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ten-

combining form

(Medicine) a variant of teno-

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ten

(ten) noun

1. the number or figure 10.

2. the age of 10.

adjective

1. 10 in number.

2. aged 10.

ten-

having ten (of something). a ten-pound fine.

tenth noun

1. one of ten equal parts.

2. (also adjective) the last of ten (people, things etc); the next after the ninth.

ten-pin bowling noun

a game in which a ball is rolled at ten skittles in order to knock down as many as possible.

ˈten-year-old noun

a person or animal that is ten years old.

adjective

(of a person, animal or thing) that is ten years old.

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* A section of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the law regulating child labor, allows agricultural industries to obtain waivers that will allow them to use ten- and eleven-year-olds for hand-harvested products if the companies can show that not using the ten- and eleven-year-olds "would cause severe economic disruption to the industry."

Yet according to a lawsuit filed in 1979 by Public Citizen, a Ralph Nader group, the Department of Labor published regulations that permitted ten- and eleven-year-olds in potato and strawberry fields to be exposed to the residues of some twenty-five pesticides, including many that produce birth defects, impair growth, and damage the reproductive system.