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[ adjective ] being founded on
Examples "criticisms based on ignorance" Used in print (Grants-in-Aid and Other Financial Assistance...)For each State ( except Puerto_Rico , Guam , the Virgin_Islands , and , prior to 1962 , Alaska and Hawaii ) determine average per_capita income based_on the last three years . Determine the average per_capita income for the U._S. based_on the last three years . (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)These differences in_turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built_up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself , within a compact and uniform territorial area , but that Hoijer 's vocabulary is based_on Swadesh 's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined . Related terms |
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