traditional style
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftraditionalandstyle
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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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style
noun
uk/staɪl/us/staɪl/
a way of doing something, especially one that is typical of a person, group of people, place, ...
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(Definition oftraditionalandstylefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The gradual increase of young females who reject thetraditionalstyleof informal care not only reflects a shift in their value system.
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A return to grand history within political science, therefore, presumes the survival of atraditionalstyleof political history-writing that covers the ground more closely.
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For example, in a bureaucratic andtraditionalstylea legal background would be dominant (cf. above).
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Both the tree and the water are represented in thetraditionalstyle.
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Atraditionalstyleis also found for the sector of food quality.
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Policymakers with a professional or managerial style will grant more autonomy than policymakers with a bureaucratic ortraditionalstyle.
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Preparing a generating extension intraditionalstyleby specializing spec with respect to e would also remove the syntax dispatch.
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The complex melodic features (compared to the limited formulas of thetraditionalstyle) gave way to a growing irregularity of form and fragmentation of phrases.
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Implementing bureaucrats or executive organisations are given little to no discretion in their daily activities in policy sectors with atraditionalstyle.
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It would be interesting to find out whether thetraditionalstyleof policymakers clashes with the private law based organisations' autonomy.
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Thetraditionalstyleof informal care, which involves passing care responsibilities onto females, is no longer regarded as the preferred approach by the majority of them.
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Only in the case of the justice sector was a (partly)traditionalstylepredicted, but the evidence - although very mixed - points more to a bureaucratic style there.
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Excel cells are used in thetraditionalstyle.
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As theorised but not predicted on the basis of data, the ministry of defence displays atraditionalstyle in its decisions to establish quangos, or actually in the lack thereof.
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Later on we will investigate the dominance of styles over time; a more conservative trend could help explain thetraditionalstyleof this new policy sector.
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We have the potential to build houses in thetraditionalstyle.
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The story of the scheme is rather a long one, and it begins in the oldtraditionalstyle.
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The town clerk had indicated what should be done but council policy was to keep buildingtraditionalstylehouses to get rid of walk-up flats.
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