I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lower/inferior status
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In parts of the world, women still have inferior status.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
vastly
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Jufti knot Vastly inferior knot produced by tying the pile yarn around four or more warp strands, rather than the customary two.
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We find him in a disgusting attitude of respect towards predecessors whose intellect is vastly inferior to his own.
■ NOUN
court
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Therefore, a tribunal or inferior court acts ultravires if it reaches its conclusion on a basis erroneous under the general law.
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The dotted line in each diagram separates the superior courts from the inferior courts.
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A barrister may appear in any court , whereas a solicitor's rights of audience are currently limited to the inferior courts.
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The inferior courts Those courts which do not form part of the Supreme Court of Judicature are collectively known as inferior courts.
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Traditionally they were applied to judicial decisions taken by inferior courts and tribunals.
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Secondly, inferior courts were however subject to a different test.
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It would depend upon the construction of the statute whether Parliament intended questions of law to be left to an inferior court .
position
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In more individual sports, such as tennis and golf, professionals hold respected but wholly separate, socially inferior positions .
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Enduring procreative love becomes difficult, because it places the man in an impossibly inferior position .
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Timman blundered in a slightly inferior position and lost material.
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The suggestion is in fact a good symbolization of the inferior position of women.
quality
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Non-genuine parts may look the same, but they can cause problems of poor fit, inferior quality and limited durability.
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Apart from being almost impossible to cut, second hand shop windows are usually of inferior quality .
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He says it could mean treatment is of an inferior quality in hospitals outside the county.
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Finally a heavy press crushes out the remainder of the must, but this is of an inferior quality .
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The shortage never materialised and the champagne was found to be of an inferior quality .
status
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Both were heavy red-wine drinkers, always bloated, and each jealously guarded his own inferior status .
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The secrecy which, in my adolescence, surrounded menstruation was an indication of the inferior status of women in that society.
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Gandhi rejects outright claims made concerning the superior or inferior status of religions.
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The narrow door, beyond Upwood's, proclaimed its inferior status with no name at all.
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He is also becoming more impatient with his traditionally inferior status .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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inferior health-care facilities
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California oil is a heavier and inferior grade of oil, compared with other crude oils.
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Consumers are tired of paying a high price for what is an increasingly inferior service.
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Consumers buy foreign goods because they believe that British made goods are inferior .
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I want the best -- I don't want some inferior model that's going to break down the first time I use it.
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Old Mr Carter was convinced that women doctors were inferior to men.
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Shockingly, they still perceive women as inferior .
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Their furniture is certainly cheaper, but it's of inferior quality.
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White bread is generally inferior in nutritional value.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And far inferior is mere action to action performed with this evenness of mind.
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But also added that he easily became impatient with any intellect inferior to his own.
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Does this imply that inferior performance can be expected in these structures?
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Leiser discovered, however, that because the embassy had an inferior instrument, the pianist practiced at the local conservatory.
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The idea that acts of love are inferior to principled acts is a deep-rooted philosophical tradition.
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The plan was a daring one, for it would leave an inferior force in the Richmond defenses.
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What Engels stresses is that women were not inferior .
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But people decided it was only inferiors who ate alpaca meat.
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It constitutes a gesture of respect not to make social inferiors conscious of their inferiority.
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It hides from the inferiors the sources of domination and the process by which this has come about.
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One is killed, or lives as a cringing inferior who may never have cubs of her own.