CALIBRE


Meaning of CALIBRE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

high

But in all cases, the native authority of the highest calibre is forgotten, omitted, if not silenced.

May I hope, however, that some of your magazine's future escorts might be of a slightly higher intellectual calibre ?

Centred on the arête are two outstanding climbs of high calibre .

Needless to say, it will tend to be the highest calibre individuals who choose another career.

It's just that there aren't enough of sufficiently high calibre in the party's lower ranks.

Luckily, it happens to one of the highest calibre .

The tax profession has lost not only a practitioner of the highest calibre but also a very good friend.

It is noted for its very high calibre loyalty and involvement in the local community.

right

Only do this where you think there may actually be some one of the right calibre available.

This adds to the importance of investing in the development of managers of the right calibre .

Only then would persons of the right calibre be attracted to serve in it.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But with it all, an indomitable hope of the finest calibre .

In the modern era, players of their calibre would surely have followed the professional trail.

It's just that there aren't enough of sufficiently high calibre in the party's lower ranks.

May I hope, however, that some of your magazine's future escorts might be of a slightly higher intellectual calibre ?

Needless to say, it will tend to be the highest calibre individuals who choose another career.

The latter may well cause the amount and the calibre of the load to alter.

The quality of the work submitted by candidates for the Test has improved, but more in presentation than in intellectual calibre .

What was encouraging this year was that the overall calibre of entries far-outstripped last year's submissions.

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