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Received Standard definition

Received Standard

the form of British English spoken by the upper socioeconomic classes, esp. by graduates of the public schools and of Oxford and Cambridge

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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