special treatment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspecialandtreatment
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special
adjective
uk/ˈspeʃ.əl/us/ˈspeʃ.əl/
not ordinary ...
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treatment
noun
uk/ˈtriːt.mənt/us/ˈtriːt.mənt/
the way you deal with or behave towards someone ...
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(Definition ofspecialandtreatmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofspecial treatment
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Specialtreatmentis given to the topic of inheritance hierarchies.
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Why should personal pronouns be givenspecialtreatment?
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Nor would a tonal morpheme or boundary tone per se explain why monosyllables requiredspecialtreatment.
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Their primary stated purpose was to identify schools in need ofspecialtreatment.
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They are now also routinely the subject ofspecialtreatmentin courses for foreign learners.
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It also makes it easier for those seekingspecialtreatmentto avail of the private sector.
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The latter deserves thespecialtreatment, as it is indeed poorly studied and theorised.
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The top-level also gets aspecialtreatmentbecause of separate compilation.
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This strategy would grantspecialtreatmentto the foreign companies within their economic area.
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Nor would we regard the "specialtreatment" as a declaration of disapproval.
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This realm of business has always been givenspecialtreatmentbecause of the secrecy surrounding it.
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Such calls will receivespecialtreatment0 1 in the next step of the transformation.
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This then provides justification for providingspecialtreatmentto this particular industry.
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Once political power was lost, the family empire, so dependent on this artificial and arbitraryspecialtreatment, disintegrated.
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These included no treatment, parent training only,specialtreatmentclassroom only, and combined parent training and special classroom.
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I am not sure whether questions of this kind are common enough to warrant aspecialtreatment.
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These fast-track processes givesspecialtreatmentto the individuals with the target diseases for the selected therapies.
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However, this condition can be shown to be satisfied identically, and therefore the singularity requires nospecialtreatment.
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In other words, we would regard thespecialtreatmentas a descriptive response, but not a normative response.
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This necessitates however aspecialtreatmentwith a notion of phantom phoneme, in order to keep left-associativity of sandhi.
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Aspecialtreatmentnear the turning points is, however, necessary even if the integrand is globally sufficiently well sampled.
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And none of the amendments address the inequalities stemming from thespecialtreatmentaccorded to agricultural land.
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