authoritative account
collocation in Englishmeaningsofauthoritativeandaccount
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authoritative
adjective
uk/ɔːˈθɒr.ɪ.tə.tɪv/us/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬ə.t̬ɪv/
showing that you are confident, in control, and expect to be respected ...
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account
noun
uk/əˈkaʊnt/us/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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(Definition ofauthoritativeandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Clearly no single article can be anauthoritativeaccount.
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The monograph is anauthoritativeaccountof the subject and one that should be studied by all interested in unsteady supersonic flow theory.
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As might be expected from this fact alone, these papers constitute a thoroughly up-to-date,authoritativeaccountof the subject presented by leading researchers from around the world.
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Eichner (1997) gives anauthoritativeaccountof how this process has worked in the health and safety area.
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Then he gave us anauthoritativeaccountof how long it took to train a man in a ship.
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The report, which is being published today, provides anauthoritativeaccountof the standards of social security adjudication.
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The report is a wide-ranging andauthoritativeaccountof what can be done to improve local authorities' performance in this area.
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It is by far the mostauthoritativeaccountof human rights violations in that period.
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I have not yet been able to get a full andauthoritativeaccountof the circumstances of her arrest.
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The report which is being published today provides anauthoritativeaccountof the standards of social security adjudication.
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That would have enabled him to pre-empt the rumour mill and give anauthoritativeaccountof the position.
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It may be that it will be able to produce anauthoritativeaccountand advise on this by midsummer or near that time.
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Parliament, as well as the media, has a right to hear anauthoritativeaccountof what has gone on, to ask questions and to consider the matter.
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This was a much quoted andauthoritativeaccountof the late 19th century history of the country.
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There is no one singleauthoritativeaccountof the creation of the cosmos, but rather a series of several accounts.
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In 1971, he published two volumes on the organic chemistry of palladium which were widely recognised as the mostauthoritativeaccountof the organo-complexes of this metal.
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There are authoritative accounts of medieval and early modern administration, religious life and the economic fortunes of the town through to the end of the twentieth century.
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