fixed date
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffixedanddate
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fixed
adjective
uk/fɪkst/us/fɪkst/
arranged or decided already and not able to ...
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date
noun[C]
uk/deɪt/us/deɪt/
a numbered day in a month, often given with a combination of the name of the day, the month, and ...
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(Definition offixedanddatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffixed date
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Data were censored in two ways : at afixeddateor at random dates.
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When censoring at afixeddatewas applied to the data, the situation changed.
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Censoring at afixeddatemimics censoring at the end of the experiment.
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In order to calculate standard error for the standardized rates, patient's ages at afixeddatewere necessary as patient may have more than one hospital discharge in a year.
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This combined effect allowed for an indirect adjustment of lactation stage for milking speed, which was measured at afixeddatefor all animals each year.
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Five scenarios of censoring were considered : uncensored data, 20 % and 40 % of censored records at random dates, and 20 % and 40 % of censored records at afixeddate.
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I think it would be absolutely fatal to try to promise anything in the nature of afixeddate.
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I can assure him that the date is not afixeddate, in the sense of negotiating that matter.
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At present, parents do not cease to be under obligation to provide efficient education until thefixeddatenext following the child's fifteenth birthday.
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The effect of the clause will be that if a pupil's fifteenth birthday falls on afixeddatehe can leave school on that date.
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He did not in any way mean to imply that we should start work in two years time or at anyfixeddatewhatever.
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That brings me to the second argument in favour of thefixeddate, which is the impossibility of carrying on efficiently after 1948.
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I do not like to commit myself to anyfixeddatefor achieving an object so difficult and distant.
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But, if he should possibly be right, the case for writing in afixeddate, which it what we are discussing, is very much weakened.
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Nothing so concentrates the mind of democracy in a period of major constitutional change as afixeddate.
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That is why it is important and proper that we should not have afixeddate.
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I have no confidence that they will improve their performance in any way if one removes the compulsitor of afixeddate.
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These proposals and the firm commitment to all-party negotiations by afixeddatewill remove any lingering thread of obfuscation and pretence about that.
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It is not uncommon for countries withfixeddateelections to make such provision.
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The money saved by this measure is being used to make disablement benefit—the scheme's long-term benefit—available from afixeddatein all cases.
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