FRONTIER


Meaning of FRONTIER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

electronic

The electronic frontier requires its pioneers to be resourceful in defending themselves in the absence of binding rules and regulations.

final

Exercise and fitness has become the final frontier .

internal

I am sceptical about the proposition that minority rights can be protected by redrawing internal frontiers .

military

This tradition persisted even after the dissolution of the military frontier in 1881.

The northern area from Rijeka to Zadar was incorporated into the military frontier , which was under the control of the Habsburgs.

national

In practical terms, business across national frontiers may be conducted in several ways.

Armies would still cross national frontiers and with considerable capacity for doing damage where they fought and trod.

The output of such small-scale producers will not only be sold on local markets but also across national frontiers .

The actual bank deposits do not cross national frontiers in the manner that tourists carry foreign bank notes among their holiday belongings.

Surely the House appreciates that some problems go beyond national frontiers , particularly those affecting pollution and international trade.

In taxonomic botany, for instance, research is carried out in many institutions world-wide, rather than within national frontiers .

Some thoughtful articles aim to make connections, perhaps across national and language frontiers , or between disciplines.

new

The internet revolution has moved east, and Scandinavia is the new frontier .

He is an example of some one who has become lost or disoriented on the new frontier .

Before he was incapacitated, Menelik had won recognition for his conquests and acceptance of his new frontiers .

Something similar may happen soon in the new frontier of cyberspace.

Two new pieces of frontier work are being pioneered.

They are the charts of a new frontier , modern-day versions of the maps made before ships circumnavigated the globe.

The new frontiers were not without their hazards.

Once again there was a sense of purpose, an aura of new frontiers .

northern

Part of the northern frontier of the Roman Empire of Hadrian's Wall.

Some of this money went to pay the states along the northern frontier for lands ceded to the United States.

The situation was very different on the northern frontier .

southern

According to one such report Richard's chief concern in the autumn of 1178 was with his southern frontier .

Lindsey was lost and the Humber restored as Northumbria's southern frontier .

western

Their most remarkable expression is the earthwork which an eighth- century king of Mercia constructed on his western frontier .

Andrew Jackson, the first president from the western frontier , was unjustly accused of bigamy and derided as an unschooled ignoramus.

The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier.

Education i. guardian of ideals Western frontier .

Henry II's next targets were on his western frontiers .

To the settler or trapper or cattleman, the western frontier was both promising and dangerous.

When the country was young, the Western frontier was the Appalachian Mountains.

■ NOUN

area

This increased the importance of exploration and development projects in frontier areas .

In frontier areas they are critical to our ability to win access.

control

These are national quotas and must be removed or harmonised once frontier controls are eliminated.

Several governments, particularly from the larger states, sought co-operation on immigration and frontier controls and also closer police collaboration.

Consequently, frontier controls were necessary to ensure that cross-frontier trade in goods adhered to the various national requirements.

post

The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier.

town

San Vicente del Caguan is a bustling frontier town of 20,000 people.

Nearly all have stemmed from this small, poor village one mile outside the frontier town of Peshawar.

zone

So long as frontier zones of the empire remained insecure, the tsar had to eschew an ambitious foreign policy.

■ VERB

cross

Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before, but emotionally he had crossed a frontier .

Armies would still cross national frontiers and with considerable capacity for doing damage where they fought and trod.

He ignored the great truth - jokes don't cross frontiers .

The nature of the underground drainage can give rise to international problems when streams cross under frontiers .

A Community working for peace - and the planet Pollution crosses frontiers .

The actual bank deposits do not cross national frontiers in the manner that tourists carry foreign bank notes among their holiday belongings.

push

Back then entrepreneurs were pushing out the frontiers of trade.

As for the second one your use of rhyme pushes back the frontiers of english literature.

Their achievement was in pushing back the frontiers of distance running with world records.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He was questioned by soldiers at a frontier post.

Many of the cars crossing the frontier were stopped and searched.

The study of the brain is often described as the next intellectual frontier .

They settled in Ronco, a picturesque village near the Italian frontier .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All of this transcended the frontiers of control and undermined the employers' ability to manage.

Every diplomatic effort was made to get him and his army to retire back over the frontier , but without success.

It marked a return to the general store of frontier days.

Powell, like the mountain men, was compulsively drawn to the frontier .

The dethronement of learning is one of the most exciting intellectual frontiers we are now crossing.

The geographical position of the frontier fluctuated with the fortunes of war.

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