mode of communication
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodeandcommunication
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mode
noun
uk/məʊd/us/moʊd/
formal
a way of operating, living, ...
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communication
noun
uk/kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/kəˌmjuː.nəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act of communicating ...
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(Definition ofmodeandcommunicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The researcher observed a link between the activity engaged in and themodeofcommunicationadopted.
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Thismodeofcommunicationfacilitated a cohesive performance and at times contained sympathetically attuned musical cues that focused on cohesive issues rather than creative issues.
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The 'care-speak 'modeofcommunicationemployed by care workers supports the everyday patterns of care.
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The internet offers anothermodeofcommunicationable to reflect the dynamic and evolving knowledge of northern peoples.
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But by nature broadcasting was a unidirectionalmodeofcommunication; what the villager heard was determined from a distant, unseen location, the transmitting station.
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We are of course concerned here with themodeofcommunicationof architectural knowledge.
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Recent research suggests this underlyingmodeofcommunicationmay be more pervasive than we realize.
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There was also concern that an extramodeofcommunicationwould just serve to increase their workload.
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Spoken language, due to its spontaneity, is probably themodeofcommunicationwhere the description of social and cognitive relationships needs more elaboration and research.
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Mormando has some good things to say about this quintessentially oralmodeofcommunication.
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In the second year, children conceptualize abstract relations between symbols and their real-world referents in language, and language is fast emerging as the significantmodeofcommunication.
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These studies are only a few of those which focus on email in particular as amodeofcommunicationin organizations, many of which do not involve language contact.
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The 'interpersonal narrative voice' (storytelling as the archetypalmodeofcommunication) is seminal for a psychosocial approach to welfare organisations and practice; organisations must find the communicative space.
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Verbal instruction emerged mainly when the group was beginning rehearsal of a piece and provided an appropriate non-democraticmodeofcommunicationfor initiating performance.
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The ordinance was liberal-democratic in orientation and favored a trade-union policy that relied on negotiation instead of confrontation as the mainmodeofcommunicationbetween the laborers and the industrialists.
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Nor is the process of selecting amodeofcommunicationthat is appropriate for matching the specific kinds of knowledge to be shared with their intended audiences.
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Now this newmodeofcommunicationand transport must maintain for us the same position.
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Hismodeofcommunicationis not just waffle, but multi-directional waffle.
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The normalmodeofcommunicationwould be through the society or directly between commission and auditor with the knowledge of the society.
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I have now been informed that mobile phones are the normalmodeofcommunicationbetween the police and the abnormal load's "second man".
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