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pencil

2 verb
     
pencil2 past tense and past participle pencilled, present participle pencilling British English, past tense and past participle penciled, present participle penciling American English [transitive]
to write something or make a mark with a pencil:
a name pencilled on the envelope

pencil somebody/something ↔ in

phrasal verb
to make an arrangement for a meeting or other event, knowing that it might have to be changed later:
Pickford has been pencilled in as Robson's replacement.
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