outstanding characteristic
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoutstandingandcharacteristic
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outstanding
adjective
uk/ˌaʊtˈstæn.dɪŋ/us/ˌaʊtˈstæn.dɪŋ/
clearly very much better than what ...
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characteristic
noun[C]
uk/ˌkær.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/us/ˌker.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/
a typical or noticeable quality of someone ...
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(Definition ofoutstandingandcharacteristicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Itsoutstandingcharacteristicis its balanced sympathy for its subject.
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For example, from the regional point of view, the mostoutstandingcharacteristicof the new town is its central position and its remarkable accessibility.
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Courtesy was his hall-mark and friendliness hisoutstandingcharacteristic, and he joined us in other spheres besides his work.
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Is not delay in this particular office itsoutstandingcharacteristic?
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But theoutstandingcharacteristicof this protocol is that it is set out in much plainer language.
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The greatoutstandingcharacteristicof my race, independence, has gone.
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There is oneoutstandingcharacteristicof the plan.
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Theoutstandingcharacteristicof the objective proposed in the new clause is that it could be monitored only over a very long period.
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Only in this way can we secure freedom to travel as anoutstandingcharacteristicof our society without imposing needless restrictions on it.
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Theoutstandingcharacteristicof the constituency is the development of villages at the end of the last century.
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Behind me, purely geographically, there is a mixed army which is notable for oneoutstandingcharacteristic—a creative ebullience of all sorts.
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The oneoutstandingcharacteristicof a regulation is that one has to take it or leave it; one cannot attempt to amend it.
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Here we are surrendering thisoutstandingcharacteristic.
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Perhaps one can be permitted a tinge of doubt whether the composition of the authority will be such as to make the meeting of that expectation itsoutstandingcharacteristic.
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Perhaps theiroutstandingcharacteristicis courage.
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It is quite evident that the older and decaying industries were established by private capital, but theoutstandingcharacteristicis the development of townships and villages on that foundation.
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The second greatoutstandingcharacteristic, the one which distinguishes it through its literature and its art, is the sense of sympathy for and brotherhood with the poor man.
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I am taking a kind of objective view of it, and it appears to me that itsoutstandingcharacteristicis that its problems are never static.
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Oneoutstandingcharacteristicof this group was its commitment to education.
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Theoutstandingcharacteristicof deliberative rhetoric is practicality.
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