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cope (KOHP) (verb), copes; coped; coping
1. To contend or to strive; especially, to deal with or to struggle with difficulties and to overcome them: An administrator must cope with or manage many business problems every day.
2. Etymology: "come to blows with", from Old French couper, earlier colper, "to hit, to punch", from colp, "a blow".
To deal with problems, troubles, etc.
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