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Meaning of indrette | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. to furnish for some purpose
  2. to design

Examples

“1832, Brammer. G. P. (Gerhard Peter), Det hellige Land paa herrens tid: en statistisk-geographisk beskrivelse, page 67”

At Gethsemane, a cave like this place is shown, and the Catholics have furnished it for church service.

“Lydias kæreste gennem flere år, Hother Jensen, havde indrettet den til hende ...”

Lydia's boyfriend through several years, Hother Jensen, had furnished it for her ...

“Nu har hun købt en gård på Samsø og indrettet den til bed and breakfast.”

Now, she has bought a farm on Samsø and furnished it as a bed and breakfast.

“Saa skab Verden, Gud, indret den, som da det første Menneske gik i den,...”

So make the world, God, design it, as when the first human walked in it,...

“Jeg beder dig bønlig, skriv os til om din Reise og indret den med Eftertanke og efter en fornuftig Beregning over Tiden.”

I implore you, write to us of your voyage and plan it with thought and in accordance with a reasonable calculation of time

“Og her er vel at mærke ikke tale om en minimalstatsløsning, men tværtimod om en indrettende og overvågende stat i tråd med Rockefeller Foundations forståelse af en liberalistisk velfærdsstat.”

And it is worth noting that this is not a minimal-state solution, but quite on the contrary, a designing and surveilling state along the lines of the Rockefeller Foundation's notion of a liberalist welfare state.

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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