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hotbed

DEFINITIONS OF: hotbed

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n a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad)

“it was a hotbed of vice”
Type of:
situation, state of affairs
the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time

n a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants

Type of:
bed
a plot of ground in which plants are growing
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