traditional concept

collocation in English

meaningsoftraditionalandconcept

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traditional
adjective
uk
/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/us
/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/
following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of people or society for a long time ...
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concept
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sept/us
/ˈkɑːn.sept/
a principle ...
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(Definition oftraditionalandconceptfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This necessarily entails the differentiation of thetraditionalconceptof cohort and generation.
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However, there are more problems with thetraditionalconceptof apposition than our account might have so far led us to believe.
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By the early twentieth century thetraditionalconceptof the ethical personality no longer seemed adequate to human reality.
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Thetraditionalconceptof equilibria is that they represent where ideally rational agents would play, given certain information conditions.
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As noted above, thetraditionalconceptof melancholy by no means disappeared in the second half of the seventeenth century, though it was often invested with new meanings and interpretations.
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While he rejects thetraditionalconceptof analogy and generative accounts as well, he argues that analogy can be defined so long as morphology as well as phonology is considered.
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Actually, as it will be clear in the following, we are interested in an idea of specialisation of a given p-goal which extends thetraditionalconceptof instantiation.
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That is thetraditionalconceptin a nutshell.
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Does not that illustrate the dangerous consequences of abandoning thetraditionalconceptof collective ministerial responsibility?
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The judges declared that their decision did not undermine thetraditionalconceptof marriage.
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It is absolutely clear that thetraditionalconceptof free and fair competition in world shipbuilding terms is currently at stake.
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The conservatives have scorned this as being what they call a watered-down version of thetraditionalconceptof civil human rights.
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The loss of society award was conceived as being different from thetraditionalconceptof solatium—for pain and suffering—for dependants.
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It is not about taking anything away from or weakening what thetraditionalconceptof the nation state represents.
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Detention runs counter to thetraditionalconceptof the rule of law.
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Lastly, the mandatory provision "if the court thinks"and"the court shall" is wholly inconsistent with anytraditionalconceptof trial by jury and is totally unworkable.
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The document contains issues that do not fall under thetraditionalconceptof ‘human rights’; indeed, they go far beyond the original meaning.
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We should certainly give equal opportunities to women, but we should create a society in which thetraditionalconceptof the family is nurtured.
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Nevertheless, the majority of our young people who enter marriage enter it with the oldtraditionalconceptof a life bond.
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