past experience
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpastandexperience
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past
adjective
uk/pɑːst/us/pæst/
used to refer to a period of time before and until ...
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experience
noun
uk/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofpastandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpast experience
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This included herpastexperiencethat might be preparation for this role.
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Pastexperiencesuggests that separate administrative structures in government may be reflected in separate silos of health care delivery.
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Perhaps more importantly, for an image to take on the sanctity of tradition, people must believe that it embodies an efficacy born ofpastexperience.
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This short-term role for local authorities was also based onpastexperience.
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The hierarchy of goals underpinning policy remain the same, but dissatisfaction withpastexperienceleads to policy instruments being altered.
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There was a common perception, based either onpastexperienceor on the experiences of acquaintances, that statutory help was heavily restricted and inflexible.
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By definition, expressing something about apastexperiencecalls on representational abilities that are independent of present motor and perceptual experiences.
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Thus, in iterated games, each player may be acting rationally with respect to his/herpastexperience.
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For the constructivists, memory, stored schemata, andpastexperienceplay an important role in perception.
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Many selected a place that reflectedpastexperiencewith other physical environments.
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We find that three significant variables to explain behaviours in lottery purchase: income, age andpastexperiencein other lotteries.
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Such a method would go a long way towards allowing us to recover the ' particularity ofpastexperience'.
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Ifpastexperiencewith government failure is a guide, promises of vigorous enforcement of these limited rights are not credible.
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Sometimes the promptings of the experiential mind, based on generalizations frompastexperience, are more adaptive than the logical reasoning of the rational mind.
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These relationships are therefore signalled as emotionally alive and form a continuity betweenpastexperienceand current behaviour.
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Apastexperienceis not "copied" into the present, but rather, it is interpreted according to the current situation.
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Pastexperienceeffects can also be explained by the same principles as familiarity/similarity.
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However,pastexperienceand the wider fatigue literature suggests that the odds do not favour such a specific association being sustained.
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