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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
relativise .
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Examples
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Dasgupta, as quoted earlier, invited us to redefine wealth itself in a way that relativises GNP and includes the idea of natural capital; can the same kind of redefinition apply to our ideas about individual wealth or security?
Lecture: Ecology and Economy - University of Kent, Canterbury 2005
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Dasgupta, as quoted earlier, invited us to redefine wealth itself in a way that relativises GNP and includes the idea of natural capital; can the same kind of redefinition apply to our ideas about individual wealth or security?
Lecture: Ecology and Economy - University of Kent, Canterbury 2005
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The emergence of China as a global power in effect relativises everything.
New Statesman 2009
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"The emergence of China as a global power," Jacques writes, "in effect relativises everything."
New Statesman 2009
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