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afgive-else

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afgivelse

  1. emission
    • 2006, Naturen i Danmark, bd. 3, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 98:
      Grå pile til og fra de enkelte led i fødekæderne betegner hhv. optagelse af ilt og afgivelse af kuldioxid (respiration).
      Gray arrows to and from the individual segments of the food chains denote, respectively, intake of oxygen and emission of carbon dioxide (respiration).
  2. wilful (but not necessarily joyous) dispension
    • 2016, Michael Böss, Op omkring Island: En kulturhistorisk rejsedagbog, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
      ... kongens afgivelse af sin enevælde i 1848 ...
      ... the king's wilful dispension of his absolute-monarchy authorities in 1848 ...
  3. an act of proclaiming, of giving something verbally
    • 1992, Abrahams historie: en historisk-kritisk kommentar til Genesis 11,26 - 25,11, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 62:
      ... Jahves afgivelse af sit edelige løfte til Abram.
      ... Jahve's giving of his beoathed promise to Abram.
    • 2008, Niels Struer Kragelund, Byggejura, Nyt Teknisk Forlag, →ISBN, page 65:
      ... samt at han ikke ved afgivelse af sit tilbud ...
      ... and that he, at the time of the giving of his offer ...
  4. the act of reporting, of giving information
    • 1842, Denmark. Stænderforsamling, Roskilde, Tidende for forhandlingerne ved Provindsialstaenderne for Sjællands, Fyens of Lollands-Falsters stifter samt for Island Færøerne, page 3829
      En almindelig Bemærkning om, at man for Fremtiden, naar lignende Afvigelser fra Normalreglementet finder Sted i Budgetterne, maa ønske,[sic] at blive sat i Kundskab om de Data, hvorpaa Afgivelsen er baseret, ...
      A general remark that one would, in the future, when similar deviations from the normal regulations happen in the budgets, wish to be informed of the data on which the report is grounded, ...
    • 1999, SJFI Working Paper:
      Jens Jeppesen skriver om det: "Uvilje over for afgivelse af oplysninger til statistiske formål er ingenlunde sjælden, især afgivelsen er forbundet med besvær for i forvejen travle mennesker".
      Jens Jeppesen writes of it: "Unwillingness with respect to dispension of information for statistical purposes is in no way rare, the dispension in particular is associated with bother for humans that are already busy.

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