adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an indefinite period (= with no fixed end )
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The painting had been loaned to the gallery for an indefinite period.
an indefinite strike (= with no end planned )
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Workers at the processing plant have begun an indefinite strike.
indefinite article
indefinite leave (= leave without a time limit )
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She has gone on indefinite leave, suffering from exhaustion.
indefinite pronoun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
article
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Note the indefinite article - A judicial view, not the judicial view.
future
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Anyway, we're here for the indefinite future and I've been given the job of furnishing the hotel.
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The Creation is followed by an indefinite future within historical time.
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With recycling and an adequate source of power, this immense population is sustainable into the indefinite future .
leave
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Surrogate twins of a homosexual couple have been granted indefinite leave to stay in Britain.
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As the Gay situation unraveled, reserve guard Charlie Taylor was granted an indefinite leave of absence for personal reasons.
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The prospect of indefinite leave was anathema.
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Before leaving , the teacher had requested an indefinite leave of absence, but the school board had denied his request.
number
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The iterated game is simply the ordinary game repeated an indefinite number of times with the same players.
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A literary text is compatible with an indefinite number of contexts yielding indefinitely many readings and re-readings.
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However, it will not do so an indefinite number of times.
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An object can be described from an indefinite number of different perspectives.
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Furthermore, expectation of an indefinite number of future meetings means that deception or conflict are much less attractive options.
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Hence it is transmitted vertically to the next generation and then, vertically again, to an indefinite number of future generations.
period
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Unlike many similar discounts which sprang up after Abbey National had made its move, this one is for an indefinite period .
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To avoid a league suspension, Favre was prohibited from drinking beer for an indefinite period .
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And it will provide free and unlimited local calls for an indefinite period .
strike
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The unions are balloting 24,000 members in four companies next week on an indefinite strike .
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On the following day doctors and medical personnel announced an indefinite strike , which was promptly declared illegal.
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The five unions who called the indefinite strike said up to 80 percent of postal workers stayed away from work in some areas.
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After a ballot earlier this year, the 3,000-strong workforce had planned to take indefinite strike action from August 21.
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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
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Our plans for traveling are deliberately indefinite .
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The refugees will be housed and fed here for an indefinite period.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before leaving, the teacher had requested an indefinite leave of absence, but the school board had denied his request.
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However, tenured teachers do not have a right either to a particular position in a school district or to indefinite employment.
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The deferral is indefinite if reinvestment is in non-depreciating assets such as freehold land and buildings.
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The unions are balloting 24,000 members in four companies next week on an indefinite strike.
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To avoid a league suspension, Favre was prohibited from drinking beer for an indefinite period.
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Two somewhat indefinite entries under Letcombe Basset specify only Hampshire.
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You have one that would make it clearly indefinite and one that would make it clearly definite.