definite meaning

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definite
adjective
uk
/ˈdef.ɪ.nət/us
/ˈdef.ən.ət/
fixed, certain, ...
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meaning
noun
uk
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/us
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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(Definition ofdefiniteandmeaningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdefinite meaning

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Such an instruction has nodefinitemeaningbecause it has infinite meanings.
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Man was a word with adefinitemeaning, but not-man was so broad as to have no meaning at all.
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However, the word "enterprise" has adefinitemeaningwithin the market mechanism and it is not about training.
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Those are very definite words with a verydefinitemeaning.
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People know what an injunction is: it has adefinitemeaning.
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These words have a verydefinitemeaningin so far as they are words strung together.
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The word "spiritual" is either quite innocuous and meaningless or it has adefinitemeaning.
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Why put in the term "working-classes" if they did not attach anydefinitemeaningto it?
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I want to suggest that the term "net aggregate receipts" had adefinitemeaning.
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I am told that it has nodefinitemeaningin law.
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In the ordinary terminology of public health the phrase "infectious disease" has adefinitemeaning.
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It has had in the past, it may have again in the future, a very precise anddefinitemeaning.
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The word "welfare" has acquired adefinitemeaningin industrial life and it includes the wider matters expressed in the definition.
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We attach importance to things which have very precise anddefinitemeaningand not to vague phrases which are extremely difficult to understand precisely.
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As long as they retained the words "working-classes," surely they ought to attach somedefinitemeaningto them.
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The word "nationalisation" has a perfectly clear anddefinitemeaning.
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It seems to me the word "summoning" has adefinitemeaning.
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Concepts such as permitting, allowing, suffering and controlling all exist and have adefinitemeaning, but there is no such precision in this clause.
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