fair description
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffairanddescription
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fair
adjective
uk/feər/us/fer/
treating someone in a way that is right or reasonable, or treating a group of people equally and not allowing personal opinions to influence ...
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description
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/us/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/
something that tells you what something or someone ...
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(Definition offairanddescriptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This may be afairdescriptionof many experiments, but it is far from being universal.
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If for 'aid' you read 'technical assistance', that is afairdescription.
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Hence, the assumption of negligible bed load may be assumed to yield afairdescriptionof the so-called upper-range bed configuration corresponding t o supercritical flow.
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I think that is afairdescriptionof what he said.
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I do not think that is afairdescription, because this horse has far more than a parish, county or, indeed, national significance.
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Some people who are fined have rather chaotic lifestyles—that seems afairdescription—and are unable to pay their fines.
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But is this altogether afairdescriptionof the situation?
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It is not afairdescriptionof the activities of the receiver, who, in many cases, manages to achieve a successful rescue act.
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I think that that is a veryfairdescription.
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His description of the restart interview process is not remotely general and is not remotely afairdescriptionof it.
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I should have thought it was afairdescriptionof the tool to be used, if that is the right term.
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Those words are not afairdescriptionof what has taken place in this case.
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I think that this is afairdescriptionof the views expressed in today's debate.
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That is not afairdescriptionof the position.
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I think that that is afairdescription.
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I think that is afairdescriptionof our system.
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I think that is afairdescriptionof it.
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I do not think he gave a quitefairdescriptionof the sufferings of the men who have undergone imprisonment and who have escaped.
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I do not think that afairdescriptionat all.
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