fringe element

collocation in English

meaningsoffringeandelement

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fringe
noun[C]
uk
/frɪndʒ/us
/frɪndʒ/
the outer or less important part of an area, group, ...
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element
noun
uk
/ˈel.ɪ.mənt/us
/ˈel.ə.mənt/
a part ...
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(Definition offringeandelementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffringe element

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There may be afringeelementof management concerned with tax evasion.
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Football has acquired a bad name because of thatfringeelement.
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I do not think it unfair to say that, 15 years ago, chiropractic would have been considered afringeelementof medicine.
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We are talking about a disreputablefringeelement.
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This is not just a matter of benefits for afringeelementin the population—it affects many millions of people.
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Really, that is no more than afringeelementof the housing problem.
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Our system—which is basically public with afringeelementof private provision—is the most cost-effective health service in the world.
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I think they're quite clearly afringeelement.
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I can't believe you're bothering with such a minuscule,fringeelementthat has no resonance with this populace.
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The party fought in the 1988 federal election, but was never considered more than afringeelement, and none of its 72 candidates won election.
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It was widely accepted up until the 1990s, when behavioral finance economists, who had been afringeelement, became mainstream.
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Recent scholarship has identified afringeelementdistinct from all the major aspects of the religion, its community and leadership at the time.
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If some fringe elements are giving foolish advice, most members of the organisation would not go along with it.
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The actions of these fringe elements are unnecessary and are having an inflammatory effect in an already serious situation.
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These people are fringe elements.
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Craft workshops, tourism and forestry are welcome but represent only fringe elements to the farmers' income, not the part of his farm work which has always provided the main production.
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These wings bear filiform fringe elements up to 10 mm long.
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They may or may not have fringe elements.
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They have a pair of prominent ribs in place of wings, sometimes bearing fringe elements near the peristome.
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A pair of wings (8 mm wide) runs down the ventral surface of the pitcher cup, bearing narrow fringe elements.
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