individual1 adjectiveindividual2 noun
individualin‧di‧vid‧u‧al1 /ˌɪndəˈvɪdʒuəl◂/ ●●○ S3 W3 AWL adjective 
WORD ORIGINindividual1
Origin:
1400-1500 Medieval Latin individualis, from Latin individuus ‘undividable’, from dividere; ➔ DIVIDE1EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Individual tickets for Red Sox games go on sale this morning.
- a tennis player with a completely individual style
- an individual serving of mashed potatoes
- Each individual employee was given a bonus.
- Every baby has its own, individual personality.
- He has his own individual method of organizing his work.
- She dresses in a highly individual way.
- The children get far more individual attention in these small classes.
- After this review process, budget analysts consolidate the individual department budgets into operating and capital budget summaries.
- But also at work are the varied purposes of the individual employees.
- How rugs are measured depends on the individual country.
- How such paradoxical objectives are handled will depend upon the individual counsellor.
- Imagine now that a customer of an individual bank applies successfully for an overdraft.
- In two of the studies the details of the individual patients are not reported.
- The Roman script was phonetic and the book consisted of a series of dialogues, building up with phrases rather than individual words.
Longman Language Activatorcompletely different from anyone or anything else
different, special, or unusual and the only one of its kind: · The book is certainly very rare, and possibly unique.· the unique wildlife of the Galapagos Islandsunique among: · The power of speech makes the human race unique among animals.
something that is distinctive has a special feature or appearance that makes it different from other things, and makes it easy to recognize: · Male birds have distinctive blue and yellow markings.· Whatever you think of Larkin's poetry, it's certainly distinctive.distinctive feature (of something): · The most distinctive feature of the building is its enormous dome-shaped roof.
if something is the only one of its kind , it is the only one that exists: · The 22-bedroomed clinic will be the only one of its kind in Ireland.
someone or something that is one of a kind is different because they are the only one to exist or be made: · Marilyn Monroe was one of a kind. There's no such thing as 'the new Monroe'.· Each tile is a work of art, guaranteed one of a kind by the handprint of its maker.
an individual style, way of doing things etc is different from anyone else's and is often fairly unusual: · Every baby has its own, individual personality.· a tennis player with a completely individual stylehighly individual: · She dresses in a highly individual way.
especially British to be so different or unusual that people cannot expect to find anything or meet anyone like them again: · I was really upset when I lost that hat. It was a one-off -- I'll never find another like it.· Doug's achieved a lot with very limited resources. There's no doubt that he's a one-off.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Each individual leaf on the tree is different. You can have the bathroom designed to suit your individual needs.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Genes operate together in determining the characteristics of an individual organism. Seven police and three private individuals needed medical attention.
Each individual leaf on the tree is different. You can have the bathroom designed to suit your individual needs.· Decisions like this are a matter for the individual conscience.
(=between one person and another)· We respect the children’s individual differences.
· Our personal freedom is being restricted more and more.
· This is the largest amount ever paid for a single item of jewellery.
· Any law that increases police power may be seen as a threat to individual liberty.
Genes operate together in determining the characteristics of an individual organism.· This partnership can take a variety of forms, depending on individual preferences.
Seven police and three private individuals needed medical attention.· You have to be mentally tough to compete in individual sports.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Precedent counts for much, especially in the dreadfully slow handling of individual cases.· There is no need to deny the importance of existential affirmation as the locus of meaning in individual cases.· They emphasised that it was the circumstances of the individual case which led them to reject charges of degrading or inhuman treatment.· Mr. Redwood I do not intend to comment on individual cases before the courts.· But, except by private or hybrid Bills, Parliament does not legislate for individual cases.· Indeed it can still be found in our own time, in some individual cases but also in new forms of patronage.· The diagonal group is treated as individual cases.
· Several prospective studies have shown improvement in linear growth in individual children with nutritional restitution.· Such interests, unique to the individual child, often reflect disequilibrium and are affectively charged sources of motivation.· The second solution is to regard linguistic knowledge or competence as a characteristic of the individual child.· It essentially involved asking individual children carefully selected questions and noting their responses and their reasoning for those responses.· In the Health Study, individual children were randomly assigned either vitamin A or placebo.· Activities are not necessarily presented according to the interests of individual children.· In other words, individual children have very different educational experiences, both at an ideological and at a resource level.· No interviews were held with individual children, though some data were collected through chats with individuals in the library.
