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modern equivalent

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meanings of modernand equivalent


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modern
adjective
uk /ˈmɒd.ən/ us /ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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equivalent
noun[C usually singular]
uk /ɪˈkwɪv.əl.ənt/ us /ɪˈkwɪv.əl.ənt/
something that has the same amount, value, purpose, qualities, etc. as ...
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Examples of modern equivalent


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The modernequivalent is presidential government.
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We are today talking about its modernequivalent.
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This is the modernequivalent of "gunboat diplomacy".
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It has been described as the modernequivalent of branding.
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Armed with an outline design the would-be landowning builder now came to the practical problem, the modernequivalent of hanging the ceiling paper.
Are they to have radar protection—the modernequivalent to the anti-submarine loop?
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However, the modernequivalent of £400 in 1912 is £40,000 a year.
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We must not have a modernequivalent of the groundnuts scheme.
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The tape recorder is the modernequivalent of the shorthand writer.
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I suppose that it is the modernequivalent of the key to the executive washroom.
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Do we hear much about that, or about its modernequivalent?
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Allowing that to happen is the modernequivalent of burning a witch at the stake.
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This is the modernequivalent of the old idea of conveying to a man of straw.
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That is the modernequivalent of the old idea of conveying to a man of straw.
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Let us use our expertise by replacing him by the broader modernequivalent.
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Those students are the modernequivalent of apprentices in the old-fashioned organisation of industry.
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It has gone to provide accountants and the modernequivalent of the cash register—the computer.
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The modernequivalent of coins is the monetary system as a whole.
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They are rarely about alliances which commit us to send gunboats or their modernequivalent.
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The nearest modernequivalent is a hostel.
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It is the modernequivalent of the land overflowing with milk and honey, if we substitute sugar for honey.
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That is the modernequivalent to the mote and the beam, and the gnat and the camel.
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I have not pursued my studies to the extent of ascertaining the modernequivalent of this penalty.
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It is also necessary to provide better, updated methods of training and a modernequivalent of the old apprenticeship schemes.
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