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no

determiner
 
 
/nəʊ/ US  /noʊ/

Definition

A1 not any; not one; not a: There's no butter left. There are no pockets in these trousers. That's my kind of holiday - no email, no phone, and no worries. There's no chance (= no possibility) of us getting there by eight.Something, anything, nothing, and everything A2 used in signs and on notices to show that something is not allowed: No smoking/fishing.Forbidding and banning things
(Definition of no determiner from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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