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palanca

/paˈlanka/ · pa‧lan‧ca

noun feminine: la palanca

  1. lever

    • Tira de la palanca.
      Pull the lever.

  2. connections, pull

    • Consiguió el trabajo por palanca.
      He got the job through connections.

Pull, connections: informal, Latin America.

Plural palancas

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