[ˈrathəʊl], (Noun)

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- a cramped or squalid room or building
(e.g: a rathole where a friend lived until her place was broken into for the seventeenth time)

- used to refer to the waste of money or resources
(e.g: pouring our assets down the rathole of military expenditure)

- (in the oil industry) a shallow hole drilled near a well to accommodate the drill string joint when not in use


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[ˈrathəʊl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- hide (money or goods), typically as part of a deception
(e.g: he had ratholed the nine thousand that nobody could find)


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