personal acquaintance

collocation in English

meaningsofpersonalandacquaintance

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personal
adjective
uk
/ˈpɜː.sən.əl/us
/ˈpɝː.sən.əl/
relating or belonging to a single or particular person rather than to a group or ...
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acquaintance
noun
uk
/əˈkweɪn.təns/us
/əˈkweɪn.təns/
a person that you have met but do not ...
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(Definition ofpersonalandacquaintancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpersonal acquaintance

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This might suggest thatpersonalacquaintanceplayed an important role in selecting contributors.
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The expansion of scientific communities tended to undermine earlier presumptions ofpersonalacquaintance and contact with the then small number of competent researchers in any single subject area.
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The details may be those of apersonalacquaintance: a neighbour, perhaps, or an ex-wife's new partner.
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I can think of one or two such women within mypersonalacquaintance.
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I am able to say, from a considerable number of years ofpersonalacquaintance, that this is just the person we want.
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I have hadpersonalacquaintancewith and knowledge of many tragic cases of war widows.
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I know frompersonalacquaintancethat many of these young men are persevering and diligent, and at their father's desire they work hard.
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My ownpersonalacquaintancewith the seabed is marginal in the exact sense of that word.
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Throughpersonalacquaintancewith them, we have known their fears and their ambitions.
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This means there is a degree of co-operation and trust among them, and a network ofpersonalacquaintance.
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I hope he will take pains to enlarge hispersonalacquaintancewith them and extend it from the written descriptions with which we are all very familiar.
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I have found that a great number of magistrates who send people to prison have nopersonalacquaintance with the prisons which they are entitled to visit.
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I have no personal knowledge of, nor intimatepersonalacquaintancewith, any of their discussions, except in so far as they were presented to us in the report.
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It is impossible for anybody who has had anypersonalacquaintancewith business not to feel a good deal of sympathy with that point of view.
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We want to make hispersonalacquaintance.
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However, he considers assertions ofpersonalacquaintancebetween the two men to be speculation.
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The incidental descriptions of these places suggest their authorspersonalacquaintancewith them.
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It is the form used when people take part in a situation merely as representatives of social roles, wherepersonalacquaintanceis not a factor.
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Almost always on the watch for competent collaborators, he discovered the majority by his own exertions,personalacquaintanceusually developing into lifelong friendship.
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This commencement of a business connection was soon followed by apersonalacquaintancebetween author and publisher, which ripened into intimacy.
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