· It has never lost an artist from its record label, supposedly because it consists of many small and friendly individual companies.· These centers provide education and experiences to apprentices that the individual companies can not.· They are trained on short training sessions run by the individual companies.· It also assigned staff people to work with individual companies that wanted to launch a program.· They argue for the primacy of collective bargaining at the level of the individual company.· Some are a result of our national mentality, but some are specific to individual companies.· A number of actuaries are responsible for individual company pension schemes with funds amounting to hundreds of millions of pounds.· But there may be problems getting individual companies to follow suit.
· For an individual country, acting alone, huge efforts will make little difference.· In many individual countries, Catholics use contraceptives at rates equal to or higher than do adherents of other faiths.· How rugs are measured depends on the individual country.· What is true in individual countries has also been true globally.· Additional information includes tables of weights and measures and basic and commercial information on individual countries.· Because of our comparative approach, we must regretfully bypass interesting problems within the individual countries.· Unless there is action both by individual countries and by international organisations, it will not happen.· A third hypothesis can be derived from our analysis, this time concerning the share of intraindustry trade for individual countries.
· But, as will be seen shortly, this individual freedom has limits.· Restriction strikes hard at the sense of individual freedom that is essential to an innovative environment.· One argument is that excessive government expenditure adversely affects individual freedom and choice.· It's about individual freedom of thought.· Extension of the individual freedom of conscience decisions to business corporations strains the rationale of these cases to the breaking point.· Radicalism can mean conserving what needs to be guarded, like our attenuated traditions of individual freedom.· In both, individual freedom dominates community obligations.
· Everyone, it seems, wants individual investors.· Indeed, some of the largest institutional money managers catering to wealthy individual investors advertise tax-related investment strategies based on computer models.· This requirement alone would preclude most individual investors from using such models.· The goal is to make the market much fairer for individual investors.· However, in all countries, individual investors also have an important duty of care.· The principle underlying the programs was that these agencies could better assess and charge for credit quality than individual investors.· Just under 50 percent will be available for the individual investor if demand warrants.· Names, as individual investors in the insurance market are known, will vote on the proposals this spring.
· But the central principles for us are individual liberty and personal fulfilment.· At the most, therefore, one can only inquire whether individual liberty was increasing in fact, or not.· Does this incursion upon individual liberty without consent serve a worthwhile purpose or rest upon some important principle?· Attempts to force equality are unacceptable also because they directly undermine individual liberty, a value of far greater importance.· These measures are an important extension of consumers' rights and some safeguard of individual liberty.· A libertarian society was seen as one which was based on individual liberty.· The result is a muddle in which police efficiency and individual liberty are two certain losers.· The value of individual liberty is not absolute, but is subject to the authority of established government.
· The objectives will be personal to the individual members.· When an organization as a whole is engaged in the process of denial, its individual members often follow suit.· But it does so at a high price, both for the organization and its individual members.· There are two trio collective compositions and the other seven pieces are by individual members of the group.· Photographic Collections held by individual members of staff.· Even so, the conventions of the group inevitably overrule the preferences of individual members.· It is for individual members and their firms to decide what subject matter is useful and relevant to their needs.
· Clearly, individual gains, in terms of meeting individual needs, have important collective consequences in a trade union.· And each business should choose its set carefully, to fit its individual needs.· The time we spend attending to these individual needs is bound to vary somewhat.· How far can programs such as legally mandated parental leaves go toward meeting the individual needs of employers and families?· Instruction Instruction is informal and tailored to individual needs.· All instructions should be paced and adapted to the individual needs of each woman and her baby.· Instruction Coaching is informal and tailored to individual needs, though novice instruction may be interrupted occasionally by stronger winds.· The main focus, contrary to scientific management theory, was on individual needs and not on the needs of the organization.
