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Meanings of flexible in English
Making or willing to make concessions.
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Examples for "fit"
Examples for "fit"
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They deserve modern, fit-for-purpose facilities that support high quality services, he said.
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His answer was simple: Your values alignment and fit within our culture.
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They also raised the issue of where victims fit into the process.
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He had asked questions about whether current laws were fit for purpose.
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Photo: Supplied Navi says it's a good fit for the corporate market.
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Prime Minister John Key said the Kiwibank deal was an elegant solution.
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Because it promises an elegant, win-win solution to the problem of poverty.
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Scanbox is an elegant solution to a simple but persistently frustrating problem.
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He is elegant, has a good repetitive easy action and excellent pace.
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An elegant use of the card distinguishes the well-informed in social usage.
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Yet there is nothing graceful about the overloaded boats heading towards Europe.
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It was a large, red brick house built along graceful Georgian lines.
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The flight of the nighthawk is free and graceful in the extreme.
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The new broom has a rare chance to suggest a graceful exit.
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The roof is battlemented, and the tracery in the windows is graceful.
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Do you imagine she has given up communing with nimble young gentlemen?
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Governments are anything but nimble, let alone open, in their decision-making processes.
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These nimble operators not only help students cheat their way into universities.
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Still young and nimble, John Maclean has already had two successful careers.
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Feel that you have these strong and nimble elements in your body.
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Risa stood just a moment longer, taking in Lilith's young, lithe form.
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The leader was tall and lithe, the second very short but stocky.
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Leesil didn't need a closer look to recognize the tall lithe stature.
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She was a thing of lithe grace in her soft red silk.
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To survive we must be ever ready, ever lithe of foot -
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The Brazilian government needs to be more agile with this, he said.
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Hisresearch interests include database systems, versioning systems,semantic web, and agile software development.
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However, it was quite agile on the trail and on the rock.
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It's a small one, an agile number with a lot of glass.
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Traditional data centers are not as agile or flexible in meeting demand.
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The broad shoulders, strong arms, deft hands with their long nimble fingers.
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What caught Owen's eye were the deft touches in crowded penalty areas.
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He sets to sweeping, and is not very deft in the exercise.
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It also was a deft ploy of blame-shifting, which exonerates his government.
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From Civil War hospital experience the father had been a deft bonesetter.
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Redeemed himself with an almost identical acrobatic effort in the second half.
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And not, I might add, doing anything unusually acrobatic at the time.
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We manage to stay inside only by performing some extraordinary acrobatic contortions.
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They are fast and acrobatic and fight with a savage, flesh-tearing ferocity.
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Orange red, pale blue, E flat minor, acrobatic, Ariel-like in its changes.
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To co-ordinate, you can't go far wrong with a willowy patterned neckscarf.
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Kathleen Beck would be no help: her daughters were willowy, complacent things.
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It was deeper than her willowy proportions had led him to expect.
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The light, willowy machines are subject to every caprice of the wind.
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Her body bent like a willowy bow, the epitome of supple strength.
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Presently, however, he hove in view, doing fearfully lissom things in mid-floor.
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He had the lissom hands and cheerful self-absorption that bring success.
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The right arm lay lissom like a snake across her breast.
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But this slim Irish girl with the young, lissom body held her own.
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Her gown hung closely to her lissom and rather full form.
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He had grown up swinging clubs with shafts of blond, whippy ash.
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Particularly the 16-year-old He Kexin, who had fallen on Sunday but was extremely whippy today.
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The only opponents Reacher truly feared were small whippy guys with fast hands and sharp blades.
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Though they knew it was not calling to them, they both surged forward through the whippy trees.
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Jolts in Nikkei futures in afterhours trading have also prompted some whippy currency moves in both directions.
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The movement, in its sinuous, flexile gliding, resembled somewhat a serpent's crawl.
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Her motions were listless and languid, but flexile as a willow.
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He wore the light flexile mail of the ancient heroes of Araby or Fez.
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The flexile and dubious expression of youth was forever gone.
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The throwing of an ax was a little matter to the sharp-eyed and flexile-muscled cave men.
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The loose-jointed giant turned on his heel and left Brent standing alone.
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He was rather tall, shaggy, loose-jointed, long-armed, broad-shouldered, and he squinted awfully.
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We won't even need a loose-jointed confession, because we caught him black-handed.
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A loose-jointed man in clerical garb came hurrying down the avenue.
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He was-letus say-something like fourteen years old; long and loose-jointed and towheaded.
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Persephone nods, then picks herself up and breaks into a loose-limbed jog.
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Lena sat loose-limbed, her head bowed, visibly sagging in front of me.
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Now, right now, Jamal performs a loose-limbed, solitary dance among the stone tablets.
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In uttering those words Herr Schulz seemed suddenly to become loose-limbed and easy.
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Feeling loose-limbed and relaxed, she began running up the incline toward Warren's house.
Usage of flexible in English
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However, the changing nature, and improvements in flexible work practices, may help.
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Different parts of the economy are more flexible than others of course.
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Background: Achieving proficiency in flexible endoscopy requires a great amount of practice.
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Ms Sage said the government should be more flexible in its approach.
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Certainly our attitude to creative freedom and game development remains fairly flexible.
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You must be flexible enough to let new ideas come from shooting.
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Can a more flexible Ireland be matched by a more flexible Europe?
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If you have a flexible work environment, you can go home early.
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Universities have been urged to be as flexible as possible this year.
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But also a first test for flexible thinking behind a new desk.
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BA said it had introduced more flexible rebooking policies for passengers affected.
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You need people who are flexible and can adapt to change quickly.
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A more flexible approach on your part could work to your advantage.
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Language is really flexible and words can have more than one meaning.
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Conversely, the federal government is free to be more flexible with deficits.
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The idea of flexible work hours is welcomed by most progressive workplaces.
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Flexible through the time
Flexible across language varieties
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