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• n  a person related by blood or marriage
  police are searching for relatives of the deceased
• n  an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
• a  estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete
  a relative stranger
• s  properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'
  earnings relative to production

• Or he could forgo those relative newcomers and instead try to underscore his own experience by tapping former governor, businessman and Olympics organizer Mitt Romney of .
• It was, after all, not easy to be brought from relative obscurity to the relative glory of a vice-presidential candidacy, only to face the prospect of being flung down again.
• As a relative state, happiness is what psychologists call our "subjective well-being" and, fortunately for us, it is a state that we can actively change for the better.

• relation
• congener
• congenator
• congeneric
• comparative
• proportional

• absolute

News & Articles

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• Official who stole $450,000 from mosquito district gave her Menlo Park home to relative to avoid restitution, suit says
  The San Mateo County Mosquito and Vector Control District is suing a former finance director who stole at least $450,000 from it because she gifted her Menlo Park home to a relative while owing the agency restitution.
  June 13, 2013 - San Jose Mercury News
• Immunomedics Reports That UCB Announces New Results From Phase 2B Open-Label Extension Study Evaluating the Long-Term ...
  -- Relative to the 12-week, double-blind EMBLEM(TM) study, primary outcome data from the open-label extension identified no new safety or tolerability signals1 -- Relative to EMBLEM(TM) baseline, secondary ...
  June 13, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Relative arrested in Vt. home invasion, stabbing
  Vermont State Police have arrested a relative in the beating and stabbing of a farm worker in Whiting. Police said 30-year-old Efrain Jimez DelaCruze arrived at a hospital emergency room in Middlebury on Thursday. He said he was asleep when two men hit him with metal pipes and stabbed him with a knife. There was no robbery, and state police said they believed the incident was directed only at ...
  June 10, 2013 - WPTZ Burlington

Quotes

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• Joe Biden in Los Angeles Times
  Look, Israel can determine for itself -- it's a sovereign nation -- what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else,Biden replied.
• Richard Galanti in USA Today
  Overall, the near-term economic outlook has weakened relative to the projections released by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) at the end of January. It now appears likely that real gross domestic product (GDP) will not grow much, if at all,... Ben Bernanke http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEsTNLK-7-f3R5-thHohB-P27CEdw Hindu http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200804022072.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH88TRGu9czBNtIHM7SNSa33_prAQ Apr 2, 2008 82200 109938 relative The philosophy of the board, in terms of compensating executives, is that we are fairly paid, if not slightly underpaid, relative to other corporate peers," Richard Galanti, the company's chief financial officer and a director, said in an...