extensive network
collocation in Englishmeaningsofextensiveandnetwork
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extensive
adjective
uk/ɪkˈsten.sɪv/us/ɪkˈsten.sɪv/
covering a large area; having a ...
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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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(Definition ofextensiveandnetworkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus, investiture became a means of forging a loose butextensivenetworkof political alliances expressed through religious hegemony.
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Anextensivenetworkanalysis profile was developed for each respondent through informal conversations.
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In contrast to an area like job training, the federal government has anextensivenetworkof telecommunications regulators at its disposal.
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They were constantly on the run in terrain unfamiliar to them, without anextensivenetworkof previously established contacts.
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As an entrepreneur, he had to depend on anextensivenetworkof merchants who could be instrumental in disposing of the merchandise in the interior.
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All of these operations were run through anextensivenetworkof offshore accounts from which commissions were then paid to regime notables and foreign middlemen.
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Theextensivenetworkof terracing and irrigation were abandoned, and farmers were forced to migrate to lower altitudes to farm marginal land.
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The resulting architecture was only possible through ourextensivenetworkand the never-ending energy and ambition of the students.
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Theextensivenetworkof lakes and creeks in its hinterland provided the necessary transportation infrastructure, the only physical alterations required were the clearing of logs and brush.
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International aviation was traditionally regulated through anextensivenetworkof bilateral agreements.
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Large estates of land are successively turned into anextensivenetworkof streets and squares, a process which can be explained through a series of maps charting the city's growth.
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There is already anextensivenetworkof bus and coach services serving major urban centres.
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The difficulty, however, is that such wholesale rebuilding of such anextensivenetworkof roads would be prohibitively expensive.
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Ourextensivenetworkof public rights of way is a valuable recreational resource.
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One has to measure the number of closures against theextensivenetworkof telephone kiosks.
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Even such an increase would not provide a police presence throughout theextensivenetworkand it is hoped to improve their internal and external communications.
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The road building boom of the late 1960s and early 1970s has provided us with anextensivenetworkof motorways and trunk roads.
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But having anextensivenetworkis always more profitable, because the more customers you can reach the more convincing the service you can offer.
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