closest neighbours
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcloseandneighbour
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close
adjective
uk/kləʊs/us/kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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neighbour
noun[C]
uk/ˈneɪ.bər/us/ˈneɪ.bɚ/
someone who lives very close ...
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(Definition ofcloseandneighbourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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She is ourclosestneighbour.
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A network is called regular, if each agent is connected to his closest neighbours.
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For the sake of stability on our doorstep, we should offer tangible prospects to our closest neighbours.
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Thanks to it, we maintain stable relationships with our closest neighbours.
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They unblock the stalemate in the relations with one of our closest neighbours and our second biggest trading partner.
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I cannot conceive of a more foolish or devitalising response to the present quandary of our closest neighbours.
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We can see good examples of that among two of our closest neighbours.
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But now we have been overtaken by our closest neighbours.
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They are among our closest neighbours in all but the geographical sense.
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That would mean that we would have a better contribution to make to the world in whatever association we entered with the nations around us, including our closest neighbours.
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Europe has grown, developed and finally united as a result of its fruitful relations with peoples and cultures from all over the world, starting, of course, with its closest neighbours.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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