INDEFINITE


Meaning of INDEFINITE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an indefinite period (= with no fixed end )

The painting had been loaned to the gallery for an indefinite period.

an indefinite strike (= with no end planned )

Workers at the processing plant have begun an indefinite strike.

indefinite article

indefinite leave (= leave without a time limit )

She has gone on indefinite leave, suffering from exhaustion.

indefinite pronoun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

article

Note the indefinite article - A judicial view, not the judicial view.

future

Anyway, we're here for the indefinite future and I've been given the job of furnishing the hotel.

The Creation is followed by an indefinite future within historical time.

With recycling and an adequate source of power, this immense population is sustainable into the indefinite future .

leave

Surrogate twins of a homosexual couple have been granted indefinite leave to stay in Britain.

As the Gay situation unraveled, reserve guard Charlie Taylor was granted an indefinite leave of absence for personal reasons.

The prospect of indefinite leave was anathema.

Before leaving , the teacher had requested an indefinite leave of absence, but the school board had denied his request.

number

The iterated game is simply the ordinary game repeated an indefinite number of times with the same players.

A literary text is compatible with an indefinite number of contexts yielding indefinitely many readings and re-readings.

However, it will not do so an indefinite number of times.

An object can be described from an indefinite number of different perspectives.

Furthermore, expectation of an indefinite number of future meetings means that deception or conflict are much less attractive options.

Hence it is transmitted vertically to the next generation and then, vertically again, to an indefinite number of future generations.

period

Unlike many similar discounts which sprang up after Abbey National had made its move, this one is for an indefinite period .

To avoid a league suspension, Favre was prohibited from drinking beer for an indefinite period .

And it will provide free and unlimited local calls for an indefinite period .

strike

The unions are balloting 24,000 members in four companies next week on an indefinite strike .

On the following day doctors and medical personnel announced an indefinite strike , which was promptly declared illegal.

The five unions who called the indefinite strike said up to 80 percent of postal workers stayed away from work in some areas.

After a ballot earlier this year, the 3,000-strong workforce had planned to take indefinite strike action from August 21.

Strikes An national and indefinite strike of bank workers began on Sept. 12 for pay increases of up to 297 percent.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Our plans for traveling are deliberately indefinite .

The refugees will be housed and fed here for an indefinite period.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Before leaving, the teacher had requested an indefinite leave of absence, but the school board had denied his request.

However, tenured teachers do not have a right either to a particular position in a school district or to indefinite employment.

The deferral is indefinite if reinvestment is in non-depreciating assets such as freehold land and buildings.

The unions are balloting 24,000 members in four companies next week on an indefinite strike.

To avoid a league suspension, Favre was prohibited from drinking beer for an indefinite period.

Two somewhat indefinite entries under Letcombe Basset specify only Hampshire.

You have one that would make it clearly indefinite and one that would make it clearly definite.

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