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in circulation

in circulation prepositional phrase: percolating between people or places.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Percolating between people or places.
    • The story has been in circulation for a while now.
  2. Freely available; not restricted in access; in general use.
    • Because of the Internet, there is a vast library of free video material in circulation.
  3. Seen in public. (of a person)

Questions about in circulation

What does in circulation mean?
In circulation means percolating between people or places.
What part of speech is in circulation?
In circulation is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in circulation in the dictionary

  1. in check
  2. in chief
  3. in chorus
  4. in church every time the doors are open
  5. in circles
  6. in circulation
  7. in close neighborhood
  8. in close neighbourhood
  9. in clover
  10. in cohorts
  11. in cold blood

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