means of communication
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmeansandcommunication
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means
noun
uk/miːnz/us/miːnz/
a method or way of ...
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communication
noun
uk/kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/kəˌmjuː.nəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act of communicating ...
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(Definition ofmeansandcommunicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmeans of communication
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Meansofcommunicationwould have to be abolished.
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Philips pleaded for a radical improvement in themeansofcommunicationbetween government and the - illiterate - majority of the population.
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Theoretically there is the challenge of contributing to current debates on how music is perceived, understood and used as an effectivemeansofcommunication.
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This tradition, which stresses "implicit language, multiple meanings, and ambiguity as an importantmeansofcommunication" (p. 9), conflicts with contemporary notions of academic literacy.
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Consider the use of othermeansofcommunication, including the use of faces to express feelings, and drawing and the use of models.
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But while operatic characters live in a musical environment, singing being their normalmeansofcommunication, they are typically deaf to the sounds surrounding them.
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Since the 1970s, resources, infrastructure, andmeansofcommunicationhave slowly become more complex, supporting the development of a more sophisticated market system.
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The roman alphabet, in other words, created an otherwise impossiblemeansofcommunicationbetween the gospel and the herd.
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All cultures have well-developed rituals and ritualmeansofcommunication.
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And so many of the other printed written forms are individualmeansofcommunication.
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Limitedmeansofcommunicationand highly decentralized and poorly accessible data seriously undermine feasibility of effectiveness studies.
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They aremeansofcommunicationwith deities and with the ancestors.
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Since the company functions across many borders, it is not always easy for employees to find a suitablemeansofcommunicationwith their colleagues elsewhere.
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There was no talking - the music had come to the fore and was the onlymeansofcommunication.
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It does not function as the primarymeansofcommunicationof its speakers.
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And this watching, waiting, listening, and talking, embraces troubles talk as itsmeansofcommunication.
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All participants had oral language as their primarymeansofcommunication.
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The latter three were introduced specifically as ameansofcommunicationand expression, while the former was intending to break from all previous musical order.
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They can be defined with greater clarity, if we look more closely at themeansofcommunicationemployed by the speaker.
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