Meaning & use
vice
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An immoral or bad habit or behavior, or a tool used to hold an object firmly while it is worked on.
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Gambling became a costly vice for him in his later years.
He clamped the wood into the vice before sawing it.
A note on using this word
As a prefix, 'vice-' also means deputy or second-in-command, as in 'vice president,' a completely different sense from the noun meaning a bad habit.
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