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Fargo

[ fahr-goh ]

noun

  1. William George, 1818–81, U.S. businessman: pioneered in express shipping and banking.
  2. a city in SE North Dakota.


Fargo

/ ˈfɑːɡəʊ /

noun

  1. FargoWilliam18181881MUSBUSINESS: businessman William. 1818–81, US businessman: founded (1852) with Henry Wells the express mail service Wells, Fargo and Company
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

“We like to say that Darwin, if he had a different travel agent, could have come to the same conclusions just from the desert,” says evolutionary biologist Craig Stockwell of North Dakota State University in Fargo.

The first jurisdiction to employ approval voting as its default voting method was Fargo, North Dakota, in its June 2020 municipal elections.

Even Fargo took an intriguing, if not entirely convincing, new direction in its fourth seasons.

From Time

Apple, PetSmart, Wells Fargo, Marriott, and Delta also spoke out.

That means visiting Fargo each week from the comforts of your bedroom without having to run any cables from the living room.

The bailout crybabies of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and all the rest are easy targets—and deserving ones, too.

Two menacing Fargo-esque figures show up to complicate things.

Critics compared it unfavorably with Fargo, for which the Coens had won an Oscar the year before.

Take it down to the Wells-Fargo office, where the man will be waiting to get it.

Mr. Fargo is practically a well man now and could return to his home next week if he wished.

It was with not a little surprise that he heard the shouts with which his words were approved by all save the Wells Fargo Agent.

The next instant the Wells Fargo Agent, a cool, triumphant look on his face, stood framed in the doorway.

Near Fargo we found some extra good specimens of Norway spruce, which I consider the best of all windbreak makers.

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