fundamental significance

collocation in English

meaningsoffundamentalandsignificance

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fundamental
adjective
uk
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/us
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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(Definition offundamentalandsignificancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The relationship of drapery to the underlying structure is clearly offundamentalsignificanceand leads to a clearer distinction between tailored and draped architecture.
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This withholding of a name, or giving of the name by the homestead head alone, was a difference offundamentalsignificance.
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Investigating the fate of the image of medicine as the healer of society during the twentieth century is thus offundamentalsignificancein understanding the cultural role of contemporary medicine.
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Yet this is offundamentalsignificancefor the future.
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It is clear, as other speakers have already said, that prevention is of absolutelyfundamentalsignificancehere.
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It is an issue offundamentalsignificancethat excessive fees have been charged by a port which, it has been alleged, has a dominant position.
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All that is of cardinal importance, and therein lies thefundamentalsignificanceof the service.
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These matters are offundamentalsignificancefor industry and the economy, and they must be rightly understood.
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I mean that religion and freedom of religion are offundamentalsignificancefor the development of human rights and, ultimately, of democracy.
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That way, along with our union reforms, has proved offundamentalsignificanceto our long-term economic strength.
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Why have they broken with all precedent in privatisation legislation and refused to name a successor organisation of suchfundamentalsignificance?
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Thefundamentalsignificanceof the citizens charter is that it is a serious and sustained effort to tackle that critical problem.
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I agree that the matter is offundamentalsignificance.
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Another economically important resource are fish, which are offundamentalsignificancein the context of food security.
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The quality of food products has afundamentalsignificanceto the safety of food for our citizens.
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It may not strike him as offundamentalsignificancebut it is fundamental to ten million workers in industry.
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Problems with air transport, for example, are now proverbial, and this is offundamentalsignificancefor a rapid reaction in crisis situations.
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I will go even further and say that the social costs of the loss of strength in this sector are of absolutelyfundamentalsignificance.
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Partnership for peace and the combined joint task forces are changes offundamentalsignificance.
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That is offundamentalsignificance.
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