Synonym: arranged, businesslike, correct, customary, orderly, proper, regular, stiff, structural, systematic. Antonym: informal. Similar words: normally, informal, format, formation, information, transformation, mall, small. Meaning: ['fɔrml /'fɔːml] n. 1. a lavish dance requiring formal attire 2. a gown for evening wear. adj. 1. being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) 2. characteristic of or befitting a person in authority 3. (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms 4. represented in simplified or symbolic form 5. logically deductive 6. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court.
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211. But it is also useful to plan formal dissemination in advance.
212. Barneys says those stores marked the beginning of a beautiful friendship, a joint venture that only awaited a formal agreement.
213. Even before the formal resignation announcements, the jockeying for position within the Shadow Cabinet was well under way last night.
214. The network is to make a formal announcement Thursday morning.
215. In an ideal world, the purchaser will wish to receive formal consent from every customer and supplier before completing the acquisition.
216. In structuralism, these formal properties are taken at a relatively abstract level.
217. The growth in partisan organisation on local authorities presents problems of integrating the political reality of decision-taking with the formal administrative structure.
218. Any such majority was now thought likely to depend on formal or informal alliances which might emerge from the current intense negotiations.
219. Knowledge is the child of learning by formal or informal education. Dr T.P.Chia
220. Informal education - through reading, experience and self-learning - is often more effective than formal education. Dr T.P.Chia
221. Even the provisions of the formal document, the United States Constitution, may be amended by judicial decisions and custom usage.
222. On the other hand a close business acquaintance will be surprised to receive a letter from you with a very formal tone.
223. And that tuned in well with my inclinations to look for formal qualities and make more or less abstract patterns out of nature.
224. No formal or academic qualifications were required for this, and she did get some training.
225. It was a formal agreement between himself and Richard, signed in their mingled blood on 29 November 1963.
226. The speech is a good example of formal rhetorical argument by analogy rather than logic.
227. Ask around: recommendations from friends or relatives can be more useful than formal advice.
228. Comprehension of algebra requires formal operations as its content is basically abstractions of abstractions.
229. Developers are strongly advised to discuss their proposals with the Minerals Officer first before making any formal application.
230. State bureaucracies are responsive to elites who do not occupy formal positions in the state apparatus.
231. We would acknowledge receipt of Indictment 86-1246 and waive formal reading.
232. The formal announcement is believed to be scheduled for September,[sentencedict.com/formal.html] with modest volumes to be deliverable around November time.
233. Delegates also called for increased formal training to help achieve higher and more consistent standards.
234. Formal police accountability mechanisms Police accountability is the constitutional mechanism which makes the police answerable for their actions.
235. The detainee can make a formal complaint after release, but this offers little solace to the aggrieved individual.
236. The earliest possible leaving of cards, the earliest possible formal call, the most rapid advance of intimacy was called for.
237. He looked cool and infinitely experienced, listening apparently with grave attention to the herald's formal announcement.
238. It is crucial to distinguish between formal and informal styles of language before one can compare dialects in an accurate way.
239. As a precaution, the Jarrett's accountant lodged a formal appeal.
240. Once we make allowances for this formal difference, we can see that both accounts are making the same point.