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Photography and photographers

paparazzi

noun

photographers who follow famous people in order to take photographs of them that newspapers and magazines will buy

photo

noun

a photograph

photograph

noun

a picture of something that you make with a camera. In spoken language people usually say photo

photographer

noun

someone who takes photographs, especially as their job

photography

noun

the photographic images in books, magazines, films, and television programmes

photomontage

noun

the method of combining parts of photographs to produce photomontages

pic

noun

a photograph

shot

noun

a photograph

caxirola

a percussion instrument used by football fans which makes a rattling sound when shaken

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to learn small pieces of information by asking questions or watching or listening carefully

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pierce the corporate veil

… the decision to treat the rights and duties of a company as being the same as the rights and duties of its shareholders

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