special provision

collocation in English

meaningsofspecialandprovision

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special
adjective
uk
/ˈspeʃ.əl/us
/ˈspeʃ.əl/
not ordinary ...
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provision
noun
uk
/prəˈvɪʒ.ən/us
/prəˈvɪʒ.ən/
the act of ...
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(Definition ofspecialandprovisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofspecial provision

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The relevant violable constraints are somespecialprovisionshould be made for ge-, be-, and the nonadverbial prefixes in general.
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There were no community transport schemes and nospecialprovisionfor the rural area.
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This prominent business organization echoed the administration's conviction that anyspecialprovision for the unemployed would add to the budget deficit, which would dry up 22.
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Specialprovisionmust be made for flies at the edges of the area since, for a finite spreadsheet, there is no possibility of movement past the endpoints.
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Withoutspecialprovisionthe system is likely to lose the ability to distinguish the norm from the deviation, while adapting to the most frequently observed examples.
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The movement of goods abroad by ship from the docks will in the future come within the ambit ofspecialprovisionfor investment grants.
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In contrast, the amendment would limitspecialprovisionto those people who are paying on a measured basis.
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There ought to bespecialprovisionfor accidents, because he is injured under the same conditions practically that he would be in active service.
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I really do not think there is any ground for anxiety when you have thatspecialprovision.
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In these circumstances, to makespecialprovisionfor any house which may happen to be in repair seems to me not to be justified.
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There is somespecialprovision, obviously very necessary, in the case of miners' welfare trusts.
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We also makespecialprovisionfor off-sales hours.
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There will bespecialprovisionfor buses, the performance of which suffers due to congestion.
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Nospecialprovisionis made for the class of teachers referred to in this question.
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He was going to make aspecialprovisionin respect of lands owned by municipalities.
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I think there is somespecialprovisionfor that.
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The second point why we say that we do not require aspecialprovisionis this.
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There is, further, aspecialprovisionmade for women whose marriages end in divorce when they are over sixty years of age.
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By applying this definition we are able, without making the list too long, to makespecialprovisionfor bodies with statutory interests.
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In the early stages they refused to make anyspecialprovisionfor such people.
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