kin group
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkinandgroup
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kin
noun[plural]
uk/kɪn/us/kɪn/
old-fashioned
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group
noun
uk/ɡruːp/us/ɡruːp/
a number of people or things that are put together or considered as ...
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(Definition ofkinandgroupfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofkin group
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Through marriage alliances, claims to land can be kept within thekingroupor might be ceded to another group.
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They are unlikely to have formed akingroupwith a commonly recognized set of ancestors.
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It marks the growth of the family andkingroupthrough new births, marks the increase in the number of arms to work and fight.
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Such gossip, if leaked, will certainly jeopardize the social status of the family with knock-on effects on all marriageable youths in theirkingroup.
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It is only in recent times that this custom has come to show the general enthusiasm, joy and jubilation of the family andkingroup.
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Family genealogies have been rewritten, sometimes reaching back over a thousand years, to redefine the presentkingroup.
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Some of these association leaders attempt to use thekingroupto launch electoral bids.
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Marriage, the family/thekingroup, and gender relations are critical areas for this identity politics.
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But they could argue over their status by asserting their links to a widerkingroup.
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In his view, we can discern the gradual dissolution of a traditionalkingroupstructure.
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This continuity of belief helped, in turn, to preserve the importance of the wider family andkingroup.
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Sometimes the name was applied by extension to thekingrouphe leads.
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The results show no such interaction, again suggesting that the value of the optimumkingroupwas no different for women with and without major disease accompanied by significant dysfunction.
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Winberg describes how thekingroupwas defined in the seventeenth century, and also points out that it was restricted in the early eighteenth century.
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An individual in akingroupmay benefit from the investment of his other kin in thekingroupwithout investing in the good of his kin himself.
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Secondly, the composition of thekingroupalso differed between the two cultures.
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