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UK
/ɹˈɛlɪvəns/
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[ US /ˈɹɛɫəvəns/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛɫəvəns/ ]
NOUN
- the relation of something to the matter at hand
How To Use relevance In A Sentence
- What I've generally de-duced is that men in their twenties are ignorant of the relevance of most feminist issues and think feminists are in varying degrees: full of hot air, lesbians, killjoys. Feminist blogs in english » 2008 » July
- In his provocative work, Clichés To Live By And The Death Of The Sixties, Anaxamander O'Flaherty, a necro-ethnolinguist at the University of Altamont, suggests that the expression, "Everything is everything," succumbed to a natural death brought on by such factors as over-utilization, deterioration of relevance, and lack of adaptability to altered states of reality vis-à-vis the American experience. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
- Its perceptual configurations have been thought to have a special relevance to the emergence of formal artistic qualities which cannot be reduced to a measurable aggregate of more elementary constituents.
- I think the term comprehension still has great relevance because it is a reminder that as readers, viewers and web surfers we need to be able to understand, interpret, appreciate and critique what we read, view, hear and even … Literacy News – 162th Edition « News « Literacy News
- There remain on the balance sheet assets with uncertain value and limited relevance to the UK economy. Times, Sunday Times
- Of great relevance to the story is the financial dependence of the university.
- If it does not reject this biased report, it would vitiate itself, it would begin - or re-begin the process of vitiating itself from its own relevance and importance. CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2009
- This is one race in which betting is close to being an irrelevance. Times, Sunday Times
- Educators blame the lack of interest or knowledge of civics on several things, including grade inflation, overemphasis of test scores, and failure to teach the relevance of the Constitution.
- The unique feature of ergonomics is its emphasis on the characteristics of human operators and their relevance to the design of work.