FANCY NAME collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of fancy and name
fancy
adjective
uk
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/ˈfæn.si/us
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/ˈfæn.si/
often disapproving
complicated or including a lot of features or decorations, or trying to impress someone, sometimes in a way that is not necessary or that you do ...
name
noun
uk
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/neɪm/us
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/neɪm/
the word or words that a person, thing, or place is ...
Examples of fancy name
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The constraint is that the binary tree should be atiguously marked, a fancy name for a non-contiguous marking.
Is that a fancy name for temporary loss-leaders?
That goes under the fancy name of managed realignment.
Certainly it maintains or continues internment or detention, by whatever fancy name it is called.
That means the 11-plus, whatever fancy name it is given.
This does not indicate that a fancy name may not be registered.
Indeed, "assembly point" is a fancy name for what, in effect, will be a detention camp.
It is simply a matter of giving a fancy name to an existing benefit.
It is no use trying to hide an ugly situation behind a fancy name.
It is no answer to give a fancy name to this awful spectre, to call it "recession"or"redundancy".
Butazolidine as a trade mark can be used only in relation to phenylbutazone; it is a fancy name.
Let us name the alternative places, give the other site a local habitation as well as a fancy name.
We called it by some fancy name, but it was a pocket-money allowance because the old man needed it.
That jungle of metal, concrete and glass has, as so many things do these days, a fancy _name_—street furniture.
In the future, such places, whatever fancy name they may be given, such as "special areas," will want all the help that they can get.
That is a fancy name which means that he gets the money for taking on the people he would have taken on anyway.
But they cannot afford to pay the sum, even with income support or anything else with a fancy name for handing out charity.
They seem to think that so long as there is a body with a fancy name it will solve all their problems, but that is not the case.
The drug sold under the fancy name, therefore, costs nearly four times as much as the drug which is supplied in the ordinary way by properly qualified chemists.
We were doing "nouvelle vague" a quarter of a century before they invented a fancy name for it.
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To make regulations requiring the details to be published instead of the fancy name would be to alter the way of life which has been accepted from time immemorial.
We wondered why people were so against using regular objects in their systems and concluded that it was because simple objects lacked a fancy name.
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