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| готовность совершить действие; близко; около; иметь намерение; почти; вот-вот (A.Rezvov) | |||
| случится вскоре (Interex); произойдёт вскоре (Interex) | |||
| иметь намерение; собираться (You know, the boss was not about to give any of his staff. – Знаешь, босс даже и не собирался выделять мне своих людей.) | |||
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| вот-вот (used with the future tense of verbs) | |||
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| American usage, not spelling | 8 | Foreign policy | 1 | Military lingo | 2 |
| Astronautics | 1 | General | 551 | Nautical | 7 |
| Automobiles | 1 | Hotel industry | 1 | Operation systems | 1 |
| Aviation | 2 | Human resources | 1 | Politics | 5 |
| Bible | 2 | Humorous / Jocular | 2 | Production | 1 |
| Business | 14 | Idiomatic | 20 | Programming | 11 |
| Chemistry | 1 | Informal | 92 | Proverb | 6 |
| Cinematography | 1 | Information technology | 3 | Psychology | 3 |
| Cliche / convention | 5 | Internet | 1 | Public relations | 1 |
| Databases | 2 | Jargon | 1 | Quotes and aphorisms | 9 |
| Dialectal | 2 | Law | 12 | Rhetoric | 2 |
| Diplomacy | 5 | Librarianship | 1 | Sailing | 2 |
| Ecology | 1 | Literature | 10 | Sakhalin | 1 |
| Economics | 1 | Logic | 1 | Scientific | 7 |
| Emphatic | 6 | Makarov | 317 | Slang | 5 |
| Figurative | 7 | Mathematics | 11 | Technology | 3 |
| Finances | 2 | Mechanics | 1 | Telecommunications | 1 |
| Fishery fishing industry | 1 | Medical | 1 | Vulgar | 1 |
| Foreign exchange market | 1 | Military | 5 |