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conflict management
Subject:
Business Studies

strategies to resolve disagreements and aggression.

congenital
Subject:
Life Sciences

describes a condition that is present at birth.

conglomerate diversification
Subject:
Business Studies

adding new, unrelated goods and services to the product base of a business.

congruence
Subject:
Mathematics

two or more shapes being absolutely identical in shape and size.

conical hill
Subject:
Geography

small hill that remains after the resistant layer of rock at the top of a pointed butte has been...

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