minor element

noun

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Compliance, payroll, and even minor elements like time zones and equitable benefits are historically difficult to reconcile with a global workforce. Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023 State and federal lawyers for the U.S. Transportation Department both argued that the separate bike and pedestrian path would have been a minor element of the bridge’s design, one that the state said would only have been used for a tiny fraction of the 7 million annual crossings. Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022 That said, while listening via a live audio link, the Erik Wemple Blog grimaced at the Times’s argument that Palin was a minor element of the editorial. Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of minor element was in 1941

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“Minor element.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/minor%20element. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.

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