comprehensive revision

collocation in English

meaningsofcomprehensiveandrevision

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comprehensive
adjective
uk
/ˌkɒm.prɪˈhen.sɪv/us
/ˌkɑːm.prəˈhen.sɪv/
complete and including everything that ...
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revision
noun
uk
/rɪˈvɪʒ.ən/us
/rɪˈvɪʒ.ən/
a change that is made to something, or the process of ...
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(Definition ofcomprehensiveandrevisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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By the 1980s the existing convention was seen as outdated, reflecting an underlying assimilationist agenda and in need ofcomprehensiverevision.
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Instead, compiler writers are working on acomprehensiverevisionof the initial basis, which will be independent of the library.
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The main initiatives are: undertaking acomprehensiverevisionof guidance on the management of health and safety in construction projects.
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Clearly, these objectives are to secure more rapid expansion and to have acomprehensiverevisionand improvement of the social services.
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Acomprehensiverevisionof the original feasibility study which was circulated with the consultation paper last year is currently under way.
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Acomprehensiverevisionis essential because, save in respect of husbands and fiances, the rules have remained substantially unchanged since 1973.
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They are not acomprehensiverevisionof the rules as a whole.
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Accordingly, we propose to introduce by amendment acomprehensiverevisionof virtually all the penalties for contraventions of our laws dealing with safety at sea.
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Nearly one half of the species of madtom catfishes was described in the singlecomprehensiverevisionof the group.
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Thiscomprehensiverevisionof the genus has now been widely accepted.
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However, we found that some authors do not place species in any species group as part of the species description and that comprehensive revisions might be necessary.
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He was one of the most renown land snail experts of his time and had earned a reputation for his comprehensive revisions of mainly terrestrial pulmonates.
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