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less

A2Frequent NGSL-1
UK /les/US /les/
adverb

to a smaller degree; not so much

determiner

used with uncountable nouns to mean ‘a smaller amount of’

pronoun

used with uncountable nouns to mean ‘a smaller amount of’

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