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oral | American Dictionary

oral
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈɔr·əl, ˈoʊr-/

oraladjective[not gradable] (SPOKEN)

spoken; not written:
an oral agreement/exam

oraladjective[not gradable] (MOUTH)

of, taken by, or done to the mouth:
oral medication
oral surgery

oral | Business English

oral
adjective
uk /ˈɔːrəl/us
oral agreements, evidence, etc. are in spoken, not written, form:
A select committee will be taking oral evidence as part of its inquiry.
an oral agreement/communication

orally

adverb
Can the contract be changed orally and still be considered legal?

Examples of oral

oral
Factors affecting the immunogenicity of oral poliovirus vaccine in developing countries : review.
The implication is clear - oral lore is dynamic, and we cannot presume that it correctly communicates the facts of history without additional confirmation.
In 1,576 written texts, learners produced just over 1,400 tokens of will; in 175 oral texts, they used more than 700 tokens.
Instructions and sentences used for the elicited oral translation task.
After 1-2 h of observation patients were discharged home with ice-pack on the treated breast and oral analgesics.
A third trial did not find a clinical benefit for the use of oral clodronate in patients with node-positive breast cancer [25].
However, if memorywork is the central focus for the oral history interviewer, then the relationship between interviewer and interviewee needs to be unpacked more carefully.
Also, one would want more information on recorded oral sources, which are overlooked in this volume.
Finally, the students were given oral viva voce examinations.
The same test items presented in an oral or written form and responded to in the same manner led to consistent differences in performance.
What is not as clear, however, is how the specific oral language experience affects the development of various reading processes.
As such, reading is grafted onto oral language skills.
The use of nonstandard phonology by the two groups was assessed using the word reading, nonword reading, and oral picture-naming tests.
One might wonder how children's pronunciation is influenced by the teachers' nonnative oral skills.
Results showed that students taught to use strategies showed significant improvement on oral proficiency tests.
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