· The rivalry between individual organism and group of organisms for the vehicle role, being a real rivalry, can be settled.· That is, Gaian homeostasis originates in the local activity of individual organisms.· As it happens the outcome, in my view, is a decisive victory for the individual organism.· The population dynamics emerges from the interactions among the individual organisms.· This is because it is second nature for them to pose their questions at the level of the individual organism.· Because the individual organisms vary, some are bound to be better able to survive in particular circumstances than others.· By 1841, he had very probably worked out, also, his later theory of individual organism generation: pangenesis.
· Sarah is completely focused on the needs of individual pupils instead of being centred on a particular area.· Seven teachers of widely differing experience each taught five one-hour lessons to an individual pupil while being recorded on videotape.· This section too starts with a premise, which is that individual pupils are active participants in their own education.· Being a school photographer means being employed by a firm that contracts to do school / class / individual pupil photographs.· The good restricted professional is sensitive to the development of individual pupils, an inventive teacher and a skilful class-manager.· Funding based on age-related pupil numbers may not run to small groups and bespoke programmes for individual pupils.
· People who otherwise consider individual responsibility the pinnacle of virtue seem unable to perceive an individual responsibility to protect an endangered planet.· But it also diminishes individual responsibilities and all but guarantees that organizational performance will remain consistently low.· People who otherwise consider individual responsibility the pinnacle of virtue seem unable to perceive an individual responsibility to protect an endangered planet.· We talk of the individual consumer, individual professional responsibilities, individual responsibilities within the family, and so on.· And it prompted the ideas of individual responsibility, dignity, and equality that are the pride of capitalism.· Polybius pursues the search for individual responsibilities where non-Roman kings and leaders are concerned.· Clinton emphasized the spirit of community and Watts stressed individual responsibility.
· For example in June, the percentage of pupils absent in individual schools ranged from 0% to 44% of the school roll.· Some individual schools offered one-page profiles.· As with most averages, these percentages conceal a degree of variation between individual schools.· Uneven Commitment Level Companies often discover that the capacity and interest of individual schools to work with employers differ.· It concludes that intensive analysis of individual schools and classrooms is required.· In the meantime, he suggested local authorities and individual schools might introduce their own schemes.· These documents would form the basis of development plans worked out by each individual school.· Governors of individual schools needed to be at the same level of understanding and acceptance of what was being planned.
· It is a personal activity at best, an aid to the individual teacher, the individual child and the parents.· And governmental immunity may protect some school districts, but it is not a defense for individual teachers.· One other scheme allowed for one-to-one tests but left the decision about including them to individual teachers.· Merit pay for individual teachers, to cite one example, just sets teacher against teacher and undermines morale.· Thus subject departments and individual teachers are to be involved in forming curriculum policies rather than having rights over such policies.· We will fully fund individual teacher costs.
WORD FAMILYnounindividualindividualityadjectiveindividualindividualizedverbindividualizeadverbindividually
1[only before noun] considered separately from other people or things in the same group: Each individual leaf on the tree is different. the needs of the individual customer2[only before noun] belonging to or intended for one person rather than a group: Children get more individual attention in small classes. You can have the bathroom designed to suit your individual needs. individual portions of jam3an individual style, way of doing things etc is different from anyone else’s – usually used to show approval SYN distinctive: a tennis player with a highly individual style a very individual way of dressingindividual1 adjectiveindividual2 noun
individualindividual2 ●●○ S3 W3 AWL noun [countable] EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Effects of the drug vary from individual to individual.
- It is the responsibility of each individual within the class to make sure they have the correct books.
- Mandy's a real individual.
- The decision to have an operation should be up to the individual involved.
- Even if the public had the necessary information, there was nothing any one individual could have done about fixing the system.
- For Pateman, participatory democracy hinges on the premise that individuals and their institutions can not be placed apart.
- How familiar the class or individuals in the class, are with the microcomputer. 5.
- Just as both individuals can lose, if proper timely action is taken, both can also win.
- Many individuals choose to walk away from a promising situation rather than restore a damaged relation-ship.
- Personality Personality can be broadly defined as the propensities within an individual to act a certain way, given a particular context.
