Definition of "mal" []

• Illness, affliction. (noun)
• A longboard (type of surfboard). (noun)

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• "Mexicans call it mal de ojo, and in Brazil it's olho gordo."
• "The second issue we face is what I call a mal-investment or a mis-investment in parts of economies that cannot sustain themselves."
• "When we add in mal-employed college graduates working in jobs that do not require a college degree, there were 17 million unemployed or mal-employed college graduates for these 1 million job vacancies."