peculiar character
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpeculiarandcharacter
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peculiar
adjective
uk/pɪˈkjuː.li.ər/us/pɪˈkjuːl.jɚ/
unusual and strange, sometimes in an ...
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character
noun
uk/ˈkær.ək.tər/us/ˈker.ək.tɚ/
the particular combination of qualities in a person or place that makes them different ...
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For it does not take into account thepeculiarcharacterof the first instant of the world, that is of creation properly understood.
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However, thepeculiarcharacterof labor-power is such that its consumption - the putting to work of the laborer - is the very process of producing value!
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A great many committees and a good many enterprises, some of them of apeculiarcharacter, are set up without any public announcement.
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There was a special body of immigrants of a quitepeculiarcharacterengaged in two special areas of vital importance to munition production.
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This tax has been condemned, and rightly condemned, because it is a tax of a verypeculiarcharacter.
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It has been said that thispeculiarcharacterbroadens the market, so making it more active and more ebullient.
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Of all honourable departments in this country it possesses apeculiarcharacterof its own which ought to be most jealously safeguarded.
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His good intentions are of a ratherpeculiarcharacter.
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I want to mention apeculiarcharacterof transport legislation.
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We have here an industry of apeculiarcharacter, which is enabled to inflict great hardship on the community.
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The two particular proposals which we are discussing now are of a verypeculiarcharacterwhen we have that general purpose in view.
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That is the case of excepted employment of a ratherpeculiarcharacter.
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In addition, it is extraordinarily difficult to show the necessary variations that hospitals must have, because of theirpeculiarcharacter.
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And there would remain some cities which have apeculiarcharacter, history, and individuality of their own.
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Its tardiness in recognising thepeculiarcharacterof this war and in realising the public will in these man-power matters has appeared to many of us, almost incredible.
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In a branch of supply of thepeculiarcharacterwith which we have to deal, that is something which has got to be striven after energetically all the time.
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It was valuable to the farmers of this country for this reason: it was apeculiarcharacterof labour unknown to, and impossible in, this island.
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The existing building is now the result of several interventions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries that give it a verypeculiarcharacter.
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Pastoral habits must have greatly contributed to give the system of landholding itspeculiarcharacter.
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In the last years of operation, they also stocked mainstream brands, which made the stores lose a lot of theirpeculiarcharacter.
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