personal communication

collocation in English

meaningsofpersonalandcommunication

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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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communication
noun
uk
/kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/kəˌmjuː.nəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act of communicating ...
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(Definition ofpersonalandcommunicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Literacy is used in a range of everyday contexts, in and out of the home, in terms of organizing life,personalcommunication, and private leisure.
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Interestingly, however, the importance ofpersonalcommunicationvaried strongly between countries.
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The contexts of the artifacts were analyzed based on maps, available excavation records, andpersonalcommunicationwith the excavators, when possible.
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Quality, range and price competition are important reasons for sourcing (personalcommunication).
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Miles (personalcommunication) has shown that, to within the same order of error, such a configuration is consistent with global momentum conservation.
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The authors recognize this point, and are currently trying to show rigorously that an additional boundary condition is required (personalcommunication).
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To shed light on the nature of the mediating role ofpersonalcommunicationregarding mass communication a different perspective on the data is needed.
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We now have a whole new system with split calls and subspecialists in incident response' ' (personalcommunication).
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A further seven were found by hand searching of nursing journals, from conference presentations andpersonalcommunication.
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It includes substantial variation in party systems, media systems and patterns ofpersonalcommunication, as well as diverse social structures.
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On the one hand, they will end up accepting some of them since there is no inhibitingpersonalcommunication.
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Such influences will not be additionally reinforced bypersonalcommunication, but they will also not be neutralized.
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Both mass communication andpersonalcommunicationare thus important sources of political information which increasingly become influential with regard to citizens' voting decisions.
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Voters'personalcommunicationwith their associates has not only a considerable direct impact on their votes.
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