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relative | American Dictionary
relative adjective [not gradable] (COMPARED WITH)
Relative to (= Considering) birthweight, the newborns were doing well.
relatively
relative noun [C] (FAMILY)
All her relatives came to the wedding.
(Definition of relative from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of relative
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Physicians must learn that it is important to disclose the risks and benefits of procedures and alternatives to patients and their relatives.
The paper takes a structural approach, identifying the characteristics of households, proximity to relatives, frequency of contact, intergenerational transfers and non-kin relationships.
In many cases, older people's property and assets are utilised in commercial activities by their relatives, particularly their children.
Even among biological relatives there are significant differences in temperament.
Studies that identify putative risk factors for the development of bipolar disorder in high-risk children with first-degree relatives with bipolar disorder are also clearly needed.
Changes in attribution and expressed emotion among the relatives of patients with schizophrenia.
Increased morbid risk for schizophrenia-related disorders in relatives of schizotypal personality disorder patients.
Likewise, the obligatory fronting of this constituent places even the zero pronoun in the normal position of the relatives.
Reversionary grants provided economic security during a woman's lifetime at minimal expense to her male relatives.
In addition, polyploid forms of plants can adapt to more extreme conditions than their diploid relatives and are thus of great practical value.
Resemblance between relatives for any trait can be attributable to environmental correlations.
Two main clades were produced consisting of the botanical varieties and the other clade consisted of wild relatives.
How different are we at the level of the genome from our closest living relatives among the primates ?
Covariance of relatives stemming from a population undergoing mixed self and random mating.
Horsetails and ferns are a monophyletic group and the closest living relatives to seed plants.
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Collocations with relative
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At the time that the interviews were scheduled, the proband and affected relative were told that they would be mailed a packet of self-rating assessments.
Many tens of thousands of women have left the labour force to work full-time looking after an aged relative.
The systematic review of bereavement interventions included a survey of so-called 'systemsoriented' approaches, including palliative care, hospice care, and care co-ordination33 and their effects on the outcome of bereaved relatives.
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