adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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We finally agreed on an experiment we would both regard as definitive .
more
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From a letter of credit standpoint, however, the receipt message can also play a more definitive role.
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A more definitive test involved measuring their energies.
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Tomorrow's consumer price index for December may provide more definitive clues to the Fed's interest rate strategy.
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He'd need to push the lab for a more definitive result.
■ NOUN
agreement
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Now a definitive agreement has been signed, with each founding partner taking an equal stake in the new venture.
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A definitive agreement for shareholders to approve could come by Feb. 22 when Trafalgar House holds its annual meeting.
answer
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While definitive answers may not yet be possible, recent court hearings and interviews with Lee's colleagues have provided new information.
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To ask for definitive answers to such grandiose questions would, of course, be a tall order.
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Clearly, this study can not provide a definitive answer .
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No one can provide definitive answers to these questions.
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None can provide a definitive answer to the question of whom resources should be spent on.
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This fundamental question does not yet have a definitive answer .
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Clearly we can not as yet give a definitive answer to this question.
guide
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Halliwell's Film Guide the definitive guide to the movies. 4.
statement
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I would stress that there is no definitive statement on the timescale.
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The opposition were loyally supporting the Government, but were also pressing for a definitive statement .
study
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A later and quite definitive study conducted by Miller between 1973 and 1978 bore this out.
work
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The Black Book Of Communism is not a definitive work .
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His books may not be the most definitive works on the phenomenon they describe.
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This is not the definitive work of television.
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This became the definitive work of the period.
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Because it will be my definitive work .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Griffin is the author of the definitive travel guide 'France at Your Fingertips'.
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Many people regard it as the definitive interpretation of 'War and Peace'.
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She has written the definitive book on the poet Wordsworth.
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This may be the definitive book on the Scarlatti trial.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A definitive set of grammatical tags does not exist.
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He added that many market watchers had been hoping for some type of agreement or definitive news yesterday.
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His books may not be the most definitive works on the phenomenon they describe.
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However, definitive decisions about such measures must rest with medically qualified personnel.
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However, the design can be a useful, if not a definitive , indicator of a rug's origins.
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None can provide a definitive answer to the question of whom resources should be spent on.
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Suppose, for sake of argument, that this is indeed the definitive legal position.
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The definitive movie on these two men whose courage reshaped a nation remains to be made.