adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a traditional ceremony
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The tribe still practise many of their traditional ceremonies.
a traditional Christmas
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Mum likes to have a traditional Christmas for all the family.
a traditional custom
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The children learn about traditional customs, crafts, music, and dance.
a traditional dance
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The drum is often used in Africa to accompany traditional dances.
a traditional industry (= an industry that has been in a particular area for a long time )
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The shipyards, the traditional industry in the north east, had closed.
a traditional wedding (= at a church, with the bride wearing a white dress )
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I wanted a more traditional wedding.
a traditional/ancient craft
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The Navajo Indians sell their jewellery and other traditional crafts.
a traditional/conservative approach
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This is different from the traditional approach to high school teaching.
a traditional/folk remedy
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Fish oil has been used as a folk remedy since the eighteenth century.
an old/traditional enemy (= one you have had a long time )
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In 1548, Scotland moved towards an alliance with her traditional enemy, England.
an old/traditional stereotype
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Many people still believe that old stereotype.
conventional/traditional morality
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a lack of concern for conventional morality
sb’s traditional role (= one based on ideas that have existed for a long time, without changing )
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Some women are happy with their traditional role as carers.
the traditional image of sth
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They want to improve the traditional image of English food.
the traditional method (= the usual method )
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Farmers are being encouraged to return to more traditional methods of farming.
the traditional/classic mould (= the usual way )
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He was not a conservative in the traditional mould.
traditional cooking
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Traditional Asian cooking uses a lot of oil.
traditional medicine (= medical treatments that were used before modern medicine )
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The plant was used in traditional medicine for the treatment of stomach problems.
traditional values
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He called for a return to traditional values.
traditional way of life
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The tribe’s traditional way of life is under threat.
traditional
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traditional views about women
traditional
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Our new range of furniture has a traditional design.
traditional/ancient culture
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The people have a traditional culture which has hardly changed in 500 years.
traditional/modern style
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The rooms are furnished in a modern style.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Only those who can afford to ignore these constraints feel capable of exercising a choice to retain a more traditional agricultural landscape.
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But the advantages of getting weather on-line instead of through more traditional means are just as clear.
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It's more traditional and very smart.
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Develop performance-based admissions standards in addition to, or in place of, more traditional entrance requirements.
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The new variety was a carefully edited version of a more traditional and informal entertainment.
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In Ohio, Sinclair Community College sponsors a more traditional tech-prep program that also includes an extensive work-based learning component.
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He turned instead to a more traditional style rooted in his response to landscape.
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The Dante Drawings are more traditional in fabrication, the images being rubbed-off transfers from newspaper and magazine prints.
■ NOUN
approach
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The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience.
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In part, our failure had to do with our traditional approach to new product development.
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Broadly, two approaches can be discussed: the traditional approach and the direct cost approach.
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And the work represented varies, from traditional approaches to organic abstractions.
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One traditional approach to assessment is stereotypical labelling by practitioners.
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The primary differences between these new approaches to measurement and traditional approaches to measurement are summarized in Table 3-I.
family
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This week's report from the General Household Survey shows that the decline in traditional family life is accelerating.
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Increasing mobility and various social changes have made the traditional family an unreliable source of old-age support.
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Pirandello was much praised for his insight into the stifling dynamic of the traditional family .
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Information about the total student body revealed that dissolution of the traditional family is not uncommon.
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The Hindu traditional family has to live with this paradox.
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The bulk of the decline in traditional families came between 1970 and 1980, with smaller decreases since then.
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Beautifully decorated inside and out, the Maria offers a good standard of accommodation and traditional family hospitality at a reasonable price.
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They all consider themselves to be committed Christians and for the most part would uphold traditional family values.
form
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I am particularly pleased that the traditional form of golf, matchplay, should be the beneficiary of this new-found enthusiasm.
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But the difference really shows in the deliberate attempt to abandon traditional forms of school discipline.
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This, in traditional form , is a treacly brown colour and lends a definite antique air to what you are polishing.
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Does it de-authorize traditional forms of community?
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However, most of the research has relied upon a narrow and traditional form of grammar teaching.
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Artists who try to re-invent painting while remaining basically within the traditional form of picture plane and support structure.
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As with anorexia, the condition tends to recur after traditional forms of hospital treatment in medical or psychiatric units.
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Although nowadays they rely on less traditional forms of communication.
medicine
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But for the present, crystal users recommend using their treatment to complement, rather than replace, traditional medicine .
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He is among a growing minority of physicians combining the standard care of traditional medicine with certain nontraditional treatments and preventive measures.
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Much of conventional medicine has its roots in traditional medicine.
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Large areas of conventional medicine thus represent particular aspects of traditional medicine systematically developed and extended.
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Also he knows a lot about traditional medicines , which, by the way, I believe in one hundred per cent.
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Prevention also plays a central role in traditional medicine with many different practices and prohibitions being part of people's daily life.
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Any genuinely popular and empowering health system could not, therefore, ignore or bypass traditional medicine .
method
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Cast using traditional methods , the bells have the names of faithful parishioners inscribed on them.
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Most have relied upon traditional methods for analyzing jobs, by breaking them down into long lists of discrete skills.
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The repayment mortgage is the traditional method of arranging a mortgage where capital is repaid by level monthly instalments together with interest.
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Traditional producers proudly maintain their commitment to traditional methods and whole hops.
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Viewpoints such as these are challenged by teachers who employ more traditional methods .
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Accumulated research over many years has shown that these traditional methods are not particularly effective.
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We were challenging all the traditional methods of testing for poisons.
