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miscellaneousmis‧cel‧la‧ne‧ous /ˌmɪsəˈleɪniəs◂/ adjective [only before noun]   miscellaneousOrigin: 1600-1700 Latin miscellaneus, from miscellus ‘mixed’, from miscere ‘to mix’ - List your miscellaneous expenses in the right-hand column.
- The seminar was attended by a miscellaneous collection of students, businessmen, and housewives.
- Their junk shop was full of chairs, trunks, ornaments, and other miscellaneous objects.
- You'll need enough money for food, transport, and other miscellaneous costs.
- A miscellaneous series of incidents attach to various lengths of term.
- Added to the main Bill were six miscellaneous sections.
- At first sight, indeed, every civilization looks rather like a railway goods yard, constantly receiving and dispatching miscellaneous deliveries.
- For collectors there was a splendid array of miscellaneous artefacts grouped together in sections.
- Other miscellaneous rare causes of central vertigo are listed in Table 3-4.
- Scientific Correspondence is for discussion of topical scientific matters, including those published in Nature, and for miscellaneous contributions.
- The balancing slower growth was supplied by the portmanteau of miscellaneous services.
seeming to be together for no particular reason► miscellaneous · You'll need enough money for food, transport, and other miscellaneous costs.· Their junk shop was full of chairs, trunks, ornaments, and other miscellaneous objects.· The seminar was attended by a miscellaneous collection of students, businessmen, and housewives. ► motley: motley crew/bunch/assortment etc a group of people of very different kinds, especially people that you disapprove of: · The people who travelled with us to Mexico were a motley crew.· A motley bunch of students, ex-convicts and unemployed artists worked together to repair the building. ► mixed bag informal a group of people or things of very different kinds which do not seem to have much connection with each other: · Downtown is a mixed bag of upscale retailers and discount stores.· Today, healthcare depends on a mixed bag of medical professionals, charity workers, and patients' families. ► this, that, and the other also this, that, and the other thing American spoken say this about a variety of things that someone says or does: · We spent the evening chatting about this, that, and the other.· The casting agents always want me to prove that I can do this, that, and the other thing. ► miscellaneous items (=of lots of different types)· The cardboard box contained a number of miscellaneous items. a miscellaneous set of things or people includes many different things or people that do not seem to be connected with each other:  a miscellaneous assortment of books They receive a grant of £1,094 to cover the cost of miscellaneous expenses. |