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on sufferance if you do sth on sufferance, sb allows you to do it although they do not really want you to:
He's only staying here on sufferance.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is sufferance a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sufferance is tagged as noun.
Does sufferance appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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