point of view

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points of view
1) N-COUNT: oft with poss You can refer to the opinions or attitudes that you have about something as your point of view.

Thanks for your point of view, John...

Try to look at this from my point of view.

Syn:
2) N-COUNT: usu sing, usu from N with poss If you consider something from a particular point of view, you are using one aspect of a situation in order to judge that situation.

Do you think that, from the point of view of results, this exercise was worth the cost?...

The average man doing hard physical work has the best record, from the point of view of heart disease...

Lennox has taken the point of view that money is not everything.


English dictionary. 2008.

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