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nexus
/ˈnɛksəs/
noun 5
Collocations
4ADJ.
advanced, ahead, occidental, old, pliable, rigid
VERB + NEXUS
backed, operating
NEXUS + NOUN
money, technology
PREP.
between
Definitions
noun
1
A form or state of connection.
2
A form or state of connection.
3
A connected group; a network, a web.
Sunday's election pits Move Forward and the billionaire Shinawatra family's Pheu Thai against ruling parties backed by a nexus of old money, conservatives and generals with influence over key institutions involved in two decades of upheaval in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy.
4
A centre or focus of something.
More than just a corporate juggernaut, Nvidia also has become an instrument of statecraft, operating at the nexus of advanced technology, diplomacy, and geopolitics.
5
In the work of the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943): a group of words expressing two concepts in one unit (such as a clause or sentence).
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Synonyms
noun — the means of connection between things linked in series
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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Sunday's election pits Move Forward and the billionaire Shinawatra family's Pheu Thai against ruling parties backed by a nexus of old money, conservatives and generals with influence over key institut
Wiktionary02
More than just a corporate juggernaut, Nvidia also has become an instrument of statecraft, operating at the nexus of advanced technology, diplomacy, and geopolitics.
Wiktionary03
My locality is a nexus for occidental and oriental interplay, which is abundant in emotional undulations.
Tatoeba · #908576004
Whereas the junction is more stiff or rigid, the nexus is more pliable; it is, as it were, animate or articulated.
Tatoeba · #994057705
Up ahead is the nexus between our two universes.
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