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What does hanker mean?

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Verb
  1. To crave, want or desire.
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Neither in Sweden nor in other EU countries do people hanker after another level of taxation.
During twenty-two years, you forgot the Iranians, they are close to 70 millions today who hanker for liberty.
We would hanker after a glass of beer and imagine propping up the bar at the Pen-y-Gwryd.
I still hanker to return home with my family one day but my view of NZ when I was growing up in the 1970's is dead and buried.
Like General Counsel, citizens who hanker after greater access to justice want more for less.
Domesticity is chic and desirable, and domestic bliss is what millions of women hanker for.

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