Usually means: Including but not limited to.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. comprising: Merriam-Webster
  2. comprising: Collins English Dictionary
  3. comprising: Vocabulary.com
  4. Comprising, comprising: Wordnik
  5. comprising: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. comprising: Wiktionary
  7. Comprising, comprising: Dictionary.com
  8. comprising: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Comprising: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Comprising: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. comprising: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. comprising: FreeDictionary.org
  13. comprising: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comprising: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (comprise)

verb:  (transitive) To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).
verb:  (sometimes proscribed, usually in the passive) To compose; to constitute.
verb:  (patent law) To include, contain, or be made up of, defining the minimum elements, whether essential or inessential to define an invention.
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