0 present participle of cultivate
1 to prepare land and grow crops on it, or to grow a particular crop:
2 to try to develop and improve something:
She has cultivated an image as a tough negotiator.
The new prime minister is cultivating relationships with East Asian countries.
And where scientific approaches tend to narrow down, insisting on procedural and stylistic conformity, performative ones sprout out, cultivating procedural and stylistic originality.
It also provided a positive alternative to local youth cultures, which young women experienced as dominated by young men cultivating a hard and sexualised masculinity.
By 1961 he had rid himself of his intellectual, bespectacled look, cultivating instead a more friendly look in order to find a wider '^ ' audience.
That is, not through the suppression of their own ethnic and social identities but by consciously cultivating and maintaining ethnic networks and systems.
It meant opting for and cultivating a positivistically orientated scientific ethos, for an emancipation from the ethos of the party soldier.
When would it have been the most useful in cultivating desirable affiliations or quelling potential animosities between groups?
In the hope of cultivating research in this domain, we offer a range of avenues that we see as particularly important targets for future research.
The producers there are described as poor and ageing farmers typically cultivating less than one hectare, who are facing an uncertain future.
