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01. I was able to find a book in the library that will be [relevant] to my research project.
02. Talking about the personal life of employees is not [relevant] to a discussion of their ability to do their job.
03. Ideas of loyalty to one's company have little [relevance] for the modern businessman, who seems to view each position he takes as a stepping stone to a better paid job somewhere else.
04. Much of what I studied while I was doing my university degree now seems totally [irrelevant] to what I need in the working world.
05. The students were instructed to open their books to the [relevant] page as the professor began his lecture.
06. The writings of Machiavelli continue to have [relevance] for the modern, ruthless businessman bent on success at all cost.
07. Davis had been off work for so long that his suggestions for improving production techniques were [irrelevant], and out of date.
08. Please ensure that you attach all the [relevant] documents to your application.
09. Nelson's comments were not really [relevant] to the discussion.
10. A movie star's private life should have no [relevance] to his professional career.
11. This new publication is of special [relevance] to computer users who want to keep up-to-date with the newest technology.
12. The Reform party has made itself totally [irrelevant] to the discussions with its hardline stance.
13. Many traditional job skills have become [irrelevant] as machines replace man in more and more jobs.
14. It is [irrelevant] whether a person is male or female, black or white or yellow, gay or straight, fat or slim; the only important thing is if he/she is a good person.
15. Your summary has too many [irrelevant] details; you need to make it much more concise.
16. Many of South Africa's former holidays were canceled as they were only [relevant] to the white population.
17. According to Maier and Warren, university seminars are most effective when they are regular and frequent so that the discussions are [relevant] to current course topics.
18. Psychologists now believe that memory deficits which occur as we get older may be because we lose the ability to suppress [irrelevant] thoughts or [irrelevant] stimuli.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • relevant — rel·e·vant / re lə vənt/ adj 1: tending logically to prove or disprove a fact of consequence or to make the fact more or less probable and thereby aiding the trier of fact in making a decision determined that the evidence was relevant; also:… …   Law dictionary

  • relevant — RELEVÁNT, Ă, relevanţi, te, adj. Care relevă, care scoate sau iese în evidenţă. – Din fr. relevant. cf. r e l e v a. Trimis de RACAI, 22.11.2003. Sursa: DEX 98  relevánt adj. m., pl. relevánţi; f. sg. r …   Dicționar Român

  • Relevant — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Relevant País …   Wikipedia Español

  • relevant — relevant, germane, material, pertinent, apposite, applicable, apropos are comparable when they mean having a relation to or a bearing upon the matter in hand or the present circumstances. Something relevant has a traceable connection, especially… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Relevant — may refer to:* Relevant operator, a concept in physics, see renormalization group * Relevant, Ain, a commune of the Ain département in France * Relevant Magazine , an American religious publication *Relevant (horse), a famous Oldenburg horse in… …   Wikipedia

  • relevant — Adj bedeutsam erw. fach. (20. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus e. relevant, dieses aus l. relevans, dem Partizip Präsens zu l. relevāre in die Höhe heben aus l. levāre heben und l. re .    Ebenso nndl. relevant, nschw. relevant, nnorw. relevant;… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • relevant — [rel′ə vənt] adj. [ML relevans, prp. of relevare, to bear upon < L, to lift up: see RELIEVE] bearing upon or relating to the matter in hand; pertinent; to the point relevance n. relevancy relevantly adv. SYN. RELEVANT implies close logical… …   English World dictionary

  • Relevant — Rel e*vant ( vant), a. [F. relevant, p. pr. of relever to raise again, to relieve. See {Relieve}.] 1. Relieving; lending aid or support. [R.] Pownall. [1913 Webster] 2. Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand; pertinent;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • relevant — »bedeutsam, ‹ge›wichtig«: Das seit dem 17. Jh. bezeugte Adjektiv ist wohl aus der mlat. Fügung relevantes articuli »berechtigte, beweiskräftige Argumente (im Rechtsstreit)« entlehnt. Lat. relevans ist das Part. Präs. von lat. re levare »in die… …   Das Herkunftswörterbuch

  • relevant — Adj. (Aufbaustufe) geh.: von großer Bedeutung, maßgebend Synonyme: ausschlaggebend, bedeutsam, entscheidend, maßgeblich, wesentlich, wichtig, essenziell (geh.), signifikant (geh.) Beispiel: Diese Frage ist für uns sehr relevant …   Extremes Deutsch

  • Relevant — (lat.), erheblich, wichtig; Relevanz, Erheblichkeit, besonders eines Rechtsmittels; Gegensatz: irrelevant (s. d.) …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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