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CUI BONO?

Specialty Definition: CUI BONO?

Domain	Definition
Literature	Cui bono? Who is benefited thereby? To whom is it a gain? The more usual meaning attached to the words is, What good will it do? For what good purpose? It was the question of Judge Cassius. (See Cicero: Pro Milone, 12, sec. 32.) "Cato, that great and grave philosopher, did commonly demand, when any new project was propounded unto him, cui bono, what good will ensue in case the same is effected?" - Fuller: Worthies (The Design, i.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms within Context: CUI BONO?

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inutility	Interjection: cui bono?; what's the good!
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: CUI BONO?

Domain	Title
Books	Informatik cui bono? : GI-FB 8 Fachtagung Freiburg, 23.-26. September 1992 (reference) (more book examples)
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Modern Translation: CUI BONO?

Language		Translations for "CUI BONO?"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		kinek jó?, kinek használ?. (various references)

Pig Latin		uicay ono?bay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: CUI BONO?

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-i-n-o-o-u"
	-2 letters: bunco.
	-3 letters: boon, cion, coin, coni, coon, icon, unci, unco.
	-4 letters: bin, bio, boo, bun, cob, con, coo, cub, ion, nib, nob, noo, nub, obi.
	-5 letters: bi, bo, in, no, nu, on, un.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-i-n-o-o-u"
	+3 letters: combustion, subcooling.
	+4 letters: combustions, contributor, conurbation, doxorubicin, obfuscation, obscuration, obstruction, subcolonies.
	+5 letters: bloodsucking, contribution, contributors, contributory, conurbations, doxorubicins, obfuscations, obscurations, obstructions, subconscious, subeconomies.
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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography

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