particular significance

collocation in English

meaningsofparticularandsignificance

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particular
adjective
uk
/pəˈtɪk.jə.lər/
us
/pɚˈtɪk.jə.lɚ/
special, or this and not ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/
us
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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(Definition ofparticularandsignificancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This analysis hasparticularsignificancebecause postmilking teat disinfection is a commonly used method.
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Three features of migration in the 20th century haveparticularsignificance: conflict, post-colonialism, and immigration controls.
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These are names, in other words, which have tended to be accordedparticularsignificancein many histories of economic thought.
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Structure and agency are not only at the heart of social science generally, they also haveparticularsignificancefor social policy.
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Ofparticularsignificanceis gaining the patient's confidence, which can facilitate detailed assessment of prior, current and future needs and nursing care.
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This gainsparticularsignificancewhen it comes to the novel's violence.
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Section 4 has five chapters that cover topics ofparticularsignificancefor social work with rural elders.
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Two contributions of this book are ofparticularsignificance.
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The way of working has noparticularsignificanceand there is no ambition to continue the farm.
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If value conflict generates ambivalence within partisan preferences, this hasparticularsignificance.
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Ofparticularsignificanceis the welfare of the representative agent, as the economy evolves along its stochastic equilibrium growth path.
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From our analysis, certain bases of value have emerged as being ofparticularsignificance, namely legitimacy, purpose, security, conduct, adaptability and productivity.
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Deterministic methods take on aparticularsignificancein our analytic strategy.
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At the same time, it is because of the presence of the borstal in the narrative background that the surroundings take on aparticularsignificance.
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Ofparticularsignificanceis the proposal that such memories are not simply stored like letters in a mailbox or images distributed throughout a hologram.
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What then is theparticularsignificanceof architecture seen as an exchange-value as opposed to anything else?
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The institution ofparticularsignificancehere is state sovereignty that changes and takes new forms.
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The analysis of integration and autonomy hasparticularsignificancefor the field of developmental psychopathology.
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Ofparticularsignificancein this example were the figures for employment-1,214 jobs under wildlife tourism compared to 80 for cattle ranching.
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