relationshipn.

1724 W. Stukeley Of Spleen 52 The suddenness thereof or slowness, shall not incommode the œconomy of the parts and vessels, and their mutual actions and relationship.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 38 Ay, but I know what sort of relation you want to make me though; but it won't do... I want no nearer relationship.

1804 W. Mitford Inq. Princ. Harmony Lang. (ed. 2) 345 The Welsh themselves have been fond of claiming this relationship [for their language].

1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. 268 Teeth of a small Marsupial, Microlestes,..which show a relationship to Myrmecobius.

1915 E. Sapir in T. McFeat Indians of N. Pacific Coast (1987) 37 Intermarriages would bring about intercrossings of all sorts, and in course of time the more remote degrees of relationship would be forgotten.

1974 Nature 8 Nov. 130/2 The presocratic belief that causal relationships existed between natural phenomena.

2005 Mercury (Hobart) (Nexis) 19 Aug. Work done in grade 10 bears no relationship to work done in kindergarten.

1982 Amer. Banker 7 Apr. 6/7 I first presuppose that you have a desire, a willingness, even an ardor for becoming a Relationship Banker.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Jan. iii. 1/4 He may be recognized within the firm as a tax expert and may well have made a large number of client calls last year, but he is no relationship banker.

1980 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 Oct. 21/5 In New York.., Citibank has started what it calls relationship banking.

2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 May 4 Anglo puts its current attraction down to good, old-fashioned relationship banking.

1977 Times 6 Oct. 5/4 (advt.) Contact a Chase relationship manager, who will show you what the extent of Chase service is.

2002 Business Week 4 Feb. 98/2 Private bankers—sometimes called relationship managers—also need to help clients articulate their personal objectives for their wealth.

1970 N.Y. Times 14 Dec. 72/2 Mr. Stankard will be in charge of facilities and relationship management in Asia.

2004 L. Gray New Family Office ii. 29 They teamed with the consultants, who handled the relationship management and administrative aspects.

1988 Wall St. Jrnl. 26 May 29/3 Direct marketing is often referred to as ‘relationship marketing’ because it's a way for companies to get chummier with customers.

2005 J. G. Beech & S. Chadwich Business of Tourism Managem. ii. vi. 131 Airline loyalty programmes serve as an example of how the costs of relationship marketing may exceed its value to the organisation.

1984 Best's Rev. 30 Dec. 30/3 This thrust is focused on providing comprehensive services to smaller, entrepreneurial firms that engage in ‘relationship’ selling to affluent clients.

2007 I. R. Misner & D. Morgan Masters of Sales 249 Nancy actually sold a lot of cars, but used relationship selling with her customers—always looking out for the customer's best interests.

1933 J. Taft Dynamics of Therapy in Controlled Relationship p. viii The term ‘relationship therapy’ is used to differentiate therapy as I have experienced and practiced it, from psycho-analysis or any process in which either the analytic or the intellectual aspect is stressed or the immediacy of the experience denied.

1960 P. W. Tappan Crime, Justice & Correction xviii. 511 He observes the growing preference for relationship therapy and short-term face-to-face techniques rather than insight–interpretative and expressive–emotive methods.

1977 Family Coordinator 26 398/1 Of all the helping professions marriage counselors are presumed to be the most experienced in relationship therapy.

2003 Daily Tel. 20 Jan. 11/8 An advertising campaign..will challenge the notion of relationship therapy as the domain of the white middle class.