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a situation or activity for which a person or thing is best suited
  • called an old friend to see if he could find a slot for his college-age son in the construction business that summer

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“Slot.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slot. Accessed 6 December 2019.

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