relation : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a professional relation between instructors and those they instruct
  

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• noun the relation between an anaphor and its antecedent
  

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• noun the responsibility of a lawyer to act in the best interests of the client
  attorney-client relation.
  

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• noun the responsibility of a bank to act in the best interests of the depositors
  

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• noun one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
  blood relative; cognate; sib.
  

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• one connected by blood or descent.

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• noun a relation between different business enterprises
  

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Co`-re*la"tion noun

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1. Corresponding relation.

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• noun a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false
  implication; logical implication.
  

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• noun the responsibility of a confidential adviser to act in the best interest of the advisee
  

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• noun the responsibility of a conservator to act in the best interests of the ward
  

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• noun a court in some states in the United States that has jurisdiction over family disputes (especially those involving children)
  court of domestic relations; family court.
  

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• noun the responsibility of corporate directors to act in the best interests of stockholders
  

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• noun the responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient
  

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• noun a court in some states in the United States that has jurisdiction over family disputes (especially those involving children)
  court of domestic relations; family court.
  

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• noun the responsibility of an executor (or administrator) of an estate to act in the best interests of the heir
  

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• (Mus.), a progression in harmony, in which a certain note in a chord appears in the next chord prefixed by a flat or sharp.

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• noun the legal relation that exists when one person justifiably places reliance on another whose aid or protection is sought in some matter
  

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• noun a linguistic relation established by grammar
  

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• noun Switzerland's information network for security and defense studies and for peace and conflict research and for international relations
  ISN.
  

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• noun the responsibility of a lawyer to act in the best interests of the client
  attorney-client relation.
  

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• noun a professional relation that is regulated by law (as between a lawyer and a client)
  

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• noun a relation between linguistic forms or constituents
  

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• noun a relation between propositions
  

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• noun a relation between magnitudes
  magnitude relation.
  

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• noun a relation between mathematical expressions (such as equality or inequality)
  

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• noun the professional relation between a health care professional and a patient
  

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• noun the relation of opposition between crystals or molecules that are reflections of one another
  enantiomorphism.
  

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• noun an independent agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor unions
  NLRB.
  

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• noun the responsibility of a nurse to act in the best interests of the patient
  

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• noun the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole
  meronymy.
  

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• noun the responsibility of partners to act in one another's best interests
  

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• noun a relation between persons
  personal relationship.
  

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• noun (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts
  affinity.
  
  • in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans

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• noun social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power
  politics.
  
  • office politics is often counterproductive

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• noun the relation that exists when one person requests and is granted professional help from a qualified source
  

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• noun a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution
  PR.
  

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• noun someone employed to arrange publicity (for a firm or a public figure)
  press agent; publicity man; PR man.
  

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• noun a person employed to establish and promote a favorable relationship with the public
  

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• noun an advertising campaign intended to improve public relations
  

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• noun a relation between magnitudes
  magnitude relation.
  

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• noun the responsibility of receiver or trustee in bankruptcy to act in the best interests of the creditor
  

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• noun (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
  relation.
  
  • his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed

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• noun a relation between meanings
  

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• noun the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur
  congress; intercourse; sexual intercourse; sex act; carnal knowledge; sexual congress; relation; copulation; coitus; coition.
  

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• noun a relation between living organisms (especially between people)
  

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• noun the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
  position.
  
  • the position of the hands on the clock
  • he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage

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• noun the academic relation between teachers and their students
  

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• noun a relation involving time
  

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• noun the responsibility of a trustee to act in the best interests of the beneficiary
  

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• noun the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts
  holonymy.
  

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