close acquaintance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcloseandacquaintance
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close
adjective
uk/kləʊs/us/kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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acquaintance
noun
uk/əˈkweɪn.təns/us/əˈkweɪn.təns/
a person that you have met but do not ...
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(Definition ofcloseandacquaintancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Lemon and colleagues hypothesised that the most intimate activities generate the greatest role support, because the responders havecloseacquaintancewith the subjects and their capacities.
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I speak from acloseacquaintancewith the work of residential staffs, especially in the child-care field.
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I lack that intimate andcloseacquaintancewith prisons and prison life which evidently he has obtained.
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It is essential that they should havecloseacquaintanceboth with the people and with the problems with which they have to deal.
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It is due, as it seems to me, to its author's lack ofcloseacquaintancewith his case.
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Those tourists will have paid several thousands of pounds for the trip and may expect value for money in the form ofcloseacquaintancewith the wildlife.
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As he will know fromcloseacquaintancewith the situation, although it is distressing in many ways, a number of initiatives have been taken that are achieving certain results.
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He speaks with knowledge andcloseacquaintancewith the motor car industry, which is, of course, such an important factor in the life and work of his constituency.
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Is he more expert than those who have had acloseacquaintancewith foreign affairs for 16 or 17 years, and for six or seven years a very intimate acquaintance?
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We shall get a report, and we are only too ready to receive all relevant information from those who havecloseacquaintancewith the condition of these poor people.
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I think it is true to say that most families have over the years lost a relative, a friend or acloseacquaintanceas the result of a road accident.
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This they did, and fun it was until they made an uncomfortablycloseacquaintancewith several 4.5 shells from a cruiser lurking in the vicinity.
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Detectives said they believed that the man in the recording was trying to send a message that acloseacquaintancehad forced him to make the recording.
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Talk, for social capital theorists, is good, especially when it exposes us to the ideas, opinions, hopes and beliefs of people outside our narrow circle of close acquaintances.
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In the 1980s he used to take pictures of his friends and close acquaintances as part of his artistic work.
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Elgar dedicated the piece to my friends pictured within, each variation being an affectionate portrayal of one of his circle of close acquaintances (see musical cryptogram).
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