1. Russian politician and former intelligence officer (born 1952), President of Russia since 2012 and from 2000-2008
   - Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

1. Place, set, or put something inside or within something else
   "She put in a bookmark";
   - insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, introduce
    
2. Set up for use
   "We put in a new sink";
   - install, instal [Brit], set up
    
3. To insert between other elements
   "She put in clever remarks";
   - interject, come in, interpose, throw in, inject
    
4. Keep or lay aside for future use
   "She put in some money each month for retirement";
   - store, hive away, lay in, salt away, stack away, stash away
    
5. Break into a conversation
   "He kept putting in with irrelevant comments";
   - chime in [informal], cut in, butt in [informal], barge in [informal], break in, chip in [informal]
    
6. Make an application as for a job or funding
   "We put in a grant to the NSF";
   - submit
    
7. Spend or invest (time/effort)
   "She put in long hours at work"
    
8. Dock or make harbour
   "The ship put in at Southampton"

Derived forms: putting in, put in, puts in

Type of: apply, cut off, disrupt, hold on, interrupt, keep, lay, national leader, place, pose, position, put, set, statesperson

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