modern equivalent
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodernandequivalent
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modern
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ən/us/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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equivalent
noun[C usually singular]
uk/ɪˈkwɪv.əl.ənt/us/ɪˈkwɪv.əl.ənt/
something that has the same amount, value, purpose, qualities, etc. as ...
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(Definition ofmodernandequivalentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Themodernequivalentis presidential government.
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We are today talking about itsmodernequivalent.
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This is themodernequivalentof "gunboat diplomacy".
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It has been described as themodernequivalentof branding.
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Armed with an outline design the would-be landowning builder now came to the practical problem, themodernequivalentof hanging the ceiling paper.
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Are they to have radar protection—themodernequivalentto the anti-submarine loop?
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However, themodernequivalentof £400 in 1912 is £40,000 a year.
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We must not have amodernequivalentof the groundnuts scheme.
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The tape recorder is themodernequivalentof the shorthand writer.
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I suppose that it is themodernequivalentof the key to the executive washroom.
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Do we hear much about that, or about itsmodernequivalent?
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Allowing that to happen is themodernequivalentof burning a witch at the stake.
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This is themodernequivalentof the old idea of conveying to a man of straw.
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That is themodernequivalentof the old idea of conveying to a man of straw.
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Let us use our expertise by replacing him by the broadermodernequivalent.
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Those students are themodernequivalentof apprentices in the old-fashioned organisation of industry.
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It has gone to provide accountants and themodernequivalentof the cash register—the computer.
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Themodernequivalentof coins is the monetary system as a whole.
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They are rarely about alliances which commit us to send gunboats or theirmodernequivalent.
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The nearestmodernequivalentis a hostel.
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It is themodernequivalentof the land overflowing with milk and honey, if we substitute sugar for honey.
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That is themodernequivalentto the mote and the beam, and the gnat and the camel.
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I have not pursued my studies to the extent of ascertaining themodernequivalentof this penalty.
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It is also necessary to provide better, updated methods of training and amodernequivalentof the old apprenticeship schemes.
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