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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
exacting
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ The information here is necessarily internal and more exacting and precise.
▪ Were they more exacting in the eighteenth century than at any other time?
▪ Earlier versions of the scanner have passed this module, but the latest version is more exacting.
■ NOUN
standard
▪ Skill, experience and the natural beauty and resilience of wool make Tintawn famous for its exacting standards.
▪ It was, however, rescued and converted with great taste, mastery and exacting standards into the most comfortable of residences.
▪ Toyota Genuine Replacement Parts are all made to the same exacting standards as those fitted to your car from new.
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▪ Film-editing is a difficult and exacting job.
▪ Only a few applicants meet our very exacting standards.
▪ The article is based on the institute's exacting study of wages in the health care professions.
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▪ Beethoven gives the double bassoon a very exacting part in the Choral Symphony.
▪ But what surely daunted him most was facing his most exacting critic - himself.
▪ If training and competing were exacting, they were not nearly so exacting as plantation work.
▪ It is built to meet our own stringent stringent standards and more importantly, to satisfy your own exacting demands.
▪ She felt as if she had taken an extremely exacting examination.
▪ The information here is necessarily internal and more exacting and precise.
▪ The not very exacting demands of a theology degree gave him time to make a lot of useful Anglican friends.
▪ This is a very laborious and exacting technique and, to date, it has only been used with a few plants.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exacting

Exacting \Ex*act"ing\, a. Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. ``A temper so exacting.''
--T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.

Exacting

Exact \Ex*act"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exacting.] [From L. exactus, p. p. of exigere; or fr. LL. exactare: cf. OF. exacter. See Exact,

  1. ] To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.

    He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
    --Luke. iii. 13.

    Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last
    --Dryden.

    My designs Exact me in another place.
    --Massinger.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exacting

"very demanding, severe in requirement," 1580s, present participle adjective from exact (v.).

Wiktionary
exacting
  1. 1 Making excessive demands; hard to satisfy. 2 Requiring precise accuracy v

  2. (present participle of exact English)

WordNet
exacting
  1. adj. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" [syn: fastidious] [ant: unfastidious]

  2. severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards" [syn: stern, strict]

  3. requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation" [syn: exigent]

Usage examples of "exacting".

As Hillela had adapted her subject to the kind of expectations she sensed available in the alumnae, so she moved on to more exacting forums around the Eastern Seaboard, the Middle West and even California.

But though uttered by a Roman cardinal, even such an expression can hardly be termed violent when applied to the synod which established free elections to bishoprics, suppressed the right of bestowing the pallium, of exacting annates and payments to the papal chancery, and which was endeavouring to restore the papacy to evangelical poverty.

Perhaps you have even guessed that my name is indeed Ali Baba, and, especially you noisy lot in the back, perhaps you forget that I once was one of the most talented of woodcutters, and have retained a facility for the exacting use of exceedingly sharp instruments.

Pe Ell and Walker Boh glaring at each other from opposite corners of the hut - harsh, dark wraiths come from exacting worlds, their silent looks full of warning.

Would she, Rue, succeed in the exacting eyes of the great Brule Hatterick?

I was burning, but I was trying to master my impatience, for I did not think that I had yet the right to be exacting.

Perhaps a policeman had been killed up in one of the favelas, and they were exacting revenge.

After that initiation, which continued for several months, I was moved to the less physically demanding but more exacting work of learning to cut, turn and smooth the wood for the spokes and felloes of the wheels.

Isadora had been furious when she was told, and it had taken both of the more serene Fyne sisters to keep her from tracking down Kane and exacting her own style of revenge.

Each impactor and each launch had to meet exacting specification and schedule constraints to make the implosion as symmetrical as physics would allow, or the biggest fiasco in human history would result.

Establishing and making public the truth of the recent pastattributing responsibility to state officials for specific acts and in some cases exacting retribution-appears here as the ineluctable precondition for any democratic future.

He saw the Lawgiver crash to the ground, and in seconds the longhorn loomed above the man responsible for its capture, slashing repeatedly with its horns as if it was exacting revenge for its torment.

A liberated sigil retains its efficacy, without exacting the former pain-price.

And like noxious weeds they grew up sturdily, becoming bolder and bolder each day, exacting a bigger and bigger ransom from the fools who toiled and moiled, ever extending their thefts and marching along the road to murder.

I was a remorseless extra-biller, and it seemed to me that the more exacting I was, the more eager my aporetics and dismal sufferers were to reward me for my attentions.