pronoun
(informal) = THEM:
Don’t let ’em get away.

short form
(old use) it is

pronoun
(BrE, informal) a way of saying or writing ’one’:
That was a good ’un. * The little ’uns (= the small children) couldn’t keep up.

suffix, short form
    suffix (added to nouns)
  1  belonging to:
the woman’s hat * Peter’s desk * children’s clothes
  2  used to refer to sb’s home or, in British English, a particular shop:
Shall we go to David’s (= David’s house) tonight? * (BrE) I’ll call in at the chemist’s on my way home
    short form (informal)
  1  used after he, she or it and where, what, who or how to mean ’is’ or ’has’:
She’s still in the bath. * What’s he doing now? * It’s time to go now. * Who’s taken my pen? * Where’s he gone? * It’s gone wrong again.
  2  (used after let when making a suggestion that includes yourself and others) us:
Let’s go out for lunch.

-> -CY

suffix (in nouns)
  1  the action or result of:
breakage
  2  a state or condition of:
bondage
  3  a set or group of:
baggage
  4  an amount of:
mileage
  5  the cost of:
postage
  6  a place where:
anchorage

suffix
  1  (in adjectives) connected with:
magical * verbal
see also -ALLY
  2  (in nouns) a process or state of:
survival

suffix
(makes adverbs from adjectives that end in -al):
magically * sensationally

, -ana
-> -IAN, -IANA

, -ence suffix
(in nouns) the action or state of:
assistance * confidence

, -ency suffix
(in nouns) the state or quality of:
expectancy * complacency

, -ent suffix
  1  (in adjectives) that is or does sth:
different * significant
  2  (in nouns) a person or thing that:
inhabitant * deterrent

suffix
(in nouns and adjectives) believing in; practising:
humanitarian * disciplinarian

suffix
(in adjectives and nouns) connected with:
planetary * budgetary

suffix
  1  (in adjectives) full of or having the quality of:
passionate * Italianate
  2  (in verbs) to give the thing or quality mentioned to:
hyphenate * activate
  3  (in nouns) the status or function of:
a doctorate
  4  (in nouns) a group with the status or function of:
the electorate
  5  (in nouns) (chemistry) a SALT formed by the action of a particular acid:
sulphate

-> -ION

suffix
(in adjectives) doing or tending to do sth:
illustrative * talkative
    -atively suffix (in adverbs):
creatively

suffix
(in nouns) a person or thing that does sth:
creator * percolator

-> BELLY

combining form (in nouns)
  1  the act of killing:
suicide * genocide
  2  a person or thing that kills:
insecticide
    -cidal (in adjectives):
homicidal

combining form
(in nouns) the government or rule of:
democracy * bureaucracy

combining form
(in nouns) a member or supporter of a particular type of government or system:
democrat * bureaucrat
    -cratic (in adjectives):
aristocratic

(BrE also -acy) suffix (in nouns)
  1  the state or quality of:
infancy * accuracy
  2  the status or position of:
chaplaincy

suffix
-> -ED

suffix (in nouns)
  1  the condition or state of:
freedom * martyrdom
  2  the rank of; an area ruled by:
kingdom
  3  the group of:
officialdom