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bring off

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bring off something
to succeed in doing something. Only a megacorporation has the resources to bring off this kind of deal.
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Hunt then urged the commodore to fit out one of his prizes, and send her to Astoria, to bring off the property and part of the people, but he declined, "from want of authority.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
For after the sailors could no longer come up the Thames, they came on to the Essex coast, to Harwich and Walton and Clacton, and afterwards to Foulness and Shoebury, to bring off the people.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
I can bring off two canoe loads of food in the morning.
South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context
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