"mean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- From the time of Confucius until the 20th century the death of a parent would commonly mean a three-year mourning period for their child.
- The incest taboo, although it can be anything, most commonly means sisters and brothers, parents and offspring.
- This phrase also applies to living a lavish or abundant lifestyle, hence "You are eating money," which commonly means one is successful and doing well.
- In the ecclesiastical sense of the term, "hierarchy" commonly means the body of persons who exercise authority within a Christian church.
- Until recently people dismissed both ideas as impossible - commonly meaning that they couldn't see how to do them, or would be upset if they could.
- Military expenditure as the name suggests commonly means the expenditure by a country's government on their military forces.
- But it commonly meant boastful or vainglorious, as it did in the hands of the playwright.
- In Australia it commonly means on of two bicentennials.
- Simplex communications, most commonly meaning all communications in one direction only.
- Many acts release a compilation after three albums, which commonly means after only three years of career in the music market.
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