elaborate set

collocation in English

meaningsofelaborateandset

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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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set
noun
uk
/set/
us
/set/
a group of similar things that belong together in ...
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(Definition ofelaborateandsetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofelaborate set

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As we know, they were instantiated by anelaboratesetof surface conventions.
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This plan included anelaboratesetof measures to improve public services, in particular for older people : health care, social care, culture, leisure, transportation services and so on.
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There was anelaboratesetof figures arriving at that computation.
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Schedule 3 contains anelaboratesetof rules governing the vote by proxy.
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Of course, we recognise that it would involve a fairlyelaborateset-up.
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Why do we need anelaboratesetof institutional and administrative arrangements to administer competition policy?
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There we have got a mostelaborateset-up for telephones but nearly all of us refuse to go there.
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Do we need thiselaboratesetof details, which may well prove to be a minefield when put into practice?
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He finds them to form anelaboratesetof types.
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Theelaboratesetwent up in flames within minutes.
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Belgian goose pulling is accompanied by anelaboratesetof customs.
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Anelaboratesetof jewellery and clothing was made especially for the coronation.
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At the time, the tour'selaboratesetwas called the largest touring set ever.
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Anelaboratesetwas constructed, containing eight stages, 17 sets, and detailed models.
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It is to enable the fire services to take necessary measures of expansion without going through theelaboratesetof procedural rules which now have to be followed.
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Anelaboratesetof rotating stages provided unprecedented freedom to producers and designers, even allowing live cavalry marches on stage.
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It is anelaboratesetof nesting weight pieces, with a total metric weight of 12.238 "kg".
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It had also developed anelaboratesetof checks and balances to prevent the excessive concentration of power.
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Dallaglio categorically denied the newspaper's claim that he had dealt in drugs and said he had been the victim of anelaborateset-up.
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In addition to that ceremony, there are also two outdoor performances (dramatic and comedic plays), often withelaboratesetdesign and orchestral accompaniment.
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It had anelaboratesetof addressing modes, many of which used indirect words, some of which were auto-incrementing or auto-decrementing.
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The steps to the east are the moreelaborateset: they have stuccoed walls with moulded terracotta panels to the piers.
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Imagine that instead of a monolingual man in a room shuffling symbols we have the man operate anelaboratesetof water pipes with valves connecting them.
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Warships had anelaboratesetof procedures for handling their gunpowder; the magazines were deep in the ship and the lanterns kept in another room, with a window between.
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