indefinite
不定
definition
adjective
they may face indefinite detention
lasting for an unknown or unstated length of time.
translation of 'indefinite'
adjective
广大无边的,
非决定性的,
暗昧,
活络,
不定,
不明确,
暧昧
example
Until recently, though, they failed to do so, and Chapters capitalized on this reluctance by deferring payments - to everyone - for an almost 'indefinite' length.
National alcohol groups said it was one of the most stringent cases of which they had heard - and maybe the first 'indefinite' ban issued for drink offenders.
The Opposition says the 'indefinite' detention of children for the purposes of law enforcement is a national disgrace, and it vows to release all children from detention centres if it wins government.
Undermining fundamental liberties, such as 'indefinite' detention without due process, however, is another matter altogether, one as likely to fuel problems as quell them.
The water is deep here and such a dark blue that the lines of the tiles at the bottom are obscured, 'indefinite' .
The USA Patriot Act must be repudiated, and police-state practices such as 'indefinite' detention and the denial of legal counsel banned.
Likewise, there is an interval of a similarly 'indefinite' length of time between the injection of the remedial serum and the lowering of the speculative fever.
It consists of a memory tape of 'indefinite' length, and a processor which manifests the current state of the machine.
They were introduced in England when the 'indefinite' detention system in England was thrown out by the House of Lords because it offended the human rights principles in the European convention.
He adds, a few lines further on, that this term freedom is an 'indefinite' , and incalculably ambiguous term… liable to an infinity of misunderstandings, confusions and errors.
Miners are threatening an 'indefinite' overtime ban at Kellingley Colliery, near Pontefract, in a dispute over new shift patterns.
Nouns are marked for gender, number, and case as well as for definite and 'indefinite' forms.
On this account, it is the polysemy of the indefinite article that gives rise to the ambiguity of the 'indefinite' noun phrase.
Here it's not even suggested that continuing 'indefinite' detention has anything to do with ‘investigating and preventing subversive activity’.
Readers of the Star Tribune will remain in their cloud of unknowing for the 'indefinite' future.
But should so vague and 'indefinite' a threat to peace be sufficient reason for military intervention?
Certainly, we agree that 'indefinite' detention for the purpose of interrogation is not authorized.
The new crackdown on shoplifting - announced this week - means that anyone caught stealing from any of the town centre's hundreds of stores will receive an automatic ban for an 'indefinite' period.
While bare plurals are ambiguous between the two readings, 'indefinite' singulars can only refer to a rule or a regulation.
Most mainstream politics have capitulated to the normalization of a state of 'indefinite' , vague and continuous low-level war.
The training period is of 'indefinite' length, but graduates are expected to land a middle-management job within three years.
The 'indefinite' detention without trial of foreign nationals under emergency terror laws is incompatible with European human rights laws, the Law Lords have ruled.
Nine Law Lords ruled on Thursday morning that their 'indefinite' detention breached human rights but the government has refused to release the prisoners while it considers its position.
The 'indefinite' detention has affected his mental health.
An 'indefinite' overtime ban by the 21-members also starts today and another one day strike is planned for next week.
The Law Lords ruling stated that 'indefinite' detention without trial of foreign nationals was discriminatory, because it applied only to foreigners and not to British nationals.
A sentence stating that something exists, usually consisting of there, the verb be, and an 'indefinite' noun phrase: There's a tavern in the town.
In most cases, such detail is stored for 'indefinite' lengths of time.
In this intermediate period, especially 'indefinite' determiners seem to be distributed in a quite clearcut way according to the specificity of the referents introduced by the respective noun phrases.
Such matters are embedded in a gray sector of controversy and 'indefiniteness' and are likely to remain so for the next decade, at the very least.
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