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- To tighten something that is slack so that it is taut.
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- To tighten something that is slack so that it is taut.
- To do work that would otherwise be left undone.
- To provide extra resources that are not met by normal sources.
- (mathematics) To act as a slack variable, converting an inequality into an equality.
- To consume something that would otherwise go to waste.
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