Antonym: absolute. Similar words: comparatively, comparative advantage, declarative, comparable, separatism, reparation, separation, reparations. Meaning: [kəm'pærətɪv] n. the comparative form of an adjective. adj. 1. relating to or based on or involving comparison 2. having significance only in relation to something else.
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31. This essay presents further reflections on comparative method.
32. Does my hon. Friend know the comparative costs involved?
33. I was fifty and a comparative newcomer to computers.
34. Comparative political systems in the contemporary world.
35. This outline is especially pertinent for comparative purposes.
36. An excellent review of comparative methods.
37. The comparative institutional analysis outlined above proceeds as follows.
38. The comparative static propositions listed above can be tested with respect to these particular optimal values.
39. Overall, the statistical results confirm the relationship between economic development and democracy established by the comparative studies in the earlier phase.
40. The same method can not be used for a polymer and one must resort to comparative techniques.
41. Space and resources preclude an exhaustive or even an extensive comparative study in this work.
42. Neither does Victorian Britain provide any comparative baseline of a tranquil, law-abiding society.
43. Given the existence of resource mobility in a single country,(http://sentencedict.com/comparative.html) the exploitation of comparative advantage is possible.
44. Obviously they can not weigh up the comparative cost of some type of credit which is beyond their ken.
45. Clearly this definition can be generalized in order to compare a number of different systems and thus provide a useful comparative measure.
46. There has never been a time in economic history when comparative advantage was less static.
47. We've done lots of comparative work, case-control studies ... soc: Oh dear!
48. From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into penury by conceding 18 unanswered points.
49. Comparative analysis can then increase our confidence regarding what we know about the political world.
50. Briefing box 1.1 Making classifications: Aristotle and Finer Description and classification are the building blocks of comparative politics.
51. Comparative analysis suggests that there has been a considerable amount of divergence of evolution in the cortices of different mammalian lines.
52. There are many important questions which emerge in relation to comparative study which employs place or locality as the frame of reference and explanation.
53. The recent shift towards indirect taxation would have lowered even further the position of this country in the comparative scene.
54. This essay outlines the uses of comparative history as well as Mill's methods of agreement and difference.
55. The second is to encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science.
56. This makes any comparative analysis of data recorded at different times or using different aggregation units problematical.
57. This suggested that a more detailed investigation into growth patterns, particularly on a comparative basis[sentencedict.com], would be valuable.
58. If anything, they served to intensify the boredom by providing a comparative.
59. Comparative cultural studies have now demonstrated beyond question that similar mythic tales are to be found in every quarter of this earth.
60. There was a period of comparative stagnation in the nineties and a brief interruption following the financial panic in 1907.
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