extensive revision

collocation in English

meaningsofextensiveandrevision

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extensive
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈsten.sɪv/us
/ɪkˈsten.sɪv/
covering a large area; having a ...
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revision
noun
uk
/rɪˈvɪʒ.ən/us
/rɪˈvɪʒ.ən/
a change that is made to something, or the process of ...
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(Definition ofextensiveandrevisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofextensive revision

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Rather, it took centuries to recognize thatextensiverevisionand editing in writing can result in the extremely dense informational styles found in academic prose.
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Their writing practices are characterized byextensiverevision, as they try to get closer to what they mean.
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Regulators already know from hard experience that the orderly butextensiverevisionof the rulebook is demanding and expensive.
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I have mentioned those points to indicate my agreement with the committee's view that the proposed directive needsextensiverevisionbefore it can be accepted.
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It is true that our joint stock company law has worked fairly satisfactorily but there has been noextensiverevisionof it for some twenty years.
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It was anextensiverevisionto the third generation car, instead of a clean-sheet design.
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Shulgi is best known for hisextensiverevisionof the scribal school's curriculum.
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In 2001 a veryextensiverevisiontook place as a total of 79 articles were amended.
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This title is anextensiverevisionof the first edition, which was published in 1972, and has 2600 new entries.
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The subfamily has since undergoneextensiverevision, and most genera have been placed elsewhere.
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Chipperfield's first designs featured plain cubes with a hull of satin glass and steel, causing various protests which led to anextensiverevisionin 2007.
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That said, most chapters are not extensive revisions of the 1981 originals.
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Hopefully the extensive revisions now make this a more convincing paper.
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A live hypothesis is a proposition whose adoption would not entail widespread and extensive revisions within one's web of beliefs.
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It underwent three extensive revisions in his lifetime, and fifth posthumous edition is still in print.
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He proceeded to make two extensive revisions of the work in 1953 and 1955 respectively.
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He continued making extensive revisions to the book, up until his death.
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First published in 1972, it has been reissued in a number of editions, undergoing extensive revisions and additions.
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This version featured extensive revisions to the plot and the addition and omission of several musical numbers.
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Congress made extensive revisions in the text among which the ban was originally rejected.
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