remote place

collocation in English

meaningsofremoteandplace

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remote
adjective
uk
/rɪˈməʊt/us
/rɪˈmoʊt/
far away ...
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place
noun
uk
/pleɪs/us
/pleɪs/
an area, town, ...
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(Definition ofremoteandplacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofremote place

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Despite this, ageing bodies occupy aremoteplacein consumer culture.
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When women reach the age at which they start to wear hairpins, a bamboo lodge is built for them in aremoteplace.
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The mobility of the microrobots allows the change of tools at aremoteplaceand the transportation of material to be manipulated.
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Each worked alone in aremoteplace, cut off by many hours from their nearest confrere, without telephones or cars.
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Working in such aremoteplace, he was rarely subject to outside administrative pressure or surveillance.
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We are not just talking about a smallremoteplace; we simply must look at the wider picture rather than walking around with blinkers on.
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If digging is likely to occur, it will happen, as like as not, in aremoteplacewhere it would be hard to prove.
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After that it must be taken to aremoteplaceand destroyed, and replaced with new ammunition.
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The fact that to put up some edifice in someremoteplacewould require consent each time would make an absurdity of including all roads.
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In the ordinary course it will be in someremoteplacethat such a case will arise.
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The disaster may occur in someremoteplacewhere the physical difficulties are too great to be overcome.
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He is not a stranger in aremoteplace.
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Her boat was supposed to have been washed away and that came ashore six miles away also at a veryremoteplace.
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Could not some moreremoteplacebe found for tank ranges?
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The earthquake was in an extremelyremoteplace.
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The county town is sometimes a veryremoteplace.
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Why is a man who was acquitted of all charges kept in a veryremoteplace?
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It is not aremoteplacein the glens and mountains.
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Let us consider also the effect of people being induced to stay at home when they live in aremoteplace.
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This is not a particularlyremoteplace, but like our neighbour, we do most of our shopping from travelling vans.
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