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combination Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 the mixture you get when two or more things are combined:
- Strawberries and cream - a perfect combination.
- A combination of tiredness and boredom caused me to fall asleep.
- This drug can be safely used in combination with other medicines.
- Her experience and energy are a winning combination (= a successful mixture) in business.
- From the letters X Y Z, we can get three combinations of two letters: XY, XZ, and YZ.
- He forgot the combination for his bike lock.
1 a mixture obtained when two or more things are combined:
- [ C ] Green is a combination of blue and yellow.
- [ C ] A combination of tiredness and boredom made me doze off in class.
- We'll be working in combination with (= together with) two other departments on this project.
2 a result of two or more things joining together:
- a combination of sth and sth A combination of economic slowdown and tax cuts is having a drastic effect on public finances.
- New technologies work particularly well when they are used in combination with traditional classroom learning.

Champagne and caviar make a wonderful combination.
The school uses a combination of modern and traditional methods for teaching reading.
She wears the most hideous colour combinations you could ever imagine.
The bride's mother was wearing a horrible combination of green and yellow.
That combination of tiredness and alcohol is extremely dangerous.
Only two people know the combination for the safe.
It was designed to facilitate the combination of qualitative methods with statistical analysis.
The generalizations are advanced on the basis of statistical data from the population census of 1897 in combination with other quantitative and qualitative sources.