The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NAME
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More clues leading to the result NAME
- Celebrity giving eastern servant a rise
- Mention celebrities to impress? Pardon me — that’s out of order
- One trying to impress modern paper with editing
- Identify vocation, provoking verbal abuse
- Celebrity in demand brought back
- One sought by the cops about electronic tag
- Handle call
- Well-known North American author
- Article about Poins’s reputation
- 14 with capital English worker raised
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What does NAME mean?
NAME noun- Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- Reputation.
- An abusive or insulting epithet.
- A person (or legal person).
- Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
- A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
- An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
- Authority.
- (ditransitive) To give a name to.
- To mention, specify.
- To identify as relevant or important
- To publicly implicate.
- To designate for a role.
- (Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
- Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.