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Amsterdam
[ am-ster-dam; Dutch ahm-stuhr-dahm ]
noun
- a city in and the official capital of the Netherlands. Compare The Hague.
- a city in E New York.
Amsterdam
/ ɑmstərˈdɑm; ˌæmstəˈdæm /
noun
- the commercial capital of the Netherlands, a major industrial centre and port on the IJsselmeer, connected with the North Sea by canal: built on about 100 islands within a network of canals. Pop: 737 000 (2003 est)
Amsterdam
- Capital of The Netherlands , located in the west-central region of the country.
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Notes
Seat of one of the world's chief stock exchanges and a center of the diamond-cutting industry, the city is also known for its canals and for a great art museum, the Rijksmuseum.
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A flight to Amsterdam was cancelled and a TUI flight from Tenerife was diverted to Stansted while the runway was closed.
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Nichols' has even enlisted a team of graduate student researchers in Amsterdam and postdocs to assist in reviewing the estimates.
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Yungblud is leaving his hotel in Amsterdam when he's approached by a fan in floods of tears.
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His international lawyer, Robert Amsterdam, told the BBC that it was their "mission to defend democracy".
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"Two months later, I saw on the news that the containers had been seized in Amsterdam, full of drugs. We never knew."
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