permanent fixture

collocation in English

meaningsofpermanentandfixture

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permanent
adjective
uk
/ˈpɜː.mə.nənt/us
/ˈpɝː.mə.nənt/
lasting for a long time or ...
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fixture
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɪks.tʃər/us
/ˈfɪks.tʃɚ/
a permanently fixed piece of furniture in a house, such as a bath, that would not be taken by someone when moving to a ...
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(Definition ofpermanentandfixturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Westerkamp directs a listener to see, to hear, this background authoritarian environment not as apermanentfixtureto life, but as an aspect ultimately alterable by human desire and intent.
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It may be tattooing or thepermanentfixtureof, perhaps, an electrical tag under the skin.
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Furthermore, from the first day the camp appeared to be apermanentfixtureand that had major implications for the local environment.
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I am sure, shared by my two fellow presidents of the associations—is that central control of local government will become apermanentfixture.
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We have made it very specific, and apermanentfixture.
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I do not want it to be apermanentfixture.
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It is no longer seasonal, casual labour, but apermanentfixtureon the employment calendar.
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It is a sad reflection that it should be necessary to have apermanentfixtureto record cancellations.
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But, thank goodness, he is not apermanentfixtureand will not be there much longer.
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It would not be enormously costly or apermanentfixture.
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It is apermanentfixture, believe it or not.
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Let us not think of this as being apermanentfixturejust because it has been a success for a period of 10 or 11 years.
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But he is not apermanentfixture.
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Has he yet been able to form any idea whether this work is being regarded as apermanentfixture, or is being looked on rather as a temporary stop-gap?
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In 2002, the measure became apermanentfixturein the penal code.
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It laments on how life is always moving and that nothing in life is apermanentfixture.
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Eventually granite, a much denser rock than coquina, was used and the jeeties became apermanentfixture.
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She ingratiates herself with the family and eventually becomes apermanentfixture.
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It was planted in the front yard of the temple, where it was grown up and become apermanentfixture.
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