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passive attitude

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meanings of passiveand attitude


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passive
adjective
uk /ˈpæs.ɪv/ us /ˈpæs.ɪv/
languagespecialized
The passive form of a verb is being used when the grammatical subject is the person or thing that experiences the effect of an action, rather than the person or thing that causes ...
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attitude
noun
uk /ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/ us /ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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Examples of passive attitude


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We have seen fraud grow as a result and people have also developed a very passiveattitude towards receiving their giro.
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They are probably right in that assessment if they adopt a passiveattitude towards this development.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
That was not a passiveattitude of sitting back and waiting for something to come to one.
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Is he aware that in the present passiveattitude in the dockyards towards civil contract work there is no one responsible for seeking civil contracts?
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He certainly manoeuvred his armoured divisions and did not maintain a passiveattitude.
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By and large, they have taken a passiveattitude to investment, ensuring the largest return for their policyholders.
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For too long we have adopted a passiveattitude.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
But that does not mean that the new shareholder will adopt the same passiveattitude to the companies as did the old shareholders.
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They have adopted a completely passiveattitude in the face of this economic crisis.
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A passiveattitude will do nothing to encourage growth.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Do you think if we had known that we would have taken up the attitude which we did, and which, remember, was a very passiveattitude.
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It is so easy to take a passiveattitude towards events and to delude ourselves that we are merely spectators on the sidelines and not deeply involved.
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Or do we teach a passiveattitude?
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But the party remained discredited by the passiveattitude of most of its members.
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At his early stage as ruler, he maintained a passiveattitude to nobles.
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Her passiveattitude did not gain her any respect from the royal house.
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These purely passiveattitude control systems have limited pointing accuracy, because the spacecraft will oscillate around energy minima.
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The goal here is a passiveattitude.
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Changes in their working circumstances have also had a profound effect upon the creation of women's passive attitudes towards informal care.
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