adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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In reality, the role of the project team and its contribution has been much more expansive .
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Golden Corral has slightly better steaks and a more expansive selection of food.
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The people are more expansive in their complaining, but their words merely combine elements by now all too familiar.
■ NOUN
gesture
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Theirs was not a relationship of expansive gestures like that.
mood
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He was in an expansive mood , and enjoyed chatting to the sales assistants.
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As noted, the frontier and the West had their own expansive mood .
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Mr. Salmond Given that the Minister is in such expansive mood I will press him on the matter of training.
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Why not go along with Luke's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an expansive selection of food
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an expansive view of the beach
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Our visitors became more expansive after a few beers.
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The new office building represents the company's expansive ambitions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Expansion in output was fuelled by growing external demand and generally expansive domestic economic policies.
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He was in an expansive mood, and enjoyed chatting to the sales assistants.
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In such situations, hopes for a less active, more cautious and realistic, less expansive foreign policy were slim.
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Now their romantic urgings and formal ambitions have come together in an expansive exploration of the universe.
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The 1960s were expansive , golden years for the television networks.
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The house was only single-storey, but expansive in the Moorish style, with serial white arches and terracotta tiles.
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The integration of state and society favoured a benevolent and expansive concept of the role of the state.