0 a large case for carrying clothes while travelling, especially one that opens out into two parts
1 consisting of a wide range of things that are considered as a single thing:
Stump discusses three main phenomena : ' portmanteau ' rule blocks, parallel blocks and reversible blocks.
We are willing to countenance a restricted group of local experiments, but not portmanteau powers.
Suppose one is carrying a case, a parcel or portmanteau, and that a number of personal and confidential letters are carried in it.
The question of how to fill this portmanteau is very important.
They are similar in that they are portmanteau provisions; that is to say, they are susceptible of unlimited expansion in the future.
Both these two portmanteau provisions have similarities and also differences.
Here we are using a portmanteau phrase in order basically to save time and complication.
I think that he will accept that that is rather a portmanteau way of describing the matter.
