substantive meaning

collocation in English

meaningsofsubstantiveandmeaning

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substantive
adjective
uk
/səbˈstæn.tɪv/us
/səbˈstæn.t̬ɪv/
important, serious, or related to ...
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meaning
noun
uk
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/us
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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(Definition ofsubstantiveandmeaningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsubstantive meaning

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Later it assumed thesubstantivemeaningof short aria.
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In such a case, the courts might well be able to stretch thesubstantivemeaningof state law.
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This implies that thesubstantivemeaningof left and right does indeed vary across countries.
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Nonetheless, we have made a very explicit attempt to 'anchor' thesubstantivemeaningof the scales.
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Thesubstantivemeaningof this common structure remains unclear.
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It is useful to reflect on thesubstantivemeaningof this statistical independence.
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An important decision to be made when interpreting political spaces concerns thesubstantivemeaning of the basis vectors or dimensions that are used in any interpretation.
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Although the wording is slightly different from that which formerly appeared, there is no change in thesubstantivemeaning.
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The second,substantivemeaningpresupposes neither rational decision-making nor conditions of scarcity.
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In 2007, the entire set of civil rules was edited to be clearer and simpler without changingsubstantivemeaning.
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It often appears in the feminine plural as asubstantivemeaningevil omens.
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The first is asubstantivemeaningthat refers to the relationship humans have with one another and to the earth.
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The second,substantivemeaning, however, presupposes neither rational decision-making nor conditions of scarcity.
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Polanyi argues that only thesubstantivemeaningof economics is appropriate for analysing the latter.
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