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Meaning relative meaning
What does relative mean?
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Synonyms relative synonyms
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Topics relative topics
What do people use relative to talk about?
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What words refer to a member of your family or larger kin group?
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What general words refer to one time in relation to another time?
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What words indicate that two things or situations are connected somehow?be connected (with) be related (to) be linked (with) be associated (with) there is a link between there is a connection between be bound up with go hand in hand relate relation be a relationship between relationship have something to do with be something to do with be intertwined tied pertain be relative to
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Simple sentences
He's a distant relative of mine.
We have a saying to the effect that a good neighbor is better than a faraway relative.
Listen to the facts relative to the issue.
An orphan at three, he was brought up by a distant relative.
I have a new relative: my sister got married, so now I have a brother-in-law.
One of the greatest hurdles facing middle school students learning English is relative pronouns.
A close neighbor is better than a distant relative.
The relative humidity is the difference between the maximum humidity and the actual humidity expressed in percentages.
Tom is a close relative of mine.
According to Einstein, everything is relative.
A subject is missing in the relative clause.
Tom is a distant relative of mine.
This is relative and ambiguous.
Everything is relative.
Tom is a distant relative of Mary's.
Wealth is relative.
Everything in life is relative.
Tom is convinced that he's a relative of mine.
Tom is my relative.
Tom is a relative of mine.
Is Tom a relative of yours?
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Do you have a relative in the mine?
All right. I'm a relative and I'm here.
It was unwise to replace a professional sailor like Mr Fryer with a relative novice?
You're his only living relative.
The complainant is a relative of the late Martin Semple.
In the interest of my client, the only other living relative. of the late Martin W. SempIe. we cannot permit a fortune so huge to be dissipated by a person. whose incompetency and abnormality we shall prove beyond any reasonable doubt.
Young man, have you no respect for a dead relative?
No, not exactly. but I had a relative in the Civil War who didn't fight at all. He was a slacker.
Uncle Sam. Glad to see you. Any relative of Teddy's is a friend of mine.
She could be a relative.
I don't think so, thank you. Looking for some man, I suppose. Must be a relative.
I'm a relative.
He pretends to be a relative of yours.
Because of my visitors and of my servants I dislike to see in my salon. a relative of my wife dressed like that.
And that depends on the speed of the car relative to you.
You aren't a relative or employee of the defendant?
You're not a relative or employee of the defendant?
He's a relative of Mr. Charles.
A relative of the late Martin Semple.
In the interest of my client, relative of the late Martin W Semple, we cannot permit the fortune to be dissipated by a person whose incompetency and abnormality we shall prove beyond doubt.
Mrs. MacTavish is Mr. Morris's wife's relative.
Evidently devoted to her relative.
I merely wish to point out that a lie is relative. as Is truth.
No, not exactly. but I had a relative in the Civil War who didn't fight at all.
Was he a relative of yours, sir?
After days of pointless rock climbing we were able to hunt down the unknown animal and liken it to its closest relative, the strange Tahr of the Western Himalaya.
You're my nephew, the only relative that I have left.
She's a distant relative of mine.
Are you a relative? - Then I have just as much right. to speak to her as you have, old boy.
It does not conform with our dignity to have a relative tapping wheels.
I'll take the box and conduct you myself to er. your relative.
If only you had some relative to go with you.
Mark Pyncheon, a distant relative, died a fortnight ago.
As he is your relative, he can inquire more closely into this than I can.
Or by some older relative.
The lady who brought the beer yesterday is in fact. a distant relative of mine, is this information enough?
But she said, ah, she's a relative.
But he was rich and he was the only relative I had in the world. All right, let's have look at you.
News and current affairs
Many other rich countries' debt levels are also uncomfortably close to 150-year highs, despite relative peace in much of the world.
Indeed, it is our duty, and the very basis of any successful civilization, that important decisions are made only after scrutinizing all relevant information and weighing the relative merits of every position.
When 52 people were killed in a suicide bombing on the London Underground the following year, the British, too, reacted with relative calm, having lived through years of Irish terrorist violence in the 1970's.
His relative discretion in the Middle East has allowed people there to act for themselves.
But there were major differences in the relative power resources of imperial Britain and contemporary America.
Others define hegemony as the ability to set the rules of the international system; but precisely how much influence over this process a hegemon must have, relative to other powers, remains unclear.
But there are major differences in the relative power resources of imperial Britain and contemporary America.
For example, federal spending relative to GDP fell by five percentage points from the mid-1980's to the late 1990's in the US, and by an even larger margin in recent decades in Canada - that is, through periods of strong economic growth.
Easy access to guns in the US leads to horrific murder rates relative to other highly educated and wealthy societies.
It would enhance US economic competitiveness, especially relative to Europe, given the lower costs involved in the extraction of shale gas.
Finally, it would increase the relative vulnerability of America's main strategic rival, China, which is becoming increasingly dependent on Middle East energy supplies.
But, by the time of the Iraq war, conditions had changed: the US had grown so powerful relative to the rest of the world that the lack of reciprocity became an intense source of irritation even to America's closest allies.
It would be hard to imagine Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan accepting a similar relative position.
One challenge is the need to arrest the erosion of America's relative power, which in turn requires comprehensive domestic renewal, including fiscal consolidation.
This is a recipe for continuing political problems, as the Greeks would always consider the interest rate too high, while Germany would consider it too low (at least relative to market rates).
And Germany is slowly acquiescing to a prudent relative expansion in domestic demand.
There was also Gulnaz, a young woman who was jailed for adultery after being raped by a relative (she was recently released after a presidential pardon, but may be forced to marry her attacker).
Coal has historically played a crucial role as a source of energy worldwide, and has several important advantages over other fossil fuels. First is its relative abundance.
That, in turn, requires making Greek goods and services more competitive relative to those of the country's trading partners.
And that has happened precisely because wages have been rising faster in Greece, relative to productivity growth, than in other eurozone countries.
Great Britain and France will resist being replaced by a single EU seat, while making Germany a permanent member would only exacerbate the problem of Europe's relative over-representation.
For example, in the seventeenth century, the Netherlands flourished domestically but declined in relative power as other states grew in strength.
Far from pushing through structural reforms, they let domestic wages and costs rip, reducing their competitiveness relative to Europe's better-run economies.