elaborate network

collocation in English

meaningsofelaborateandnetwork

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elaborate
adjective
uk
/iˈlæb.ər.ət/us
/iˈlæb.ɚ.ət/
containing a lot of careful detail or many ...
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network
noun[C]
uk
/ˈnet.wɜːk/us
/ˈnet.wɝːk/
a large system consisting of many similar parts that are connected together to allow movement or communication between or along the parts, or between the parts and a ...
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In response, the authorities set up anelaboratenetworkof trickling filters which were originally constructed for supplying water to condense engine exhaust systems.
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As a result, they acquire anelaboratenetworkof religious beliefs.
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They arranged anelaboratenetworkof meetings, parades, and committees to sustain their action.
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What we have to do is to enter this enormouslyelaboratenetwork, subject to any transitional arrangements that may be made.
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This is anelaboratenetworkof legislative safeguards which it will be by no means easy to put into practice.
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The machinery has greatly developed in recent years, and even since the beginning of the war, and it is now a veryelaboratenetwork.
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Anelaboratenetworkof roads, ramps, and slides connected them with the main building areas.
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The actual character of the society was anelaboratenetworkof spies and counter-spies.
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The land is protected by anelaboratenetworkof dikes and levees.
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In 1838 plans were drawn up for a moreelaboratenetworkof coastal fortifications.
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The local chalk cave which had been in the village since prehistoric times was expanded into anelaboratenetworkof tunnels and passages.
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This facilitated rainwater harvesting through anelaboratenetworkof tanks.
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Anelaboratenetworkof ponds also dates from that period.
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Residential roads are narrow and winding, not always signed, and interweave with anelaboratenetworkof horse paths.
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It has a large andelaboratenetworkof waterways and winding paths, with broad, lotus-covered pools and overhanging willows.
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Inside is anelaboratenetworkof stairways leading to terraces and corbelled cells in the wall reached by passages.
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Brotton discusses the elaborate networks that underpinned the acquisition of art, which included artists, writers, thinkers, courtiers, entrepreneurs, and so on.
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These bodies have developed in some cases quite elaborate networks which have a great deal of expertise.
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Neurons form elaborate networks through which nerve impulses (action potentials) travel.
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