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RELATIONS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups
Synonyms:
dealings; relations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("relations" is a kind of...):
social relation (a relation between living organisms (especially between people))
Context examples:
But where were my friends and relations?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But your whole correspondence and relations with Oberstein are within our knowledge.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“As to the King,” said he, “of course, I am l’ami de famille there; and even with you I can scarce speak freely, as my relations are confidential.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Brief Pain Inventory Short Form (BPI Short Form) Circle the one number that describes how, during the past 24 hours, pain has interfered with your relations with other people.
(BPI Short Form - Pain Interfered with Relations, NCI Thesaurus)
Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Circle the one number that describes how, during the past week, pain has interfered with your relations with other people.
(BPI - Pain Interfered with Relations, NCI Thesaurus)
So much, Mr. Holmes, for my past history and my relations with Mr. Blessington.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the other hand, it's very likely to make my relations with Ruth's family a trifle awkward.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Using established relations between the magnetic activity and X-ray emission of stars, as well as its actual age, researchers determined WASP-18 is about 100 times less active than it should be.
(NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Finds Planet That Makes Star Act Deceptively Old, NASA)
He took leave of his relations at Longbourn with as much solemnity as before; wished his fair cousins health and happiness again, and promised their father another letter of thanks.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
