definitive account

collocation in English

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definitive
adjective
uk
/dɪˈfɪn.ɪ.tɪv/us
/dɪˈfɪn.ə.t̬ɪv/
not able to be changed ...
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account
noun
uk
/əˈkaʊnt/us
/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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(Definition ofdefinitiveandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Written by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, this book gives adefinitiveaccountof gesture and its study.
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The one thing absent from this otherwisedefinitiveaccountis a sense of how it felt from the inside to inherit this sad history.
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But so far as the view from above is concerned, this is thedefinitiveaccount.
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For present purposes, adefinitiveaccountof the role of jurors is not necessary as the foregoing observations are sufficient to establish that the jury's role is normatively significant.
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There is nodefinitiveaccountof the overall effect on the region.
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Adefinitiveaccountof the poll tax has been written.
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Should remain thedefinitiveaccountof these events.
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It is now widely accepted as adefinitiveaccountof the disaster and its aftermath.
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As a consequence, it is not possible to provide adefinitiveaccountof what it is to follow a rule.
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He offers what must count for now as definitive accounts of the conditions allowing these interactions.
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Parkman's influential book, thedefinitiveaccountof the war for nearly a century, is still in print.
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This transcendence of concrete content allowed for variedand opposingreadings of the musico-emotional content of a symphony while also rendering adefinitiveaccountof its meaning impossible.
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