fancy name
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffancyandname
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fancy
adjective
uk/ˈfæn.si/us/ˈfæn.si/
decorative ...
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name
noun
uk/neɪm/us/neɪm/
the word or words that a person, thing, or place is ...
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(Definition offancyandnamefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The constraint is that the binary tree should be atiguously marked, afancynamefor a non-contiguous marking.
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Is that afancynamefor temporary loss-leaders?
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That goes under thefancynameof managed realignment.
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Certainly it maintains or continues internment or detention, by whateverfancynameit is called.
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That means the 11-plus, whateverfancynameit is given.
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This does not indicate that afancynamemay not be registered.
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Indeed, "assembly point" is afancynamefor what, in effect, will be a detention camp.
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It is simply a matter of giving afancynameto an existing benefit.
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It is no use trying to hide an ugly situation behind afancyname.
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It is no answer to give afancynameto this awful spectre, to call it "recession"or"redundancy".
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Butazolidine as a trade mark can be used only in relation to phenylbutazone; it is afancyname.
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Let us name the alternative places, give the other site a local habitation as well as afancyname.
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We called it by somefancyname, but it was a pocket-money allowance because the old man needed it.
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That jungle of metal, concrete and glass has, as so many things do these days, afancyname—street furniture.
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In the future, such places, whateverfancynamethey may be given, such as "special areas," will want all the help that they can get.
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That is afancynamewhich means that he gets the money for taking on the people he would have taken on anyway.
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But they cannot afford to pay the sum, even with income support or anything else with afancynamefor handing out charity.
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They seem to think that so long as there is a body with afancynameit will solve all their problems, but that is not the case.
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The drug sold under thefancyname, therefore, costs nearly four times as much as the drug which is supplied in the ordinary way by properly qualified chemists.
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We were doing "nouvelle vague" a quarter of a century before they invented afancynamefor it.
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To make regulations requiring the details to be published instead of thefancynamewould be to alter the way of life which has been accepted from time immemorial.
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We wondered why people were so against using regular objects in their systems and concluded that it was because simple objects lacked afancyname.
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