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software

 noun
     
Related topics: Computers
soft‧ware W2 [uncountable]
TDTD the sets of programs that tell a computer how to do a particular job [↪ hardware]:
She loaded the new software.
design/anti-virus/database etc software
word-processing software
a software company
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