arbitrary division

collocation in English

meaningsofarbitraryanddivision

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arbitrary
adjective
uk
/ˈɑː.bɪ.trər.i/us
/ˈɑːr.bə.trer.i/
based on chance rather than being planned or based ...
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division
noun
uk
/dɪˈvɪʒ.ən/us
/dɪˈvɪʒ.ən/
the act of separating something into parts or groups, or the way that it ...
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(Definition ofarbitraryanddivisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The contents of each book reflect this intertwining of argument, and suggest anarbitrarydivisionof the material between the two books.
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It is anarbitrarydivisionwhich it is very difficult to make.
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Great houses or small houses—there is noarbitrarydivision.
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I know that it is very difficult to get anyarbitrarydivisionhere.
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The fixing of a certain period is bound to impose anarbitrarydivision.
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In the second place, boundaries are a purelyarbitrarydivision; the geological construction of the land takes no notice of them whatever.
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If mathematics mean anything, they certainly do not mean anarbitrarydivision.
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It has always seemed to me a ratherarbitrarydivisionto say where the borderline comes between the producer and the consumer.
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This means that we do not think it right to create anarbitrarydivisionbetween those who retire before 1972 and those who retire after.
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I personally have no objection to the week's gap, nor indeed to thearbitrarydivisionof subjects.
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I believe that was a legitimate ifarbitrarydivision.
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Surely it will be quite unworkable to have thisarbitrarydivisionbetween the statutory and non-statutory powers.
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If there were, this would not seem fair or reasonable to stockholders who had no reason to expect thisarbitrarydivisionto be made.
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However, there is no other means of restoring equity given the presentarbitrarydivisionbetween byssinosis sufferers.
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I do not like the idea of probation officers or courts entering into disputes between husband and wife and making anarbitrarydivision.
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He sees it as discrimination—and discrimination at its very worst, because it is discrimination in a fighting service and is based upon thearbitrarydivisionof rank and class.
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This is anarbitrarydivision.
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Electrical phenomena are a somewhatarbitrarydivisionof electromagnetic phenomena.
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As a geographical concept, an imaginary line may serve as anarbitrarydivision(such as a border).
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With thisarbitrarydivision, the presbytery was improperly narrow for such a grand cathedral.
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