CLEAN BREAK collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of clean and break
clean
adjective
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/kliːn/us
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/kliːn/
free from any dirty marks, pollution, ...
break
noun
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/breɪk/us
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/breɪk/
Examples of clean break
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Or, does the oratorio represent a clean break with the 'didactic' past?
In doing so, they also help to further another valuable interest, viz. to signal a clean break with the past, whose importance - both symbolic and practical - should not be underestimated.
When the mask is removed at the end of a performance, there is a 'clean break' with the character and the play both spiritually and psychologically.
Nor should we demand such a clean break, in any case anathema to postmodern ideology; surely some advantage lies in working through contemporary forms of knowledge.
Furthermore, this clean break will be built on an egalitarian distribution of landholdings which will ensure that growth is widely shared and rural institutions embed social inclusiveness.
I can illustrate the type of circumstances when a clean break between the parties would be appropriate by a hypothetical example.
But among fathers who have made such clean break settlements there is a sense of grave injustice.
The first is connected with what is known as "clean break" arrangements.
But there can be no clean break between parent and child.
The pension will be paid directly to the wife in due course, and in that way a clean break can be achieved.
The divorce settlement had taken the form of a so-called "clean break".
Enfranchisement provides a complete and clean _break_—the leaseholders take over all the landlord's rights and obligations, and they take over his interest in the property.
The clean break principle is directed at stamping out the so-called alimony drone.
The issue of clean break settlements has been widely discussed, and rightly so: it is a bone of contention that will not go away.
Essentially, the clean break applies to spousal property and not to child maintenance, and it never has.
This is why the six-month period of transition towards the clean break is crucial in terms of defining the new state's future path.
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