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listener | Business English

listener
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈlɪsənər/us
COMMUNICATIONS
someone who listens, especially to a radio programme:
We're targeting our advertising at regular listeners to the programme.

Examples of listener

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Alerting listeners or performers to this can provoke defensive reactions.
We describe listeners as caring, understanding, trusting and sympathetic individuals.
Methodological issues in training listeners to perceive nonnative phonemes.
In particular the quota of long-time listeners who spent more than four hours every day listening to the radio diminished.
In the choice of accent placement, speakers encode significant information for listeners.
Such variables may represent characteristics of listeners' backgrounds, personality traits, habits or 'mental sets'.
The question regarding the 'strict musicality' of listeners' experiences deserves more attention.
The heterogeneous results regarding preferences may partly re-ect researchers' tendency to look for differences between subcategories of listeners as much as for general trends.
The need to move our listeners is stronger than ever.
Moreover, it illustrates the power of listeners to co-construct narratives in both positive and negative ways.
Furthermore, talker normalization is contingent on listeners' expectations regarding the interpretation of acoustic patterns - which should not happen for an automatic direct-mapping process.
As speakers and listeners use particular lexical, semantic, and syntactic representations, some of these representations become bound into routines.
Sentence processing in the framework of this model refers to how listeners map surface forms onto the underlying meanings or functions of sentences.
They found that, overall, listeners of these languages paid less attention to stress than to intrasentential cues in deciding agent - patient relations.
Tone pairs were dichotically presented and listeners identified which tone they heard in each ear.
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