continuationcon‧tin‧u‧a‧tion /kənˌtɪnjuˈeɪʃən/ ●○○ noun - I took it for a continuation.
- In the first place, the scheme only operates for five years, with no guarantee of continuation.
- Repeated statements to this effect at previous summits had been followed by inaction and the continuation of intra-community trade barriers.
- There seems to be nothing in the early stages of the series which could support one continuation against the other.
- This consideration has resulted in continuation of the same procedures with some minor modifications for the second phase of pilot schemes.
NOUN► school· He got into trouble once too often and wound up in continuation school.
VERB► see· These works can be partly seen as a continuation of the nineteenth-century tradition of exotic genre such as depictions of slave girls.· The past 30 years has seen a continuation of the break-up of the old landlord and tenant system.
► support· The Faculty sees no logic in basing the fuel scale charge on cost and therefore supports the continuation of the present system.· The Centre supports the continuation of limited ivory trading, in defiance of an international ban.· There seems to be nothing in the early stages of the series which could support one continuation against the other.
adjectivecontinualcontinued ≠ discontinuedcontinuous ≠ discontinuousnouncontinuation ≠ discontinuationcontinuity ≠ discontinuityadverbcontinuallycontinuouslyverbcontinue ≠ discontinue