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Meaning of research in English
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- He has dedicated his life to scientific research.
- He emphasized that all the people taking part in the research were volunteers .
- The state of Michigan has endowed three institutes to do research for industry .
- I'd like to see the research that these recommendations are founded on.
- It took months of painstaking research to write the book .
- absorptive capacity
- dream something up phrasal verb
- ergonomically
- jury-rigged
- modularization
- testing ground
- the mother of something idiom
- think outside the box idiom
- study What do you plan on studying at university?
- major US She majored in philosophy at Harvard.
- cram She's cramming for her history exam.
- revise UK I'm revising for tomorrow's test.
- review US We're going to review for the test tomorrow night.
- research Scientists are researching possible new treatments for cancer.
- The amount of time and money being spent on researching this disease is pitiful .
- We are researching the reproduction of elephants .
- She researched a wide variety of jobs before deciding on law .
- He researches heart disease .
- The internet has reduced the amount of time it takes to research these subjects .
- adjudication
- have the measure of someone/something idiom
- interpretable
- interpretive
- reinterpret
- reinterpretation
- reinvestigate
- reinvestigation
- risk assessment
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