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juggling

 noun
     
jug‧gling [uncountable]
1 the skill of keeping three or more objects moving through the air by throwing and catching them :
a display of juggling
2 the practice of changing things or arranging them in a way that makes it possible for you to do something:
It took a lot of juggling and rearrangement of figures before the loan was approved.
3 when someone who has a good job in a profession they have trained for is also secretly involved in an illegal activity
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