Longman Language Activatora person
· I think Sue's a really nice person.· He's the only person I know who can speak Chinese.· There were over 200 people at the meeting.· The streets were suddenly full of people.
a person - use this when you do not know who the person is, or when it is not important to say who it is: · Someone phoned you but I didn't get their name.· What would you do if somebody tried to rob you in the street?someone else/somebody else (=another person): · Can't you get someone else to clean the kitchen for you?
a person - use this when you are comparing people with animals or machines: · The drug had never before been tested on a human being.· Computers have replaced humans in many factories.
a person - use this especially when you are talking about responsibility or choice: · It is the responsibility of each individual within the class to make sure they have the correct books.· The decision to have an operation should be up to the individual involved.
a person who seems strange, interesting etc: · A couple of suspicious-looking characters were standing outside the house.· Beneath his brash, noisy exterior was a much shrewder and lonelier character than he admitted.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meanings 1 & 2adjectives Genes operate together in determining the characteristics of an individual organism. Seven police and three private individuals needed medical attention.
· Ordinary individuals need no more than 3–5 grams of salt per day.
· He had taken a group of talented individuals and built a superb team.
(=with unusually good qualities)· We need a few outstanding individuals to act as leaders.
(=a person, not a company or business)· Few shares in the company are owned by private individuals.
· The writer is addressing a general reader rather than a particular individual.
(=one person on their own)· Equipment of this kind is not something a single individual could afford.
(=a wealthy person)· Large ranches are often owned by corporations or wealthy individuals.
(=ones who are specially chosen for something)· Selected individuals were invited to the dinner.
(=one on their own, not in a group with others)· Society does not consist of isolated individuals.
(=people who share the same opinions)· The message board is a forum where like-minded individuals can communicate.
phrases· Each student must be treated as an individual.
· We need to perform as a team rather than a group of individuals.
· The fitness program is adapted to the needs of the individual.
· The rights of the individual must be protected.
· We live in a society which prizes the freedom of the individual.
· The policies are based on respect for the individual.
(=everyone is different)· Individuals vary in their ability to adapt to change.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· Decisions like this are a matter for the individual conscience.
(=between one person and another)· We respect the children’s individual differences.
· Our personal freedom is being restricted more and more.
· This is the largest amount ever paid for a single item of jewellery.
· Any law that increases police power may be seen as a threat to individual liberty.
Genes operate together in determining the characteristics of an individual organism.· This partnership can take a variety of forms, depending on individual preferences.
Seven police and three private individuals needed medical attention.· You have to be mentally tough to compete in individual sports.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· And it is unclear how certain individuals, namely Marxists, transcend false consciousness.· Well, these dullish facts can mean a lot to certain individuals at certain times.· You should not exceed this amount because iron can be toxic in certain individuals.· But there is no doubt that media depictions of violence sometimes have influenced certain individuals to act out what they saw.· Many karate movements suit certain individuals more than others.· They must never blame themselves for what happens, if the cat reacts fearfully to certain individuals or certain specific conditions.· Rather it is a characteristic that marked certain groups, individuals and movements during the first half of the twentieth century.· However, following the campaign of certain organisations and individuals like Jaqueline Drake, things are looking up.
· It is widely distributed in space among different individuals, and widely distributed in time over many generations.· Different part of the terrain was visited. Different individuals marked with the white smoke.· To some extent, this will be inevitable in any organisation made up of different individuals.· Causes, symptoms and tactics of conflict Conflict may be caused by differences in the objectives of different groups or individuals.· Growth occurred in bursts, with different individuals beginning and ceasing growth at all stages within the growing season.· The police tend to operate with different expectations of individuals from different social backgrounds.· The assumption is that organisations are made up of different types of individuals who have different motives.· The main emphasis is on the various ways that these relationships may pattern and establish expectations and opportunities for different individuals.
· In other collaborative activities individuals take turns in sitting vigilantly alert while others feed, thereby functioning as watchdogs or guards.· Several other individual and household characteristics could be examined for their influence upon probabilities of early childhood survival.· This particular crab grabbed the other individual and forced it out of its shell.· She is almost an inch long, twice the length of any other individual in her army.· In effect they confer on the individual a sphere of immunity against interference by the state, other organisations and other individuals.· The emphasis here is on the individual's capacity to understand and interpret what other individuals mean by their social actions.· There is, however, one other option where individuals can contribute, and that is recycling.· Steer them away from attacking other individuals in terms of personalities.
