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  • noun Plural form of continuation.

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  • It was our job to gather and organize data about our continuations expenditures "continuations" is a fancy librarian word for things we pay for over and over, including databases and journals

    SFX Documentation 2010

  • If the bills be made _renewable_, by agreement, "continuations" will be taken in any quantity.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 Various

  • I have obviated these inconveniences and have ridden in comfort by wearing boots made two inches shorter than the regulation height, and by wearing breeches with "continuations," no stockings are exposed to view, even when one gets a fall.

    The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Alice M. Hayes 1873

  • For hunting and winter use I like what are called "continuations" fixed to breeches, as these gaiter-like pieces of cloth cover the leg to a certain distance below the swell of the calf, and keep it warm, besides preventing the knee of the breeches from working round, which men obviate by using garter-straps.

    The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Alice M. Hayes 1873

  • The "continuations" of the _Tatler_ are given due attention by Gay, as well as three of its imitators: _The Grouler_ (6 numbers, 1711), _The

    The Present State of Wit (1711) In a Letter to a Friend in the Country John Gay 1708

  • I additionally excluded patents that made other priority claims such as continuations, divisionals, and continuations-in-part.

    Patent Law Blog (Patently-O) 2009

  • I additionally excluded patents that made other priority claims such as continuations, divisionals, and continuations-in-part.

    Patent Law Blog (Patently-O) 2009

  • Combine this with what I have seen as the increasingly cavalier attitude of the PTO, which results in increased prosecution costs and the need for prosecution devices such as continuations, RCE's and appeals, and what you get is the situation where, even where the invention is GREAT and the application sound, an applicant is increasingly uncertain about the course prosecution and enforcement will take after initial filing.

    Patent Law Blog (Patently-O) 2009

  • I additionally excluded patents that made other priority claims such as continuations, divisionals, and continuations-in-part.

    Patent Law Blog (Patently-O) 2009

  • Finally, Scheme offers to its user an extremely advanced macrology (actually it has the most advanced macro system I know) and extremely powerful features (such as continuations) without equivalent in other languages.

    Artima Developer Spotlight 2008

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