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PRONUNCIATION OF ASSORTIVE

assortive  [əˈsɔːtɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ASSORTIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Assortive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ASSORTIVE


abortive
əˈbɔːtɪv
accretive
əˈkriːtɪv
assertive
əˈsɜːtɪv
completive
kəmˈpliːtɪv
constitutive
ˈkɒnstɪˌtjuːtɪv
contortive
kənˈtɔːtɪv
dilutive
daɪˈluːtɪv
distortive
dɪsˈtɔːtɪv
exertive
ɪɡˈzɜːtɪv
expletive
ɪkˈspliːtɪv
extortive
ɪkˈstɔːtɪv
furtive
ˈfɜːtɪv
retortive
rɪˈtɔːtɪv
self-assertive
ˌsɛlfəˈsɜːtɪv
sportive
ˈspɔːtɪv
substitutive
ˈsʌbstɪˌtjuːtɪv
suppletive
səˈpliːtɪv
supportive
səˈpɔːtɪv
tortive
ˈtɔːtɪv
transportive
trænsˈpɔːtɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ASSORTIVE

associatively
associativity
associator
associatory
assoil
assoilment
assoilzie
assonance
assonant
assonantal
assonate
assort
assortative
assortatively
assorted
assortedness
assorter
assortment
assot
assott

WORDS THAT END LIKE ASSORTIVE

active
alternative
automotive
competitive
convertive
cooperative
creative
divertive
effective
executive
in the negative
interactive
native
negative
nonassertive
overassertive
perspective
positive
relative
revertive

Synonyms and antonyms of assortive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «assortive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ASSORTIVE

Find out the translation of assortive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of assortive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «assortive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

assortive
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

assortive
570 millions of speakers

English

assortive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

assortive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متلائق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

assortive
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

assortive
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

assortive
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

assortive
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Assortive
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

assortive
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

assortive
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

assortive
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Assortive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

assortive
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

assortive
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मिश्रणाकृती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

assortive
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

assortive
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

assortive
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

assortive
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

assortive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

assortive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

doelbewuste
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

assortive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

assortive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of assortive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSORTIVE»

The term «assortive» is used very little and occupies the 192.749 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSORTIVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about assortive

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASSORTIVE»

Discover the use of assortive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to assortive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Assortive Matching of Borrowers and Lenders: Evidence from ...
The data set comes from a survey of rural entrepreneurs and a series of case studies about non-bank and informal lending technologies in three rural areas of Mexico.
Susana Sanchez-Schwarz, 1996
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The Journal of Experimental Zoology
of the animals in proper physiological condition for reproduction are simultaneously brought near together; 3) the immunity of the adults, and of their egg ribbons; and 4) the practice of assortive mating with respect to size. Concerning the last of ...
Ross Granville Harrison, William Keith Brooks, 1919
3
Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication
Assortive mating, which implies the tendency of certain conditions to be brought together in reproduction with greater ... In the genus Leptinotarsa assortive mating is found in the habit that extreme individuals have of showing a strong tendency ...
4
An Investigation of Evolution in Chrysomelid Beetles of the ...
Assortive mating, which implies the tendency of certain conditions to be brought together in reproduction with greater ... In the genus Leptinotarsa assortive mating is found in the habit that extreme individuals have of showing a strong tendency ...
William Lawrence Tower, 1906
5
Marriages & Families: Making Choices in a Diverse Society: ...
... would be alone (Epstein, Evans, and Evans 1994). ASSORTIVE MATING ... Social psychologists call this process assortive mating. As an example of assortive mating, we saw earlier in this chapter. Copyright 2006 Thomson Learning, Inc. All ...
Mary Ann Lamanna, Agnes Riedmann, 2005
6
Family Communication
Assortive Matching for Psychosocial Variables: Role and Leisure Preferences, Communication Values, and Psychological Qualities Houts et al. (1996) argue that how individuals match up with regard to internal, psychosocial variables is ...
Chris Segrin, Jeanne Flora, 2014
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SARS in Context: Memory, History, and Policy
In interesting and illustrative research, Dow and Philipson look at the issue of assortive matching in the transmission of HIV.4 Most formal epidemiological modelling appears to assume that in cases where transmission requires one-on- one ...
Jacalyn Duffin, Arthur Sweetman, 2006
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Introduction to Conservation Genetics
Assortive. and. dissortive. mating. The preferential mating of like-with-like genotypes is called assortive (or assortative) mating, while the mating of unlike genotypes is referred to as dissortive (or disassortative) mating. In general, assortive ...
Richard Frankham, David Anthony Briscoe, Jonathan D. Ballou, 2002
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The Economic Approach to Human Behavior
Assertive Mating, Inequality, and Natural Selection I pointed out in Part I that positive assortive mating of different traits reduces the variation in these traits between children in the same family (and this is one benefit-of such mating). Positive ...
Gary S. Becker, 1976
10
Handbook of Development Economics
some could reflect better connections and some could reflect positive assortive mating in marriage and thus represent unobserved individual human capital. Behrman, Birdsall and Deolalikar (1991) exploit the idea that with assortive mating in ...
Hollis Burnley Chenery, T. N. Srinivasan, Jere R. Behrman, 1988

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASSORTIVE»

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Income Inequality Is the New Economic Issue
There's also the theory of “assortive mating,” he says, with female earners marrying men with similar wealth potential. [DATE MINE: Wealth ... «U.S. News & World Report, May 15»
2
Twenty percent of Oregon mothers stay home with children
First is "assortive mating." People are increasingly likely to marry someone with similar educational achievement, he said, so women with ... «Statesman Journal, Jun 14»
3
Love in the time of inequality
... known as assortive mating. During America's brief burst of egalitarianism in the postwar period, social distinctions between income brackets ... «Al Jazeera America, May 14»
4
Commentary: Working Women Explain Much Of The Change Since …
What would the distribution of household income look like if women did not engage in assortive mating and instead chose mates at random? «St. Louis Public Radio, Mar 14»
5
Penn economist links 'assortive mating' and income inequality
Income inequality in the United States is widening in part because of “assortive mating,” says a Penn economist—the tendency for high-income, ... «Penn Current, Feb 14»
6
Marriage Pattern Known as 'Assortive Mating' Has Increased Income …
A team of economists at University of Pennsylvania have an interesting theory when it comes to figuring out one of the (many) reasons why ... «Bustle, Jan 14»
7
A Note on Marriage: Explaining why Anglo Texas women are …
Marital political correspondence could be a product of (1) assortive mating, that is self-selection as we saw in the dating example above; ... «Austin American-Statesman, Jan 14»
8
Political polarization and the American public: From geography to …
... ideological tails will be almost 2 times greater in 5 generations and 2.5 times greater in 25 generations merely as a result of assortive mating. «Journalist's Resource, Oct 13»
9
Where to go for your MBA if you want to find love
Murray is an exponent of assortive mating – the concept that the best breed with the best, and the rest be damned. Intelligent people are having ... «eFinancialCareers, Sep 13»
10
A dating website for the narcissist in all of us
Launched in 2011, Bloom's dating site is based on studies of positive assortive mating. Researchers took physical measurements of married ... «MetroNews Canada, Mar 13»

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