edited collection

collocation in English

meaningsofeditandcollection

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edit
noun[C, usually singular]
uk
/ˈed.ɪt/
us
/ˈed.ɪt/
an act of making changes to a text or film, deciding what will be removed and what will be kept in, in order to prepare it for being printed ...
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collection
noun
uk
/kəˈlek.ʃən/
us
/kəˈlek.ʃən/
a group of objects of one type that have been collected by one person or in ...
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(Definition ofeditandcollectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofedited collection

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Arguably it is in this final section that thiseditedcollectionmakes its strongest contribution to the new literature on social care.
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The strength of thiseditedcollectionis that it brings together primarily economists writing about increasingly political questions.
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Thiseditedcollectionis a worthwhile addition to this material.
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But from an active academic reviewer's point of view, theeditedcollectionis problematic.
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Inevitably for aneditedcollectionin five volumes, some of the chapters are less well written than others.
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Among the book's weaknesses is the fact that it is aneditedcollection, with varying degrees of analysis from one chapter to the next.
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This is exactly what thiseditedcollectionsets out to do and largely succeeds in doing.
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It is not a conventionaleditedcollection; it is much more the work of a research team.
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This substantialeditedcollection(of 270 pages) has strengths and limitations.
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Thiseditedcollectionis introduced by a comprehensive discussion of the issues that bear on planning time and that have emerged from previous studies.
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The advantage of aneditedcollection, of course, is that each chapter can be written by a specialist.
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I also think he would have appreciated this collage, aneditedcollectionof voices from his network of colleagues, friendships, and family.
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Theeditedcollectionin which this article appears contains a number of other articles that are relevant to the issues addressed in this review.
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As aneditedcollection, it is perhaps inevitable that some chapters hold more appeal than others.
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Editedcollectionon intercountry adoption.
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The other is aneditedcollection.
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Nevertheless, the overall aim of theeditedcollectionis ambitious and some useful contributions to the debate of how political economy impacts upon local spaces are made.
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Thiseditedcollectionis the result of the collaborative effort of a group of some of the leading scholars in the field of developmental language disorders.
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