I. adjective
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■ NOUN
career
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For some people, a composite career can serve as a bridge from one work life to another.
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In other cases, the composite career develops when some one pursues a hobby far enough to turn it into a business.
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We have already discussed one such frame: the composite career .
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Before that, everyone had a composite career , although no one talked about such a commonplace fact.
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Clearly, a composite career is often just a way to make ends meet.
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Only the middle class gave up the composite career , and today even they are returning to it.
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But the motive for following a composite career is often not purely financial.
commodity
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We must also give some consideration to composite commodities .
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Thus the composite commodity of taking part in skiing is larger than the package holiday.
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In the same way as we talk about the composite commodity of sport, we can also refer to the composite price.
image
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The resulting picture on the monitor is called a false-colour composite image .
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On development, the negative and subsequent positive reveal a composite image of the dancer performing in the street.
index
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The composite index rose 1.1 per cent to 411.98, with turnover significantly higher than Friday.
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The Nasdaq composite index lost 1. 10, or 0. 11 %, to 1032. 37.
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Of the 169 companies listed, five make up 85% of the value of the composite index .
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The Nasdaq composite index was up 6. 17 points to 1, 637. 32.
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The Manila composite index rose by 77% in 1991 and by 9% in 1992.
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The Nasdaq composite index was down 4. 14 at 1, 741. 71.
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However, the Nasdaq composite index was up 32. 08 points to 1, 567. 22 at midday.
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The Nasdaq composite index was off 9. 24 points at 1, 732. 88.
material
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The ultimate composite materials capitalise on the inherent strength and lightness of reinforced resins by deploying them in a sandwich construction.
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The method has many advantages for the modelling of the structure of polymers and composite materials .
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It will not normally be used on its own but as a facing or interlayer in composite materials .
picture
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From none of these can the reader derive any composite picture of the Azores.
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In an attempt to do this, Featherstone, for example, develops a useful composite picture of contemporary consumer culture.
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Photobooth Collages, since 1985, Liz Rideal has been using photograph prints to create large composite pictures .
rate
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Mr. Allason I congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend on the abolition of composite rate tax.
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Interest is payable on all claims at a composite rate of 38 percent.
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For example, when the standard rate was 30 percent, the composite rate would be about 25 percent.
sketch
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Berkeley police released a composite sketch of the man witnesses say they saw leaving the neighborhood.
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Police released a composite sketch of him Saturday; in the picture, he is wearing a knit cap.
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The composite sketches were developed from eyewitness descriptions of suspicious-looking people at the scene.
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The police put together a composite sketch.
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All syllabuses show the effect of many influences and are matters of composite authorship.
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For some people, a composite career can serve as a bridge from one work life to another.
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Marble discards are crushed to make the gravel or composite paving stones you see all over the world.
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Nothing spectacular, until you open the large, beautifully-shaped composite cowlings to inspect the engine.
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The composite index rose 1.1 per cent to 411.98, with turnover significantly higher than Friday.
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The incident became the basis for the widely distributed composite drawing of the suspect.
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The Nasdaq composite index was off 9. 48 points at 1, 723. 31.
II. noun
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Several witnesses identified the man in the composite .
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I was a fraud, a composite of traits I felt rightfully belonged to these two.
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The composite is constructed from a graphite cloth which is soaked in a special resin.
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The Nasdaq composite fell 8. 60 to 990. 21, though technology stocks ended the session relatively unchanged.
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The Nasdaq composite lost 8. 60 or 0. 86 %, to 990. 21.
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The Nasdaq composite was led by Cisco, which was up 211 / 16 at 8515 / 16.
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These chitin fibres are embedded in matrix materials, making the wall material like a carbon fibre composite .