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Perspective Situation Investments Year N Location Thinking Attitude

Term perspective (n.)
Synonym a way of seeing from a particular location; a way of thinking about something
Meaning

• Her attitude lends a fresh perspective to the subject.


• He writes from a Marxist perspective.


• Because of its geographical position, Germany's perspective on the situation in Eastern Europe is rather different from Britain's.


• You must keep things in perspective - the overall situation isn't really that bad.


• Total investments for this year reached £53 million, and, to put this into perspective, investments this year were double those made in 2001.


• I'd like to get someone else's perspective on this.


• You're approaching the problem from a completely different perspective.


• In a few years he might have a different perspective.

• Why don't you think of this from a child's perspective?


• When my Mum died it gave me a whole new perspective on life.


• In 15th-century Italy, artists rediscovered the rules of perspective.

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