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Mention Things Activity Institution Involves Aims I Leadership

query
When you mention the things that an activity or institution is a____, you are saying what it involves or what its aims are.When you mention the things that an activity or institution is about, you are saying what it involves or what its aims are.
Leadership is about the ability to implement change.
word about
full-definition
preposition
You use about to introduce who or what something relates to or concerns.
She came in for a coffee, and told me about her friend Shona.
She knew a lot about food.
The neighbours complained about the noise.
...advice about exercise and diet.
When you mention the things that an activity or institution is about, you are saying what it involves or what its aims are.
Leadership is about the ability to implement change.
You use about after some adjectives to indicate the person or thing that a feeling or state of mind relates to.
'I'm sorry about Patrick,' she said.
I feel so guilty and angry about the whole issue.
If you do something about a problem, you take action in order to solve it.
Rachel was going to do something about Jacob.
Of course there may be some problems you can't do anything about.
When you say that there is a particular quality about someone or something, you mean that they have this quality.
There was a warmth and passion about him I never knew existed.
I think there's something a little peculiar about the results of your test.
If you put something about a person or thing, you put it around them.
Helen threw her arms about him.
She was elegantly dressed with a double strand of pearls about her neck.
adverb
About is used in front of a number to show that the number is not exact .
In my local health centre there's about forty parking spaces.
The rate of inflation is running at about 2.7 percent.
If someone or something moves about, they keep moving in different directions.
Everyone was running about.
He wandered about the town stopping to listen to bands.
His hair was drifting about his shoulders like dirty snow.
adjective
If someone or something is about, they are present or available .
There's lots of money about these days for schemes like this.
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