dozen

noun [C], determiner

/ˈdʌz.ən/

Definition

B1 twelve: a dozen eggs This recipe makes three dozen cookies. Could you get me half a dozen (= six) eggs when you go to the shop?informal I've spoken to him dozens of (= many) times, but I still don't know his name! The refugees arrived by the dozen/in their dozens (= in large numbers).Groups of things according to number

(Definition of dozen noundeterminer from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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