closer relation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcloseandrelation
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close
adjective
uk/kləʊs/us/kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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relation
noun
uk/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/us/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/
the way in which two people or groups of people feel and behave towards ...
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(Definition ofcloseandrelationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcloser relation
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Afterwards, we discuss approaches bearing acloserrelationto our work.
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In these patients cardiac and vascular malformation may be incloserrelationthan hitherto assumed.
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The elevations bear acloserrelationto the proportions of the room as planned and built.
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The conclusion here is that the parallel architecture permits a farcloserrelationbetween competence and performance theories.
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But mobility as a more complex, open-ended process may bear muchcloserrelationto the realities faced by past populations.
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Illness may also be experienced as redemptive - a vehicle to a transformation of human character or to acloserrelationto the divine.
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The extremalizing vector field will show an evencloserrelationto the observed turbulence when additional constraints derived from the basic equations are introduced in the variational problem.
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A year later these strengths could be reconsidered incloserrelationto our long-term plan.
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I believe that in future there must be a muchcloserrelationbetween pensions and the level of wages.
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Correspondingly, a current-year basis would bring the tax intocloserrelationwith the income which was taxed.
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But it has not necessarily anycloserrelationto the realities because it is a nice round figure.
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There are signs, however, that supply and demand are now incloserrelationand local authorities should keep in touch with their normal selling channels.
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So many problems of the coal industry could be more easily sorted out if coal prices bore acloserrelationto production costs.
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I do urge that value payments must be brought in muchcloserrelationto reality, to the actual cost of reinstating what has been damaged.
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I do not say that we could have wholly elected consumer councils, but we must do something to bring them intocloserrelationwith the consumer.
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I suggested a year ago that there should be acloserrelationbetween the two in order to ensure that there was co-ordinated expansion of technological education.
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I believe that the area boards have made a most useful contribution in bringing the railways nearer to and incloserrelationwith the public who are their customers.
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A couple also may not marry a member of another lakinyeri if they have a great-grandparent (orcloserrelation) in common.
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