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Meanings of single persons in English
Person not in a marital relationship.
Synonyms
Examples for "single"
Examples for "single"
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Before this we have achieved our targets every single year,'' he said.
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But EU rules require border checks with countries outside its single market.
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However, high-resolution cryo-EM reconstruction often requires hundreds of thousands of single-particle images.
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It was the single most democratic system of church government in Europe.
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Personal good health is the single most important concern of most people.
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This is partly caused by the greater economic problems among the unmarried.
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Government family planning programmes have policies against supplying condoms to unmarried people.
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An unidentified official told the newspaper both men were unmarried American citizens.
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They were, of course, in due time married off, or remained unmarried.
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He died unmarried, in the year 1797, at the age of eighty.
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He walked miles before seeing a single person in the deserted fields.
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It's incredible how every single person at Omega Point has a job.
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We couldn't find a single person who had a problem with him.
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And every single person in this room is part of that change.
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Resurrection of a single person was and remains impossible for the Core.
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Gladys was now twenty-four and was even more anxious to marry than is the average unmarried person.
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It has sometimes been said, and with much truth, that 'no unmarried person was ever thoroughly and completely educated.'
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After a few years of trying to successfully navigate this territory myself, as an unmarried person in a long-term relationship, I sympathise with this woman.
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The proportion of unmarried persons in the Association was large, and young men predominated.
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Simple fornication between unmarried persons is neither considered as a crime nor a disgrace.
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There are plenty of single people in New York looking for spouses.
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Analysts say single people and high wage earners will benefit the most.
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A single people refused to join in the common intercourse of mankind.
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Another resettlement camp, Anibare, is home to single people and childless couples.
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There is little or no public housing for single people, it says.
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Government family planning programmes have policies against supplying condoms to unmarried people.
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On these occasions the unmarried people meet together and dance and sing in company.
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He had spoken of immorality between married and unmarried people.
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Moslem sensibilities would never tolerate two unmarried people living together.
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The laws being considered by Indonesia's parliament would see unmarried people who have sex jailed.
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The proportion of unmarried persons in the Association was large, and young men predominated.
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Simple fornication between unmarried persons is neither considered as a crime nor a disgrace.
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A guide for married and unmarried persons of both sexes.
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But in the unions of unmarried persons there generally lurks some half-hidden sense of shame.
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It is not easy to explain one's desire to marry off all the unmarried persons in one's vicinity.
Usage of single persons in English
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For one group of single persons the change has been only beneficial.
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They were married and single persons of both sexes and of all ages.
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Formerly used also of single persons or things: this one .
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Fearing; not single persons, but dozens, arise on the memory.
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But all enthusiasm was individual property, the reaction of single persons with excess adrenalin.
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Seldom in war a match for single persons-norin peace; therefore kings make themselves absolute.
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A dinner card is always addressed to a husband and wife, and individually to single persons.
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The freedom of the city was also being given now not to single persons only, but to whole provinces.
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This portion of South Carolina was not thickly settled, owing to single persons owning very large tracts of land.
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But most of the pictures were taken on dry land, of single persons, couples, and groups in their bathing suits.
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Sojourners and single persons
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What is true of whole nations, and of whole churches, is very often true of single persons-ofeach of us.
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In some districts of Portugal the proportion of married to single persons is as 1 to 173!
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The extension of the standard-rate band to £17,500 in respect of single persons and £35,000 for married persons.
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The nature of traffic between L1 and Moonbase dictated the need for a compact, fuel-efficient vehicle to transport small groups and occasionally single persons.
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Thus the United States prison census of 1904 showed that 64 per cent of all prisoners were single persons.
