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Definition of Hoover

a kind of vacuum cleaner
31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)
United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)
United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets"

Derivational Morphology: vacuum, vacuum-clean, hoover, William Hoover, William Henry Hoover, vacuum cleaner

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