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history | American Dictionary

history
noun
us/ˈhɪs·tə·ri, -tri/

historynoun (PAST EVENTS)

[ C/U ]
(the study of) past events considered together, esp. events or developments of a particular period, country, or subject:
[ U ]I’m taking a course in American history.
[ C ]I’m reading a history of jazz (= a book that describes the development of this music).

historynoun (REPEATED HAPPENINGS)

[ Cusually sing ]
something that has been done or experienced by a particular person or thing many times over a long period:
Our family has a history of diabetes.

history | Business English

history
noun[ C, usually singular ]
uk /ˈhɪstəri/us
a record of past events relating to a particular person or company:
This is the 50th consecutive month of uninterrupted job growth, the longest in the nation's history.
No one else in the Bank's long history has climbed all the way up the ladder.
When a person applies for a bank account or credit card, their credit history can be tracked.
career/employment/medical history
a record of actions or events that have happened often over a period of time:
a history of sth The company has had a history of difficult management-union relations.

Examples of history

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The other point about official histories is that they have a tradition of being rather bland, indeed boring, in tone.
Indeed, from this perspective, one could equally well argue for similarities in their sociolinguistic histories.
However, in the present study, boys' relationship histories were on a continuum going from not knowing each other to seeing their partners very often.
Such reactions may be seen as perpetuating the immaturity of those with resistant histories and the expectations for rejection of those with avoidant histories.
We refer to these classes as "no," "moderate," and "serious" histories of antisocial behavior.
The central question in this literature is this: how do we rank possible histories of the world?
Note that the proof does not require the background assumptions; it only requires the very weak assumption that there exist the three histories mentioned.
Since then at least eight other cathedrals have been similarly memorialised and several other cathedral histories are currently in the process of being written.
Utilitarianism and prioritarianism make a strong assumption about measures of how good lotteries over histories are for individuals, or for short, individual goodness measures.
Another problem is that the agency histories are too often inadequate, inaccurate or simply incomprehensible.
There are a number of possible reasons for the abbey's surprising absence from most religious histories of the period.
Later chapters cover ores and waste products, diamonds and their histories and the nature of the planetary bodies of the solar system.
Large forces and weighty histories are at work here, and their presence should be acknowledged and thought about.
No simple equivalencewaa found in hs the distance histories of the profiles.
Other population histories were considered to demonstrate the generality of (1) and (4).
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alternate history
She was also a forward-thinking and imaginative person, harboring an interest in horror, science fiction, alternate history, and dystopian fiction.
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