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[the same pronunciation]
“Mole” (noun) is ‘a small, black or dark brown mark on a person’s skin (some usually from the time of birth) used as a person’s identification mark; and a small furry animal which is completely blind’,
e.g.
The identification marks on his passport are a mole on his upper lip and another one on his back.
Moles live their entire lives under the ground.
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“Mole” (noun) is ‘an employee of an office or a member of an organisation who sells or leaks the secrets of his office or organisation to its enemies or competitors’; (in science) ‘a unit for measuring the amount of a substance’,
e.g.
The minister suspects that there is a mole in his office who is leaking his office secrets to the media.
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