DEFINITIVE


Meaning of DEFINITIVE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

as

We finally agreed on an experiment we would both regard as definitive .

more

From a letter of credit standpoint, however, the receipt message can also play a more definitive role.

A more definitive test involved measuring their energies.

Tomorrow's consumer price index for December may provide more definitive clues to the Fed's interest rate strategy.

He'd need to push the lab for a more definitive result.

■ NOUN

agreement

Now a definitive agreement has been signed, with each founding partner taking an equal stake in the new venture.

A definitive agreement for shareholders to approve could come by Feb. 22 when Trafalgar House holds its annual meeting.

answer

While definitive answers may not yet be possible, recent court hearings and interviews with Lee's colleagues have provided new information.

To ask for definitive answers to such grandiose questions would, of course, be a tall order.

Clearly, this study can not provide a definitive answer .

No one can provide definitive answers to these questions.

None can provide a definitive answer to the question of whom resources should be spent on.

This fundamental question does not yet have a definitive answer .

Clearly we can not as yet give a definitive answer to this question.

guide

Halliwell's Film Guide the definitive guide to the movies. 4.

statement

I would stress that there is no definitive statement on the timescale.

The opposition were loyally supporting the Government, but were also pressing for a definitive statement .

study

A later and quite definitive study conducted by Miller between 1973 and 1978 bore this out.

work

The Black Book Of Communism is not a definitive work .

His books may not be the most definitive works on the phenomenon they describe.

This is not the definitive work of television.

This became the definitive work of the period.

Because it will be my definitive work .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Griffin is the author of the definitive travel guide 'France at Your Fingertips'.

Many people regard it as the definitive interpretation of 'War and Peace'.

She has written the definitive book on the poet Wordsworth.

This may be the definitive book on the Scarlatti trial.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A definitive set of grammatical tags does not exist.

He added that many market watchers had been hoping for some type of agreement or definitive news yesterday.

His books may not be the most definitive works on the phenomenon they describe.

However, definitive decisions about such measures must rest with medically qualified personnel.

However, the design can be a useful, if not a definitive , indicator of a rug's origins.

None can provide a definitive answer to the question of whom resources should be spent on.

Suppose, for sake of argument, that this is indeed the definitive legal position.

The definitive movie on these two men whose courage reshaped a nation remains to be made.

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