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It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.
Mohamed El-Erian

Meaning of "periphery" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PERIPHERY

From Late Latin peripherīa, from Greek, from peri- + pherein to bear.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PERIPHERY

periphery  [pəˈrɪfərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERIPHERY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Periphery is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PERIPHERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Periphery

Periphery may refer to: ▪ Periphery ▪ Periphery, by Periphery ▪ Periphery ▪ Periphery countries, a category of less-developed nations ▪ The suburbs of a town or city...

Definition of periphery in the English dictionary

The first definition of periphery in the dictionary is the outermost boundary of an area. Other definition of periphery is the outside surface of something. Periphery is also the surface or outermost part of the body or one of its organs or parts.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERIPHERY


chaffery
ˈtʃæfərɪ
chiefery
ˈtʃiːfərɪ
housewifery
ˈhaʊsˌwɪfərɪ
leafery
ˈliːfərɪ
midwifery
ˈmɪdˌwɪfərɪ
pilfery
ˈpɪlfərɪ
plerophory
pliːˈrɒfərɪ
puffery
ˈpʌfərɪ
spoofery
ˈspuːfərɪ
sulfury
ˈsʌlfərɪ
sulphury
ˈsʌlfərɪ
wafery
ˈweɪfərɪ
werewolfery
ˈwɛəˌwʊlfərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERIPHERY

peripheral
peripheral device
peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumour
peripheral unit
peripheral vision
peripherality
peripherally
peripheric
peripherical
peripheries
periphonic
periphrase
periphrases
periphrasis
periphrastic
periphrastical
periphrastically
periphytic
periphyton
periplasm

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERIPHERY

archery
ashery
bleachery
butchery
debauchery
feathery
fishery
haberdashery
hatchery
heathery
hery
leathery
lechery
noshery
slithery
sphery
stitchery
treachery
washery
witchery

Synonyms and antonyms of periphery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PERIPHERY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «periphery» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of periphery

Translation of «periphery» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERIPHERY

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

Translator English - Chinese

边缘
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

periferia
570 millions of speakers

English

periphery
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परिधि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

محيط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

периферия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

periferia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পরিধি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

périphérie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pinggiran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Peripherie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

外縁
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

주변
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Periphery
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngoại vi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுற்றளவில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परिघ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çevre
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

periferia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

peryferia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

периферія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

periferie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιφέρεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rand
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

periferin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

periferien
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of periphery

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERIPHERY»

The term «periphery» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.012 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERIPHERY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «periphery» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «periphery» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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8 QUOTES WITH «PERIPHERY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word periphery.
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Warren Bennis
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
2
Gary Cohn
China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters.
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Thomas Dolby
I've been out on the periphery.
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Kathleen Edwards
I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.
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Mohamed El-Erian
It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.
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Leon Krier
A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.
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Miguel Nicolelis
There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or in the periphery, in the inner ear, to restore neurological functions or to control diseases like Parkinson's disease.
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Robert Shapiro
It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERIPHERY»

Discover the use of periphery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to periphery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery
A highly original and theoretically sophisticated typology of capitalism in postsocialist Europe, this book is unique in the breadth and depth of its conceptually coherent and empirically rich comparative analysis.
Dorothee Bohle, Béla Greskovits, 2012
2
Europeanization and the Southern Periphery
This volume explores the concept in a variety of different settings in order to clarify its meaning.
Kevin Featherstone, Geōrgios A. Kazamias, 2001
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Cinema at the Periphery
Therefore, the volume is divided into two key areas: industries and markets on the one hand, and identities and histories on the other.
Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones, Belén Vidal, 2010
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Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, ...
Social Democracy in the Global Periphery focuses on social-democratic regimes in the developing world that have, to varying degrees, reconciled the needs of achieving growth through globalized markets with extensions of political, social ...
Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, 2007
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Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World
This collaborative volume is concerned with long-term social change.
M. J. Rowlands, Mogens Trolle Larsen, Kristian Kristiansen, 1987
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Centre and Periphery: Comparative Studies in Archaeology
Centre and periphery reviews the several alternative parameters of explanation within which archaeologists have attempted to operate, including several of Marxist derivation which are those that perhaps appear to be the most useful in this ...
Tim Champion, 2005
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The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and ...
The Cold War on the Periphery addresses fundamental questions about the global reach of postwar American foreign policy.
Robert J. McMahon, 2013
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Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery
This book studies how Borges constructs a theory of translation that plays a fundamental role in the development of Argentine literature, and which, in turn, expands the potential for writers in Latin America to create new and innovative ...
Sergio Gabriel Waisman, 2005
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Ocular Periphery and Disorders
The peripheral structures are implicated in a number of important diseases, including optic neuritis, thyroid eye disease, and strabismus. The volume offers a basic science background of these topics rather than a strictly clinical focus.
Darlene A. Dartt, Peter Bex, Patricia D’Amore, 2011
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Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery
Why do powerful countries behave in a way that leads to entrapment in prolonged, expensive, and self-defeating conflicts?Jeffrey W. Taliaferro suggests that such interventions are driven by the refusal of senior officials to accept losses ...
Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERIPHERY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term periphery is used in the context of the following news items.
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Atidim Stars go from periphery to IDF elite
Atidim found over the course of its research that the percentage of youth from the periphery serving in elite IDF units was significantly lower than ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
2
Yanks won't trade Severino or Judge for Hamels; Texas, Dodgers lead
... with the Dodgers in the mix, as was written here nine days ago, and the Cubs, Red Sox and some others are believed to be on the periphery. «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
3
A new innovation for Startup Nation: employing Israeli Arabs
They receive benefits as in every town in the periphery. “At first, a building here and a building there in which high-tech companies worked was ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
4
In Yemen, fighting takes center stage ahead of humanitarian truce
Forces loyal to internationally-recognized Yemeni President Adebrabbo Mansour Hadi battled Houthi rebels on the northern periphery of the ... «Deutsche Welle, Jul 15»
5
Schmidt brewery's keg house may become nexus for foodies, farmers
Permanent stalls will line the interior periphery, as will a mezzanine above the main floor. There will be smaller farmers market kiosks in the ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
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Mario Balotelli's life on the edge leaves him asking: why not me any …
... follow him around appear to be toned down these days, because he spends too much time on the periphery. Balotelli, this singular character, ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
7
Healers with herbs, shrubs a vanishing tribe
"Earlier, medicinal plants used to be found on the periphery of farms," said Baranda. "However, with change in our living and eating habits, we ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
8
The Number One Lesson From Greece
That in turn greatly enhances the need for Europe's periphery to ... viable way forward, the European periphery will continue to move backward. «The Market Oracle, Jul 15»
9
Water mafia milking Tuticorin villages
As Tuticorin and its periphery have been getting water once a week or 10 days due to frequent breaches in the pipes from Vallanaadu to the ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
10
Dr Doom condemns cute investment labels
“The core versus the periphery is no longer a meaningful distinction,” says the professor, “because the eurozone periphery is improving faster.”. «Financial Times, Jul 15»

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