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The Conservatives, on the other hand, appeared still to accept traditional methods of selection.
role
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The New Man rejects traditional roles of parenthood and likes to play a part in decision-making.
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Why should women value their traditional roles as important when society assigns theta little value?
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Discontent with the traditional role of housewife is seen as a middle-class prerogative.
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In times of crisis, we slip safely into traditional roles .
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Yet these organizations bring women out of the family in ways that do not fundamentally challenge their traditional roles .
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Men appear to be no more willing to support women in their traditional roles than women are to assume them.
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Following the military coup in February 1991, foreign policy reverted to a more traditional role .
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Melanie and Jonathan have fallen into traditional roles without really knowing how it happened. at least on her part.
society
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Bourdieu's second criticism of Lévi-Strauss is that he misses the very specific nature of the exercise of power in traditional societies .
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In traditional societies girl children are regarded as investments on which there is no return.
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Lévi-Strauss misses all this by reading power into structures even in traditional society .
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Families in traditional societies have such a contract.
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In this, modernized societies quite straightforwardly have more highly differentiated social structures than do traditional societies.
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It has demonstrated that rapid change is possible in traditional societies if there is an incentive for it.
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If subjects exercise symbolic violence in traditional societies , fields or structures produce symbolic goods and hence exercise symbolic violence in modernity.
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Only 50 years ago, it was a largely rural, traditional society .
style
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The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have double glazing.
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Separate from these groups was the large mass of youth whose clothes were chain store versions of traditional styles .
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Rich and imposing, here the features are grand, and the fine, traditional style impressive.
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Valldemosa A small traditional style village which was the source of inspiration for some of Chopin's most romantic compositions.
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The pension is recently built, but is finished off in the traditional style .
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Julius Caesar favoured a traditional style of portrait, but used his image in a regal manner that traditionalists found offensive.
value
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Like the patriotic portraits, these embodied traditional values .
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State policy will also be used to preserve traditional values , especially regarding family life, religion and culture.
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The Leisure 220 embodies this reputation with a mixture of modern styling and traditional values of expert craftsmanship and quality control.
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In sum, conservatism attempts to prevent or slow the transition away from a society based on traditional values and social hierarchy.
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It seems, too, that traditional values that prescribe a life of domesticity are weakening.
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The philosophical importance thus attached to the individual coincided with abandonment of traditional values .
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The far right objects that the tests encourage children to criticise traditional values .
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It had the advantage of iconoclasm, a pleasing shock-effect which derives from an adolescent sense of mocking traditional values .
view
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The traditional view was that the interests of the company meant the interests of the shareholders.
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She raged against their ingrained fear of life and their traditional views .
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The traditional view of a trust is that it was enforceable only in personam, that is against the trustee.
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The traditional view is that the ideal time is somewhere between one and two years before you are due to retire.
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Of course, Alexander would not in the slightest deny the more traditional view .
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Others have persisted in a more traditional view that language learning is essentially the same as the learning of grammar.
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This is the traditional view of most constitutional lawyers.
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According to traditional views this takes place in the next der of visual areas.
way
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The traditional way of doing this was through war.
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Clearly, before about 1880, Degas rendered all the fast equestrian positions in the already outmoded traditional way .
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The traditional way of undertaking market research is through using questionnaires but there are difficulties in gathering information by this method.
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As modernization has spread throughout the world, modern attitudes have displaced traditional ways of thinking about what is important in life.
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Their traditional ways of raising cash are too expensive: big firms can save millions by borrowing in New York or London.
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Some sectors, moreover, lagged behind completely, by force of circumstances or on account of reluctance to abandon traditional ways .
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Feminist psychologists usually interpret the value of socially-oriented study in a traditional way , by assimilating it to psychology's scientific project.
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Drinking ginger tea and cinnamon tea are traditional ways of keeping healthy in the winter, he says.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(the) conventional/received/traditional etc wisdom
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Clear-thinking organizations rely on cost justification to reveal these truths, even if they run counter to current plans and conventional wisdom .
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Evidence introduced to bolster orthodoxy in one field frequently carried unforeseen implications for conventional wisdom in another.
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He set out a scenario which ran against the conventional wisdom at the time.
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Nothing is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom than the cliche that economic life is endlessly and inherently uncertain.
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That is all as it should be: but there are some dangers in conventional wisdom .
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This pre-eminently is an occasion when we would expect the conventional wisdom to lose touch with the reality.
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Under the stress of circumstance, the conventional wisdom is rejected.
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We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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traditional ideas about education
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A group of children will perform traditional dances.
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Having turkey is traditional at Thanksgiving.
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His critics objected to the way he broke many of the traditional rules of art.
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In the US it is traditional to dress up in costumes on Halloween.
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Kumar gave the traditional Hindu greeting.
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Many traditional teachers still think of computers as useless toys.
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the traditional idea that a woman's place is in the home
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The dancers were wearing traditional African costume.
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The local people still use traditional farming methods which have been used for hundreds of years.
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The restaurant offers a wide range of traditional French food.
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Tom went to a very traditional boys' school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Buck-passing is the traditional reaction to political failure among partisans concerned about the future of their own causes and careers.
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Celebrate cheese with this trio of fine-flavoured traditional soft cheeses.
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Here the opposite of traditional is not conforming.
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The acrylic is not effective to use in the traditional opaque sense, it must be treated as a watercolour.
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The more traditional cross symbolised fulfilment; but fulfilment implied a span of existence transcending the grave.
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The shift of power, ironically, is a throwback to the traditional House power structure.
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This was the traditional Prussian strategy.