arbitrary fashion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofarbitraryandfashion
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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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fashion
noun
uk/ˈfæʃ.ən/us/ˈfæʃ.ən/
a style that is popular at a particular time, especially in clothes, hair, ...
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(Definition ofarbitraryandfashionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Secondly, sounds in music seem not to function in a fundamentallyarbitraryfashion.
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You do not improve the relations of capital and labour by allowing particular employers to act in thisarbitraryfashion.
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It is quite wrong for different operators of level crossings to be treated in different ways by the law in thisarbitraryfashion.
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Now, the so-called privileges of correspondence, visits, newspapers, sweets, radio and television are provided or withdrawn in an indiscriminatory andarbitraryfashion.
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Are people to have their rights taken away in thisarbitraryfashionand not be guaranteed any opportunity of being able to face their accusers?
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The members of the council have dealt with their employés in a veryarbitraryfashion.
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I do not approach these matters in anyarbitraryfashion; my only desire is to get the greatest co-operation from all sections of the public.
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The two-ninths fraction was arrived at, in some ways, in ratherarbitraryfashion.
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Thirty per cent, of the electors can reduce the number of licences by 25 per cent, in a mostarbitraryfashionwithout any compensation.
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I cannot, just in this ratherarbitraryfashion, dismiss it.
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In veryarbitraryfashionthey refused to allow me to do so.
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Those who are now assistant justices' clerks should not have the conditions of their employment altered in thisarbitraryfashion.
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It can do so in an almostarbitraryfashion.
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We sometimes forget that they were selected in an entirelyarbitraryfashion.
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But this is not the way to do it, in a piecemeal,arbitraryfashion.
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Would not these local influences always exercise their weight even if you did not compel the electors to come together in thisarbitraryfashionin colleges?
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That appears to impose a life-long disqualification for no apparent good reason and in a quitearbitraryfashionwhich surely cannot be the intention of the clause.
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October's so-called parliamentary election was manifestly fixed by the president in the mostarbitraryfashion.
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