dozen

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doz·en /ˈdʌzən/ S2 W3 number (plural dozen or dozens) (written abbreviation doz.)

1 TMtwelve 一打〔12个〕

a dozen eggs

一打鸡蛋

two/three/four etc dozen (=24,36,48 etc) 两打/三打/四打等

The number of deaths has risen to more than two dozen.

死亡人数已增至24人以上。

dozens of people/companies/cars etc (=but not hundreds or thousands) 好几十人/家公司/辆汽车等

Dozens of people were killed.

数十人被杀。

Chris, Helen, and half a dozen others went on holiday together.

克里斯、海伦和其他六个人一起去度假了。

A dozen or so (=about 12) cars were parked near the entrance.

入口附近停了大约十二辆汽车。

2 informalLOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNT a lot of 许多

a dozen

I’ve heard this story a dozen times before.

这故事我以前听过很多次了。

dozens of something

She’s had dozens of boyfriends.

她交过许多男朋友。

We collected dozens and dozens of shells on the beach.

我们在海滩上捡了很多很多贝壳。

→ baker's dozen, → a dime a dozen at dime(2), → nineteen to the dozen at nineteen(2), → six of one and half a dozen of another at six(4)

Examples from the Corpus

dozen• I had some memorable test drives after buying a dozen 6R4s when they were up for grabs at the factory.• We take two dozen blues and a dozen of their predators, the small green crabs that are never far away.• Prescott, the administration building, looked the same, except that there were a dozen cars parked outside.• There were a dozen feature films made, with filming lasting from one week to four months.• They live, like their ancestors, in packs of a dozen or so.• The mood is relaxed-very advisable if you have a dozen sheep to get through in a day.• Having only one hand, and having that in a dozen things, he has no other to hold out.

half a dozen• Sunday night he was wild on at least a half dozen.• Customer-driven systems also allow individuals to meet their needs in a holistic way, without applying to half a dozen different programs.• half a dozen eggs• He found half a dozen fishermen seated under the palm trees at the foot of the Co-operative quay.• I still do half a dozen or so of these scarlet cross-overs a year, to this day.• Inside the cafe there were half a dozen other people.• He had rewritten the story half a dozen times.• Perhaps half a dozen were Hispanic, and the rest, black.• About half a dozen women and children had appeared and were standing, holding hands, watching me.

dozens and dozens• They collected dozens and dozens of shells on the beach.

From Longman Business Dictionary

dozendoz·en /ˈdʌzən/ written abbreviation doz. noun (plural dozens or dozen) [countableC]

a group of twelve things

More than a dozen managers have come and gone.

The extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen (=six) valuable new clients.

Origin dozen

(1200-1300) Old French dozeine, from doze “twelve”

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