particular constituency

collocation in English

meaningsofparticularandconstituency

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particular
adjective
uk
/pəˈtɪk.jə.lər/us
/pɚˈtɪk.jə.lɚ/
special, or this and not ...
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constituency
noun[C]
uk
/kənˈstɪtʃ.u.ən.si/us
/kənˈstɪtʃ.u.ən.si/
one of the official areas of a country that elects someone to represent it in a parliament ...
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(Definition ofparticularandconstituencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofparticular constituency

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In plurality systems, the local party leaders generally have neither the means nor the incentive to balance their tickets to represent different groups within aparticularconstituency.
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Furthermore, telephone campaigning allows parties to side-step tight controls on spending in constituency campaigns, since calls can be hard to trace or to attribute to aparticularconstituency.
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I wish to touch on three other matters ofparticularconstituencyinterest.
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I know aparticularconstituency, indeed, in which there is no single resident magistrate of this particular class.
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From the date of the publication of the part of the report referring to theparticularconstituency.
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I was dealing with my ownparticularconstituency.
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It is quite absurd to say that any citizen is to have a vote in aparticularconstituencybecause that citizen is married to somebody.
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Clearly, someone living in aparticularconstituencywants to be able to vote there.
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Added to that, we now have the massive increase in telephone canvassing, which is very hard to link to anyparticularconstituency.
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I can only trust that my ownparticularconstituencymatter will not be too far down the queue when the time comes.
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The tables include lottery awards not attributed to the distributing bodies to aparticularconstituency.
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It is therefore not possible to say what their specific impact is on aparticularconstituency.
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I did not make that remark in connection with the steel industry, but in connection with the export trades of my ownparticularconstituency.
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I guess that only a minority of those who stay abroad for so long would retain links with aparticularconstituency.
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That has always concerned me, because, if they do not do that, they lose their connection with aparticularconstituency.
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He sees well the great power which will be exercised over the electors in the city to vote in aparticularconstituency!
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I am not making aparticularconstituencyspeech.
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I feel as strongly as anyone the ties which bind one to aparticularconstituency.
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I think that there is probably something in this point where aparticularconstituencyis mentioned.
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It all depends on how well the canvassers and the collecting touts of some of the big pools in theparticularconstituencyare organised.
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