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The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.
Henry Charles Carey

Meaning of "the system" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE SYSTEM

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WHAT DOES THE SYSTEM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

The System

The System may refer to: ▪ Any system ▪ Any system of government, law, or bureaucracy: political system; used in this way, the phrase may carry negative connotations, depending on context ▪ The System ▪ The System, a strategy in basketball devised by Paul Westhead ▪ Systema, a Russian martial art ▪ Das System, a derogatory term used by Nazi Germany to contemptuously denote the Weimar Republic...

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE SYSTEM

the states
the Stationery Office
the status quo
the Steppes
the story goes
the Strand
the strap
the strings
the struggle
the sublime
the subsidiariat
the Sudan
the supernatural
the support
the supreme sacrifice
the surreal
the Swanz
the Swedish
the sword
the taal

WORDS THAT END LIKE THE SYSTEM

alarm system
audio system
central nervous system
computer system
control system
cooling system
digestive system
ecosystem
heating system
immune system
legal system
nervous system
one-party system
operating system
respiratory system
solar system
sound system
stem
subsystem
system
water system

Synonyms and antonyms of the system in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «THE SYSTEM»

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

Translation of «the system» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE SYSTEM

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

Translator English - Chinese

系统
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

el sistema
570 millions of speakers

English

the system
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रणाली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النظام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

система
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

o sistema
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পদ্ধতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le système
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

sistem
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

das System
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

システム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

시스템
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sistem
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hệ thống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அமைப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रणाली
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sistem
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

il sistema
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

System
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

система
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sistemul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

το σύστημα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die stelsel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

systemet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

systemet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the system

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE SYSTEM»

The term «the system» is very widely used and occupies the 4.557 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE SYSTEM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «the system» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «the system» 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 the system

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10 QUOTES WITH «THE SYSTEM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the system.
1
Michael Arndt
The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.
2
Jeremy Bentham
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
3
Jerry Brown
We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.
4
Alexander Calder
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
5
Henry Charles Carey
The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.
6
Leslie Caron
I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.
7
Katie Cassidy
I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!'
8
Iris Chang
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
9
William E. Conway, Jr.
Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.
10
Kool Moe Dee
I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE SYSTEM»

Discover the use of the system in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the system and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
Filled with mind-blowing details of major NCAA football scandals, with stops at Ohio State, Tennessee, Texas Tech, Missouri, BYU, LSU, Texas A&M and many more, The System explores and exposes the complex, and perhaps broken, machine that ...
Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian, 2013
2
The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
A revelatory account based on the authors' unprecedented access to the NCAA's highest-level programs throughout the 2012 season describes its high-powered system of billion-dollar television deals, high-priced coaches, football "hostessing, ...
Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian, 2013
3
The System of Comics
This edition of Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics makes available in English a groundbreaking work on comics by one of the medium's foremost scholars.
Thierry Groensteen, 2007
4
Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and ...
Work The System aims to convince people to change their fundamental perception of the world around them from a vision of an impenetrable, amorphous conglomeration, to one made up of individual linear systems, each of which can be improved ...
Sam Carpenter, 2011
5
The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education
Mr. Tyack has placed his colorful, wide-ranging view of history within a broad new framework drawn from the most recent work in history, sociology, and political science.
David B. Tyack, 1974
6
Le Système Des Objets
" Finally,Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit andadvertising for the commodification of everyday life.
Jean Baudrillard, 2005
7
A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System: Lessons for ...
In this volume, three generations of scholars and policy makers, some of whom participated in the 1944 conference, consider how the Bretton Woods System contributed to unprecedented economic stability and rapid growth for 25 years and ...
Michael D. Bordo, Barry Eichengreen, 2007
8
The Broom of the System: A Novel
Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.
David Foster Wallace, 2004
9
The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked
Argues that although U.S. foreign policy failed with regard to the Vietnam War, the decision making processes worked
Leslie H. Gelb, 2001
10
Japan: The System That Soured: The Rise and Fall of the ...
And why do Japan's leaders still deny the gravity of the situation? As this book explains, the root of Japan's problem is that it's economy and politics are still mired in the patterns of the 1950s-1960s.
John Gay Barbara Bloom Lloyd University of Cambridge African Studies Centre, Richard Katz, 1998

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE SYSTEM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the system is used in the context of the following news items.
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Internet providers launch controversial Copyright Alert System
The conceit is that the system is just "informing" users that they are illegally trafficking content. "When people share digital files, they can violate copyright law ... «The Verge, Feb 13»
2
Whoa! Earthlike planet in Alpha Centauri system
The Alpha Centauri system – the nearest star system to Earth, only 4.3 ... At night, the other large star in the system, Alpha Centauri A, would be brilliant in its sky, ... «EarthSky, Oct 12»

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