Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the quality of duplicating or doubling; especially, in physiology, having the quality of duplicating or dividing into two by natural growth or spontaneous division.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.
- adjective (Biol.) Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, related to, or being a
duplicate
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Examples
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Sampson expressed concerns about what he called a duplicative federal resolution and assessment authority, as well as potentially duplicative authority within the ONI.
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Sampson expressed concerns about what he called a duplicative federal resolution and assessment authority, as well as potentially duplicative authority within the ONI.
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Search the word "unique" (which appears only twice in duplicative expressions) and you'll find this gem:
Saltzman's in on Paulson stadiums deal (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Because those who perform earlier-stage research will not benefit unless they themselves are the ones to do the later-stage research to bring the project to completion, there will be a large incentive to conceal research results and other information, resulting in duplicative research.
California Dreaming, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It was left to Mr. Glocer to push through a more drastic proposal that consolidated the division, and wiped away layers of what the company called duplicative executive positions.
Crunch Time at Thomson Reuters Shira Ovide 2011
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The measure signed into law Wednesday will fund federal agencies at current levels through March 18, while slicing $4 billion from eight programs that Obama has identified as duplicative or unnecessary and more than 50 local projects requested by individual lawmakers, otherwise known as earmarks.
White House proposes $6.5 billion more in spending cuts 2011
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The measure signed into law Wednesday will fund federal agencies at current levels through March 18, while slicing $4 billion from eight programs that Obama has identified as duplicative or unnecessary and more than 50 local projects requested by individual lawmakers, otherwise known as earmarks.
White House proposes $6.5 billion more in spending cuts 2011
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About the best he managed was that it was "duplicative," which was about as nonsensical a position as could be imagined.
How Joe Lieberman helped the Democrats lose the election Ezra Klein 2010
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At a press conference at Moffett Field on Tuesday morning, the White House's first-ever chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, said the Obama administration began working on the initiative in March to address the "duplicative" nature of the federal government's computer networks, "where you have 23 data centers in one agency."
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At a press conference at Moffett Field on Tuesday morning, the White House's first-ever chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, said the Obama administration began working on the initiative in March to address the "duplicative" nature of the federal government's computer networks, "where you have 23 data centers in one agency."
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