meaningful discussion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmeaningfulanddiscussion
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meaningful
adjective
uk/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fəl/us/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fəl/
intended to show meaning, ...
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discussion
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈskʌʃ.ən/us/dɪˈskʌʃ.ən/
the activity in which people talk about something and tell each other their ideas ...
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Should there not be some real,meaningfuldiscussion?
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In fact our understanding of genes is far too primitive to allow ameaningfuldiscussionof what genotype makes a human being.
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This data restriction disallowed for anymeaningfuldiscussionabout economic status of entrepreneurs as compared with that of political, managerial, and professional elites.
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Anymeaningfuldiscussionof the very nature of current political regimes, and their uneasy relations with particular socioeconomic settings, is thereby avoided.
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Whether these changes will provoke ameaningfuldiscussionof what the nature of electroacoustic music and the art of projection are, remains to be seen.
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If there is extremely full information and communication beforehand, there might bemeaningfuldiscussion.
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We are trying to position ourselves in a manner which makes ameaningfuldiscussionpossible.
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We cannot have ameaningfuldiscussionunless the point is cleared up.
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It must be defined if we are to have anymeaningfuldiscussionabout it.
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It is surely best if we could have such ameaningfuldiscussion.
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There is no other way in which there can be anymeaningfuldiscussionof the subject.
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We want to have it at a high political level in order to have ameaningfuldiscussion.
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They stand accused of making major changes withoutmeaningfuldiscussionand without realising the consequences of their actions.
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Having said that, one must then go on to say that ameaningfuldiscussionis taking place.
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Meaningfuldiscussionof the other issues involved in this case have been made impossible by the attitude of the company.
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You have there a mandatory situation where the maximum and the minimum are the same and wheremeaningfuldiscussioncannot take place.
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Has there been anymeaningfuldiscussionor consultation about this with either the district councils or with the new town development corporations?
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The whole of clause 80 should be deleted until there has been moremeaningfuldiscussionwith the oil industry to find a compromise.
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We will try to help him devise such a procedure, because that is the only way in which one can havemeaningfuldiscussionof such legislation.
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This tactic could be said to stretch the category's usefulness inmeaningfuldiscussionin a broader context.
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But because of the impossible situation in which we find ourselves we can have nomeaningfuldiscussion on a number of important points and no opportunity to vote upon them.
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It seems to me that one can have ameaningfuldiscussionabout specific parts, but not about the total, in the absence of knowing the resources to which it relates.
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By then, we will have concluded or at least made progress in our review, and we will be able to have a moremeaningfuldiscussionthan we could now.
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As a result, the younger generation hardly gets any opportunity to share ideas with their elders or to enter into ameaningfuldiscussion.
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