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词汇 example_english_admission-of-defeat
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admission of defeat

collocation in English

meanings of admissionand defeat


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admission
noun
uk /ədˈmɪʃ.ən/ us /ədˈmɪʃ.ən/
the act of agreeing that something is true, ...
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defeat
noun[C or U]
uk /dɪˈfiːt/ us /dɪˈfiːt/
the fact of losing against someone in a fight or competition, or when someone or something is made ...
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Examples of admission of defeat


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But burning was an admissionofdefeat by the inquisitors.
This is a rallying cry rather than an admissionofdefeat, however, and research proceeds apace.
As an educational policy, damage limitation is an admissionofdefeat: we can't replace dialect variation.
Partition is always an admissionofdefeat, wherever it takes place.
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To go back to the old rating system at 1973 values would be an admissionofdefeat.
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It would be a great admissionofdefeat if they did not believe that and if, indeed, they did not say it.
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I feel that it would be an admissionofdefeat if we thought that nothing could be done in those areas without increased funding.
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Their use is to some extent an admissionofdefeat, an admission of a failure to maintain the peace.
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The apology was not an admissionofdefeat; it said that the inspector had come to a legitimate conclusion.
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Therefore, the use of imprisonment for the defaulter is an admissionofdefeat.
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If anything amounts to an admissionofdefeat, it is that consultation paper on a scheme that was introduced merely two years ago.
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I hope that this is not an admissionofdefeat.
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That is an admissionofdefeat.
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It is an admissionofdefeat, and is calculated to impose an artificial barrier to progress, which must one day give way and bring its retribution.
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It is not an admissionofdefeat.
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If we did that, while it would be an admissionofdefeat, at least we should know where we stood, and that would be an asset.
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Carting people off into the desert is inhumane and an admissionofdefeat in the face of all the things we have not yet dealt with.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Analysts have interpreted this as an admissionofdefeat in the battle to control the money supply.
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Wikipedia

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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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