substantive content
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsubstantiveandcontent
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substantive
adjective
uk/səbˈstæn.tɪv/us/səbˈstæn.t̬ɪv/
important, serious, or related to ...
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content
noun[U]
uk/kənˈtent/us/kənˈtent/
a happy and ...
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(Definition ofsubstantiveandcontentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Using factor analysis to select the items produces a set of measures that are similar insubstantivecontentand distinct from other concepts.
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The second half of the essay moves from formal concerns to thesubstantivecontentof preferences defined over comprehensive outcomes.
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Such rulings can have the samesubstantivecontentas political compromises but their legitimacy is based on legal premises and the court's authority.
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In itssubstantivecontent, the book's judgements conform more or less to what readers of this journal would tend to expect.
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Whatever one might think of the idea, it is a theory with a distinctive,substantivecontent.
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A third strand of argument in the volume concerns thesubstantivecontentof phonological representations and the phonetic grounding of phonological patterns.
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Nixon's message resembled thesubstantivecontentof his predecessors' rhetoric while differing in its application.
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Before we proceed to thesubstantivecontentof this research it should be mentioned that nothing approaching a consensus among economists exists in either of these areas.
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When one studies the most successful markedness constraints that have been proposed, one finds that indeed theirsubstantivecontentcorresponds to kinds of markedness that we saw earlier.
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For the most part, he does not offer hypotheses about thesubstantivecontentof the consensus that (according to his account) will emerge from these processes.
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In terms ofsubstantivecontent, the maximizing relation can be interpreted very differently from the way 'utility' is understood (such as pleasure, desire fulfilment, or a menu-independent preference ordering).
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Again, however, there was a serious discrepancy between the prominence and bold headline of this front-page lead, and thesubstantivecontentof the article.
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The common thread of this broad-brushsubstantivecontentis an attempt to gain a better understanding of which factors perpetuate the political, economic and social disenfranchisement of the savanna districts.
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Even if conventions are not to be considered preferable to custom, then they must surely be recognised as displacing custom when thesubstantivecontentis identical.
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Second, what is itssubstantivecontent?
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But as the fifteenth century does not form a part of thesubstantivecontentof the book we are asked to accept this argument on trust.
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Those are judged on literary merit orsubstantivecontent.
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Whether a resolution constitutes an international agreement depends not on its designation as a resolution but on itssubstantivecontent.
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Of its 176 pages, only 11 are devoted to agriculture, and those contain very littlesubstantivecontent.
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While we agree with much of what he has said, we do not agree with thesubstantivecontentof his amendments.
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