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kosher

adjective
 
 
/ˈkəʊ.ʃər/ US  /ˈkoʊ.ʃɚ/

Definition

(of food or places where food is sold, etc.) prepared or kept in conditions that follow the rules of Jewish law: kosher food/meat a kosher restaurant/butcher/shopJudaismVarious qualities of food informal humorous legal, able to be trusted and therefore good: Their business activities aren't quite kosher.Suitable and acceptableQuite good, or not very good
(Definition of kosher adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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