Glossary entry

Arabic term or phrase:

اختصر المسافات

English translation:

abridge the distances

Added to glossary by Liliane Hatem
Aug 4, 2016 06:53
7 yrs ago
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Arabic term

اختصر المسافات

Arabic to English Bus/Financial Education / Pedagogy أمثال
يوم عمل عن بعد -اختصر المسافات
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Aug 9, 2016 07:46: Liliane Hatem Created KOG entry

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abridge the distances

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1134839472
Iain Chambers, ‎Lidia Curti - 2002 - ‎Art
In this manner we may abridge the distances and trespass the ultimate barrier ... 1 Aime Cesaire, 'Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal', in C. Eshelman and A.

www.mpsaz.org/mtnview/staff/...2/.../vocabulary_words.docx
Mesa Public Schools
Unbridled – (Un`bri´dled) (adj.) ..... to the UN (United Nations) ..... Some see in TV's power to abridge the distances separating the world's peoples the means of ...

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Abridge - definition of abridge by The Free Dictionary
www.thefreedictionary.com/abridge
Each of them given up to his personal reflections, and constructing his future after his own fashion, was, above all, anxious to abridge the distance by speed.

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I can not open the second reference. Can you please email me where it occurred as doc. file. Thank you so much.
Peer comment(s):

agree Morano El-Kholy
7 hrs
Thank you Morano :)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you so much for the references. You are brilliant Liliane Hatem. I appreciate your feedback."
10 mins
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36 mins

bridge/ shorten

HTH
Peer comment(s):

agree Oz Hamdoun (X) : Shorten
6 hrs
agree Morano El-Kholy : Yes, shorten.
10 hrs
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+2
14 hrs

shrink the distance

Or, possibly, 'forget the long commute'.
Peer comment(s):

agree Sayed Fathy : You have a the sense
23 hrs
agree Randa Farhat : Spare yourself the commute
1 day 16 hrs
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18 days

Pintaskan jalan; persingkat jarak

خليك تختصر المسافات؛ جعل المسافات البعيدة أقصر
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