Meaning | A relation between people; ('relationship' is often used where 'relation' would serve, as in 'the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of 'relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness). |
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Synonym | relationship |
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Narrower | partnership | A cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal |
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personal relation, personal relationship | A relation between persons |
Broader | relation | An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together |
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Spanish | relación |
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Catalan | lligam, relació, vincle |
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