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pertain tomeaning

verb·C1·9 letters

to relate or be relevant to

Example sentence

These rules pertain to all employees, not just managers.

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These rules pertain to all employees, not just managers.

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Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.

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