mere extension
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmereandextension
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mere
adjective[before noun]
uk/mɪər/us/mɪr/
used to emphasize that something is not large ...
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extension
noun
uk/ɪkˈsten.ʃən/us/ɪkˈsten.ʃən/
the fact of reaching, stretching, or continuing; the act of adding to something in order to make it bigger ...
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(Definition ofmereandextensionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Transcending themereextensionof the senses, technology simply discloses a 'way of revealing'.
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First, the prenasalisation of both stops and fricatives cannot be derived from themereextensionof nasality.
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That is nomereextensionof the former trade directory.
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This is amereextensionof the policies already pursued by this administration.
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We should stop differentiating between them, because the one is amereextensionof the other.
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These plans consist of more than themereextensionof the container berth facilities.
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That is quite a different matter from themereextensionof an existing building.
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This is a different situation from the generalmereextensionof vicarious liability.
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We have come to the conclusion that the remedy for these situations is not themereextensionof local services.
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I think that is far more important than themereextensionof the franchise which this scheme presents.
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Themereextensionof territorial waters would not necessarily have the desired effect of safeguarding the coastline.
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The public interest is not served by amereextensionof drinking hours either in the small villages or in the towns.
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Second, how much of this capital investment will be devoted to improvement of the service rather than to themereextensionof an existing service?
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Can we be sure that the new two-year scheme is intended to be a proper, integrated scheme rather than amereextensioninto a second year?
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There is no good reason why they should not be given the right of challenge, which is basically amereextensionof the right they already possess.
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If a strike within one industry is legal, how, by itsmereextensionthrough the simultaneous action of various trade unions, can it be declared illegal?
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It is amereextensionto the actual workers of a principle which has long been recognised in the professions and in regard to the higher paid hierarchy of industry.
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That is what is being done, and themereextensionof that privilege to twenty years, the lifetime of the owner, does not really meet the difficulty at all.
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Employee participation should reflect local democracy and not be amereextensionof the powers of trade union organisation, which are in all conscience, sufficiently powerful at the present time.
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A professional services network is neither amereextensionof the members nor only a support organization for independent professional services firms, but is rather an independent organization.
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