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What (who) is dozen - definition

SET OF TWELVE PIECES
Baker's dozen; Dozens; Bakers dozen; Long dozen; Baker Dozen; Baker dozen; Baker’s Dozen; Devil's Dozen; Devil's dozen; Decimal Dozen; Decimal dozen; Doz; Group of twelve; Duodĕcim; Duodecim; Dutzend; Dozijn; Docena; Bakers' dozen; Texas dozen
  • A box of a dozen doughnuts
  • Half dozen chargrilled oysters

dozen         
(dozens)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
Note: The plural form is 'dozen' after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as 'several' or 'a few'.
1.
If you have a dozen things, you have twelve of them.
You will be able to take ten dozen bottles free of duty through customs...
His chicken eggs sell for $22 a dozen.
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2.
You can refer to a group of approximately twelve things or people as a dozen. You can refer to a group of approximately six things or people as half a dozen.
In half a dozen words, he had explained the bond that linked them...
The riot left four people dead and several dozen injured.
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3.
If you refer to dozens of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them.
...a storm which destroyed dozens of homes and buildings.
QUANT: QUANT of pl-n [emphasis]
You can also use dozens as a pronoun.
Just as revealing are Mr Johnson's portraits, of which there are dozens.
PRON
dozen         
a.
Twelve.
dozen         
n. a baker's; round dozen

Wikipedia

Dozen

A dozen (commonly abbreviated doz or dz) is a grouping of twelve.

The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive integer groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the Moon, or months, in a cycle of the Sun, or year. Twelve is convenient because it has a maximal number of divisors among the numbers up to its double, a property only true of 1, 2, 6, 12, 60, 360, and 2520.

The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal). Counting in base-12 can easily be accomplished on one's hands by counting each finger bone with one's thumb. Using this method, one hand can count to twelve, and two hands (with the second hand as a placeholder for representing units of twelve) can count to 144. Twelve dozen (122 = 144) are known as a gross; and twelve gross (123 = 1,728, the duodecimal 1,000) are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred, also known as a small gross, is 120 or ten dozen.

Dozen may also be used to express a moderately large quantity as in "several dozen" (e.g., dozens of people came to the party).

Varying by country, some products are packaged or sold by the dozen, often foodstuff (a dozen eggs).

Examples of use of dozen
1. Permission to reprint/republish "How about six dozen?" "Six dozen!
2. They have the potential, they have the fissile material for another dozen or two–dozen weapons.
3. Over a dozen students were injured in the police action and two dozen were detained.
4. The menu is succinct, offering half a dozen to a dozen different options in each section.
5. Reuters typically reports between a dozen and several dozen killings a day in Iraq, most of them of civilians.