Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
approximate
English answer:
come as close as possible
Added to glossary by
Trudy Peters
Feb 17, 2008 14:12
16 yrs ago
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English term
approximate
English
Art/Literary
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
"Learning to be motivated solely by naturual rewards is also necessary if you want to be your own boss. Yes. they often achieve external rewards such as money or praise. But these are never givens. There's no boss to guarantee you'll get them. You can try to approximate them."
What does it mean by "you can try to approximate them"?
What does it mean by "you can try to approximate them"?
Responses
| 3 +14 | come as close as possible |
Trudy Peters
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| 4 | closely replicate |
Carol Gullidge
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| 3 | to bring near |
salavat
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Change log
Feb 17, 2008 15:23: writeaway changed "Field (specific)" from "Linguistics" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters"
Feb 26, 2008 13:16: Trudy Peters Created KOG entry
Responses
+14
14 mins
Trudy Peters
United States
United States
Native in English
&
English
Works in field
United States
Related KudoZ points
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10
Selected
come as close as possible
another way of saying it
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Note added at 49 mins (2008-02-17 15:01:22 GMT)
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Since you don't have a boss, you have to try to provide your own rewards, in the form of the satisfaction you get from a job well done or getting paid (well). Or take yourself out to dinner :-)
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Note added at 49 mins (2008-02-17 15:01:22 GMT)
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Since you don't have a boss, you have to try to provide your own rewards, in the form of the satisfaction you get from a job well done or getting paid (well). Or take yourself out to dinner :-)
Note from asker:
| Could you kindly explain why the author says "But you can try to approximate them"? I know the literal meaning of the word and "them" refers to "external rewards" here. But it is still unclear what it means by the author saying so. |
2 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you !"
11 mins
salavat
Works in field
to bring near
You can to bring near to the givens such rewards that is imitate that process somehow. What exactly this means I suppose the explanation follows.
22 mins
Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
&
English
Specializes in field
United Kingdom
poetically precise prose with... panache
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English
Related KudoZ points
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52
closely replicate
aother possibility
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