Relevant. Survey. Participation

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Relevant

/ˈɹɛl ə vənt/

(adj) relating to a subject in an appropriate way (a way that makes sense)

● Do you have any experience that is relevant to this job?

● This point is very relevant to the debate.

● That message is more relevant now than ever.

Other words in this family: irrelevance, irrelevant, relevance

Focus

/ ˈfoʊ kəs /

(n) a subject that is being discussed or studied; an interest

● The study's main focus is adults with sleep disorders.

● Our main focus is to help solve the problem of hunger in this city.

● Feminist topics are the focus of most of her books.

(v) to direct your attention or effort at something specific

● She has an amazing ability to focus on her work for hours at a time.

● Among the many gifts my mother gave me was the ability to focus on the positive rather than the negative.

● We’ve been focusing on how we can best serve and support the American people.

Other words in this family: focused, focuses, focusing, focussed, focussing, refocus, refocused, refocuses, refocusing, refocussed, refocusses, refocussing

Survey

noun /ˈsɜɹ veɪ, səɹˈveɪ /

(n) an activity where many people answer questions about what they do or think; a poll

● We did an online survey to see which services our customers prefer.

● The survey showed that 90 percent of your friends want to know if they've done something to upset you.

● We completed a major survey for the city’s Department of Health.

verb /səɹˈveɪ/

(v) to ask (many people) a question or a series of questions in order to gather information about what most people do or think about something; to look at and examine all parts of (something)

● Let's survey the group to see what kind of pizza they want.

● When we survey students and teachers, we find that 90 percent of them believe they have a learning style.

● They surveyed fewer than 80 people in the school.

Other words in this family: surveyed, surveying, surveys

Participation

/ pɑɹˌtɪs əˈpeɪ ʃən /

(n) involvement with others in doing something together

● The show had a lot of audience participation.

● Participation in the arts is down dramatically over the last twenty years.

● New York decided to come to terms with its participation in the cotton industry and the slavery that also existed in New York.

Other words in this family: participate, participant, participants, participated, participates, participating, participatory

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