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extension

The space that something occupies. Extension is the process of making something longer. An extension is the time or part of something that was added to make it longer. She had extensions put in her hair and now she has long hair. He couldn't pay in May so the bank gave him an extension until July. An extension is the operation of pulling the two ends of a broken bone to bring the broken pieces into the same straight line. Extension is the act of moving an arm, leg, finger, etc. so that it is straight.

extension

a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt they applied for an extension of the loan act of expanding in scope; making more widely available extension of the program to all in need (= propagation) the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line (= filename extension) a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename most applications provide extensions for the files they create most BASIC files use the filename extension .BAS amount or degree or range to which something extends the wire has an extension of 50 feet the ability to raise the working leg high in the air the dancer was praised for her uncanny extension good extension comes from a combination of training and native ability (= elongation) an addition to the length of something (= annex) an addition that extends a main building the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to the extension of 'satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos

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Simple sentences

The extension of the summer vacation delighted the children.
They built an extension to the office.
I don't know how to open files with the.art extension.
What is the file extension?
What's the file extension?
This extension cord is too short.
An extension is currently under construction.
Extension 45, please.
I'm not sure of the name, but the extension is 211.

Movie subtitles

It's extension school.
So, you're busting my balls about an intro class at an extension school?
You've been listening on the extension again! Of course.
What's an extension for?
Your Honor, I think this extension of time is unreasonable.
Get on the extension and take down every word.
Extension 558, please.
Tell Mary to get on the extension.
Mother's on the extension.
I'm gonna use the extension.
Cora, bring the extension phone, will you?
As I understand it, Mr. Stevenson saw Mr. Morano. but his request for an extension was most heartlessly refused.
Like someone lifted the receiver from the extension downstairs.
You can take the new extension course, the one they passed last May.
You've been listening on the extension again!
Other phone? That charming little instrument is not an extension?
I'll bet that Stephen thinks it's an extension.
Your Honour, I think this extension is unreasonable.
That extension is busy. Will you wait?
This telephone is there, - is there an extension in there?
Wait a minute. I want to talk to both of you. Tell Mary to get on the extension.
Excuse me. I'm gonna use the extension.
We'd lose the New Mexico extension. The Wells, Fargo contract too.
Your Honor, I think this extension of time is unreasonable. I move the court set an earlier date for the examination.
There was no extension to the dance last night.
Did I say there was an extension?
When you get him, call me at extension 381.
I came here for one purpose - to make sure T.C. Got a 90-day extension on his mortgage.
You can take the new extension course,the one they passed last May.
You want us to have an extension?
Extension, yes, please!

News and current affairs

But, beyond slogans, there is an underlying fault line between those who have the cultural capacity to embrace change and those who resist it by adhering to traditional ideas about how one's life and, by extension, society, should be organized.
Indeed, nuclear options should not be considered as an extension of conventional options.
Future water policy should no longer be seen as an extension of current policy, but rather as a new opportunity.
To Russia's officer corps, all opponents are ipso facto the army's enemies and, by extension, enemies of Russia.
That way, formal haircuts on the face value of debt can be avoided via new bonds that include only a maturity extension and an interest-rate cap that is set below today's unsustainable market rates.
American officials have traditionally viewed the World Bank as an extension of United States foreign policy and commercial interests.
Reprogenetics can be understood as an extension of parents' fundamental motivation and desire: to protect their children and give them all possible advantages in life.
The cells created through cloning would be an extension of the patient: a means to treat him with cells generated by his own body.
Kennan was right: the dysfunctional features of Soviet system, and its over-extension internationally, would lead to its demise.
In a sense, sexual selection is the psychological extension of natural selection.
It invites us to see a big part of the Islamic world as a natural extension of Nazism.
So the US now actively supports the extension of democracy throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds, not simply for humanitarian reasons, or for theoretical reasons, but from self-interest.
This increased assistance should emerge from an extension or re-focusing of national development cooperation programs.
Beyond the extension of these twentieth-century technologies, we can also anticipate a new set of transformational industries - as yet nameless - as we advance into the new millennium.
Three levers could be used to reach this goal: adjustment in nominal wages, extension of working time, and a reduction in social-security contributions (compensated for by an increase in value-added tax).
Obama wants to expand federal command-and-control regulation further (though the courts have stopped his extension of some regulatory powers).
Encouraging banks to turn loans kept on their books into securities also helped reduce the overall level of caution in the extension of credit.
First, President Bush and his senior aides insist that the coming Iraq war is an extension of the military campaign against terrorism.
It has led to a dangerous extension of executive powers, tarnished our adherence to universal human rights, and inhibited the critical process that is at the heart of an open society.
The third false lesson is that if we could only maintain confidence in the financial system (and by extension the wider economic system), the system itself could be trusted to survive and prosper.
These encounters were an extension of the climate of the Prague Spring.

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