| NOUN | relation | human relationship, relationship | a relation between people |
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| 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 | |
| Narrower | partnership | A cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal |
| personal relation, personal relationship | A relation between persons | |
| Broader | relation | An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together |
| Spanish | relación | |
| Catalan | lligam, relació, vincle | |
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