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▸ noun: A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
▸ noun: A ratchet wrench.
▸ noun: (by extension) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
▸ noun: A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to become incremented or decremented.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To increment or decrement.
▸ adjective: (US, slang) Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.
▸ noun: (finance) Ellipsis of full ratchet. [(finance) An antidilution approach by which, if a subsequent round of funding would decrease an investor's equity ownership percentage, the investor is given additional shares to maintain the former percentage.]
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ratch,
rachet,
rachet up,
ratchet down,
ratchet wheel,
click,
pallet,
ratchet lever,
rack,
pawl,
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