· Early experience with particular individuals is not the only source of variation in adults' mating preferences.· Particular towns can specialize, just as particular individuals can.· It does not require it to take care of particular individual or sectional interests, since these will often conflict.· Any competent adult has the absolute right to refuse to be examined by any particular individual.· In any particular organization individuals bring in these anxieties from their inner, phantasy worlds.· She saw only the immediate need of a particular individual and tried to meet it then and there.· He may be required to report to a particular individual or place at regular intervals as part of a monitoring process.· These factors do not reveal why these particular individuals devoted their lives to political causes.
· Clive's estimate was that the Company and various private individuals made £3m. out of the change of rulers.· There were a disturbing number of private individuals who called in to say they hoped he would not be a candidate.· Where a government body seeks an injunction against a private individual or corporation, the position may be different.· So the best way in for most private individuals is through insurance funds, investment trusts or unit trusts.· It was too expensive for most private individuals there to send telegrams; the network was used almost exclusively by the authorities.· Advertisers masquerading as private individuals will be liable to prosecution.· Prosecutions brought by determined private individuals may present greater problems.· It is an expression of alliance between groups of kin rather than a short-term arrangement between two private individuals.
· Usually, only a single individual was placed in each grave, unlike the first type where single burials were rare.· We begin by looking at power relationships, not at the absolute power of any single individual.· No search should ever be carried out by a single individual.· As the name implies, the sole proprietorship is owned and operated by a single individual.· For the Spix's macaw this process reached its inevitable terminus with just a single individual left in the wild.· The same marketing principles that work for a chain of electronic stores also work for a single individual.· By 1840 not a single individual remained.· He felt that to have any chance of preserving the family tradition, a single individual must inherit.
VERB· The ability to maintain physical and mental powers has allowed some individuals to pursue their chosen careers regardless of their age.· Customer-driven systems also allow individuals to meet their needs in a holistic way, without applying to half a dozen different programs.· It may be too bound by rules and not allow individuals to exercise discretion within their work. 5.· Income transfers, in contrast, allow individuals to effectively opt out of the capitalistic process.· Self-expression allows individuals to explain their attitudes, outlook and feelings about their total situation.· The tax-exempt savings accounts would allow individuals to set aside money to spend on medical needs under catastrophic-illness coverage.· Phenomenology allows that every individual has a unique state of knowledge, based on previous experiences and inherited ideas.· Market systems that allow individuals to pursue their own interests within a system of property rights, contracts, and market prices.
WORD FAMILYnounindividualindividualityadjectiveindividualindividualizedverbindividualizeadverbindividually
1a person, considered separately from the rest of the group or society that they live in: the rights of the individual Each individual receives two genes, one inherited from each parent. Most churches were built with donations from private individuals (=ordinary people, rather than the government or companies).2a person of a particular kind, especially one who is unusual in some way: a strange-looking individualCOLLOCATIONS– Meanings 1 & 2adjectivesan ordinary individual· Ordinary individuals need no more than 3–5 grams of salt per day.a talented/gifted individual· He had taken a group of talented individuals and built a superb team.an outstanding individual (=with unusually good qualities)· We need a few outstanding individuals to act as leaders.a private individual (=a person, not a company or business)· Few shares in the company are owned by private individuals.a particular individual· The writer is addressing a general reader rather than a particular individual.a single individual (=one person on their own)· Equipment of this kind is not something a single individual could afford.a wealthy individual (=a wealthy person)· Large ranches are often owned by corporations or wealthy individuals.selected individuals (=ones who are specially chosen for something)· Selected individuals were invited to the dinner.isolated individuals (=one on their own, not in a group with others)· Society does not consist of isolated individuals.like-minded individuals (=people who share the same opinions)· The message board is a forum where like-minded individuals can communicate.phrasestreat somebody as an individual· Each student must be treated as an individual.a group of individuals· We need to perform as a team rather than a group of individuals.the needs of the individual· The fitness program is adapted to the needs of the individual.the rights of the individual· The rights of the individual must be protected.freedom of the individual· We live in a society which prizes the freedom of the individual.respect for the individual· The policies are based on respect for the individual.individuals vary (=everyone is different)· Individuals vary in their ability to adapt to change.