fruitless search

collocation in English

meaningsoffruitlessandsearch

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fruitless
adjective
uk
/ˈfruːt.ləs/us
/ˈfruːt.ləs/
If an action or attempt to do something is fruitless, it is unsuccessful or produces nothing ...
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search
noun
uk
/sɜːtʃ/us
/sɝːtʃ/
an attempt to find someone ...
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(Definition offruitlessandsearchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffruitless search

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At the moment it is engaged in afruitlesssearchfor some form of public ownership and it cannot even decide on the candidate industries.
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It involves a long and almost alwaysfruitlesssearchof employment exchanges and elsewhere, trying to find somebody who can look after his business in his absence.
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I have been trying for some time to obtain a little clerical assistance in performing my very modest duties, but it has been a vain andfruitlesssearch.
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Meanwhile, the admiral is ordered to give up hisfruitlesssearch.
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Teatralna station was reopened late afternoon after police completed afruitlesssearchfor possible explosives.
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But tragically, her ultimatelyfruitlesssearchled her to many dead-ends.
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The moths inadvertently pollinate them by transferring pollen from flower to flower in theirfruitlesssearchfor nectar.
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In several cases these reports led to fruitless searches.
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After almost 20 years of fruitless searching for a way out, it is now entirely appropriate to debate the next steps, including possible changes to the negotiating mechanism.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
After eight more years of fruitless searches, most astronomers assumed that there were no more and abandoned any further searches.
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