat piles of the cards and the packets of paper leaves, “I

    21. By ten, with a neat heap of boxes stacked against the wall in the lounge, we survey the empty bookcase with satisfaction


    22. She placed the glasses in a neat row on the


    23. He followed him out the door and around to the back of the house where stacks of boards lay in neat rows


    24. It was neat, but it was hard to believe somebody


    25. “Scotch, neat, for me, thank you,” ordered Mr


    26. Like Harry before her, it was satisfying to her sense of wholeness, to balance ledgers and keep entries in neat and orderly columns and rows


    27. At first the landscape was that of a patchwork quilt, neat almost square sections flanked the road, slowly giving way to a rocky terrain, dotted with small pines, and then they were engulfed in a dense forest


    28. The testosterone in my blood stream always had a neat way of washing


    29. Max pulled out a neat stack of money and laid it on the counter as Dogey


    30. It is beautiful country by any standards, mainly wooded but with plenty of neat, small farms

    31. directions, and neat paths beckoned the walker on


    32. I followed him in, and I remember seeing the difference between the neat, bright doctor, with his powdered wig, as white as snow and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, and , with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting, drunk on rum, with his arms on the table


    33. It was a neat little thing, and I had stretched out my hand to pick it up when there was a horrible cry


    34. It is this surplus only which is neat or clear profit


    35. Whether it was the welcoming aspect of the neat, compact


    36. They stopped in many kinds of wilds, hilly jungle and shaftwood covered peaks a lot like Wescarp, neat farmland and small inns, open prairie like the wilds along the Lhar


    37. But though the whole value of the annual produce of the land and labour of every country, is thus divided among, and constitutes a revenue to, its different inhabitants ; yet, as in the rent of a private estate, we distinguish between the gross rent and the neat rent, so may we likewise in the revenue of all the inhabitants of a great country


    38. The gross rent of a private estate comprehends whatever is paid by the farmer; the neat rent, what remains free to the landlord, after deducting the expense of management, of repairs, and all other necessary charges; or what, without hurting his estate, he can afford to place in his stock reserved for immediate consumption, or to spend upon his table, equipage, the ornaments of his house and furniture, his private enjoyments and amusements


    39. His real wealth is in proportion, not to his gross, but to his neat rent


    40. The gross revenue of all the inhabitants of a great country comprehends the whole annual produce of their land and labour; the neat revenue, what remains free to them, after deducting the expense of maintaining first, their fixed, and, secondly, their circulating capital, or what, without encroaching upon their capital, they can place in their stock reserved for immediate consumption, or spend upon their subsistence

    41. Their real wealth, too, is in proportion, not to their gross, but to their neat revenue


    42. The expense of repairs may frequently be necessary for supporting the produce of the estate, and consequently both the gross and the neat rent of the landlord


    43. When by a more proper direction, however, it can be diminished without occasioning any diminution of produce, the gross rent remains at least the same as before, and the neat rent is necessarily augmented


    44. Money, therefore, is the only part of the circulating capital of a society, of which the maintenance can occasion any diminution in their neat revenue


    45. require a certain expense, first to erect them, and afterwards to support them, both which expenses, though they make a part of the gross, are deductions from the neat revenue of the society ; so the stock of money which circulates in any country must require a certain expense, first to collect it, and afterwards to support it; both which expenses, though they make a part of the gross, are, in the same manner, deductions from the neat revenue of the society


    46. which compose the fixed capital, bear this further resemblance to that part of the circulating capital which consists in money; that as every saving in the expense of erecting and supporting those machines, which does not diminish the introductive powers of labour, is an improvement of the neat revenue of the society ; so every saving in the expense of collecting and supporting that part of the circulating capital which consists in money is an improvement of exactly the same kind


    47. It is sufficiently obvious, and it has partly, too, been explained already, in what manner every saving in the expense of supporting the fixed capital is an improvement of the neat revenue of the society


    48. But in what manner this operation is performed, and in what manner it tends to increase either the gross or the neat revenue of the society, is not altogether so obvious, and may therefore require some further explication


    49. The gross revenue of the society, the annual produce of their land and labour, is increased by the whole value which the labour of those workmen adds to the materials upon which they are employed, and their neat revenue by what remains of this value, after deducting what is necessary for supporting the tools and instruments of their trade


    50. any situation! I shifted the weigh on my left foot and did a neat













































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    Synonyms for "neat"

    clean neat full-strength straight bang-up bully corking cracking dandy great groovy keen nifty not bad old peachy slap-up smashing swell facile slick orderly methodical deft systematic apt skilful clever expert groomed nice taut ordered natty plain clear unadulterated undiluted unmixed

    "neat" definitions

    clean or organized


    showing care in execution


    free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed


    superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject


    very good


    (of an alcoholic drink) without water