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Exact means correct in every detail. For example, an exact copy is the same in every detail as the thing it is copied from. I don't remember the exact words The exact number of protest calls has not been revealed It's an exact copy of the one which was found in Ann Alice's room. = precise approximate + exactly ex·act·ly Try to locate exactly where the smells are entering the room Both drugs will be exactly the same Barton couldn't remember exactly. = precisely approximately

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{f} demand, require, insist upon; force

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If something exacts a high price, it has a bad effect on a person or situation. The sheer physical effort had exacted a heavy price The strain of a violent ground campaign will exact a toll on troops. see also exactly

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{s} precise; meticulous, extremely accurate

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When someone exacts something, they demand and obtain it from another person, especially because they are in a superior or more powerful position. Already he has exacted a written apology from the chairman of the commission

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Demand and enforce the payment or performance of

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To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc

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Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict

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Extract forcibly

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marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact; "an exact mind"; "an exact copy"; "hit the exact center of the target

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You say to be exact to indicate that you are slightly correcting or giving more detailed information about what you have been saying. A small number -- five, to be exact -- have been bad

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If someone exacts revenge on a person, they have their revenge on them. She uses the media to help her exact a terrible revenge

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Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts

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Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact

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emphasis You use exact before a noun to emphasize that you are referring to that particular thing and no other, especially something that has a particular significance. I hadn't really thought about it until this exact moment It may be that you will feel the exact opposite of what you expected. + exactly ex·act·ly These are exactly the people who do not vote He knew exactly what he was doing. = precisely, just

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To practice exaction

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marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact; "an exact mind"; "an exact copy"; "hit the exact center of the target"

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If you describe someone as exact, you mean that they are very careful and detailed in their work, thinking, or methods. Formal, exact and obstinate, he was also cold, suspicious, touchy and tactless. = meticulous

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from or of some one

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take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her"

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claim as due or just; "The bank demanded payment of the loan"

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(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"

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