frank admission

collocation in English

meaningsoffrankandadmission

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frank
adjective
uk
/fræŋk/us
/fræŋk/
honest, sincere, and telling the truth, even when this might be awkward or make other ...
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admission
noun
uk
/ədˈmɪʃ.ən/us
/ədˈmɪʃ.ən/
the act of agreeing that something is true, ...
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(Definition offrankandadmissionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Here is afrankadmissionthat the outcome of interest, not the purported cause, is driving the author's analysis.
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Instead of afrankadmissionof failure, he has smugly tried to justify his actions since he has been in his present office.
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It is true that we have thefrankadmissionthat this is an experiment which must be extended.
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I will, however, mention a number of the ideas being examined, with thefrankadmissionthat some may turn out to be non-starters.
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That is afrankadmissionby the civil servant that the people who register under this order will be registering themselves as spivs and drones.
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What we are looking for tonight is afrankadmissionthat volunteers were recruited on a fraudulent basis and an explanation why.
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Secondly, there has yet to be afrankadmission—perhaps tonight will be the occasion—that for many years, volunteers were recruited on the basis of deception.
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I think it is only fair and just to say and to make thatfrankadmission.
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That was a veryfrankadmissionand is something of which we should take note.
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That seems an extremelyfrankadmissionby the committee, speaking unanimously.
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It is afrankadmissionof the problem of the iron and steel trade.
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First, there should be afrankadmissionof the seriousness of the problem, and no glossing over it.
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There was a quitefrankadmissionthat the nationalists would be happy to go back to the position that obtained in 1603.
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That is afrankadmissionof the situation.
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The mere existence of a great many safeguards is afrankadmissionby all of us.
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That was afrankadmissionby someone who told us that he had been born into the building industry.
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Let us have afrankadmissionthat this is part of a process.
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Can we have afrankadmissionof that fact?
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I find thatfrankadmissionthat certain gangmasters and their gangs can operate outside the law to be breathtaking.
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That was a fairlyfrankadmission.
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