Relationship Rɪˈleɪʃnʃɪp Close I Good Established Working People

• the relationship between the police and the local community has improved.
• she has a very close relationship with her sister.
• i have established a good working relationship with my boss.
• a master-servant relationship

relationship

1. the way in which two people, groups or countries behave towards each other or deal with each other
• see also love-hate relationship
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• The relationship between the police and the local community has improved.
• She has a very close relationship with her sister.
• I have established a good working relationship with my boss.
• a master-servant relationship
2. a loving and/or sexual friendship between two people
• Their affair did not develop into a lasting relationship.
• She's had a series of miserable relationships.
• Are you in a relationship?
• Money problems have put a strain on their relationship.
3. the way in which two or more things are connected
• the relationship between mental and physical health
• This comment bore no relationship to the subject of our conversation.
• People alter their voices in relationship to background noise.
• an inverse relationship
4. the way in which a person is related to somebody else in a family
• a father-son relationship
• I'm not sure of the exact relationship between them—I think they're cousins.

Extra Examples

• A clear relationship emerged in the study between happiness and level of education.
• At the moment he isn’t in a relationship.
• Britain’s special relationship with the US
• Building strong relationships is essential.
• He claimed to have a distant relationship with royalty.
• He had brief relationships with several women.
• He was not married, but he was in a stable relationship.
• He’s not very good at handling personal relationships.
• His latest book examines the relationship between spatial awareness and mathematical ability.
• I can’t see the relationship between the figures and the diagram.
• I tried everything to make our relationship work.
• In normal human relationships there has to be some give and take.
• Lack of trust destroys many relationships.
• No statistically significant relationship existed between the occurrences.
• Our research will explore the relationships among these variables.
• She broke off the relationship when she found out about his gambling.
• Some people think only about themselves, even in family relationships.
• The different varieties of the language are in a dynamic relationship with each other.
• The fee bears little relationship to the service provided.
• The focus is on relationships among European countries.
• The play is about power relationships at work.
• The school has a very good relationship with the community.
• Their relationship has always been a stormy one.
• There’s a close relationship between increased money supply and inflation.
• They discovered a relationship between depression and lack of sunlight.
• They enjoyed a close working relationship.
• They established a relationship of trust.
• They have a very healthy father-son relationship.
• We want to improve the relationship that exists between the university and industry.
• What relationship are you to Pat?
• Women and men stand in a different relationship to language.
• the inverse relationship between gas consumption and air temperature
• the relationship of a parasite to its host
• the symbiotic relationship between corals and algae
• their relationship to each other
• I’m not sure of the exact relationship between them—I think they’re cousins.
• She has a love-hate relationship with her job.
• She’s had a series of miserable relationships.
• There is an inverse relationship between disability and social contact.
• a father-son/mother-daughter relationship