ordinary person
collocation in Englishmeaningsofordinaryandperson
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ordinary
adjective
uk/ˈɔː.dən.əri/us/ˈɔːr.dən.er.i/
not different or special or unexpected in any ...
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person
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɜː.sən/us/ˈpɝː.sən/
a man, woman, ...
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(Definition ofordinaryandpersonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is the kind of thing in which the evidence of an analyst is not much better than the evidence of anordinaryperson.
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I quote that as another thing that has to be explained to theordinaryperson.
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Theordinarypersonis completely mystified about that.
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As company legislation is fraught with difficulties in any event, there would be even greater difficulty for theordinaryperson.
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But die resulting extensive language revolution caused by broadcasters has given theordinaryperson a national and international voice as never before.
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The intellectual can only express what everyordinarypersonsays, not fight alone against an ocean of false beliefs.
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They do so by introducing emotional forces that overcome a person's ability to control his acts (and would do so for anordinaryperson).
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To this kind ofordinarypersonthe qualities of modesty and common sense that he claims for his own buildings are all but invisible.
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Theordinarypersonhas a very strong intuition that it is true.
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Could it be a broken leg (in anordinaryperson)?
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So, how does theordinaryperson, right now, determine whether she has a conviction, a moral certainty, that is abiding?
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What seems at first sight to be the material trace of theordinarypersonall too often turns out to be the debris of those with power and influence.
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There existed in the twentieth century, as in the sixteenth or seventeenth, a stratum of farmers whose skill and knowledge was beyond that of theordinaryperson.
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Let us begin with anordinaryperson.
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The trend is reasonable and it means that anordinarypersonwould need about four trials of practice frequency to get used to the virtual environment in the experiment.
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We were saving at about double the rate at which theordinarypersonis now saving.
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This term is rather vague, and it is difficult for theordinarypersonto judge what is meant by "the fair market price".
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That shows it would not have been possible for theordinarypersonto have bought at 2.
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