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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
affirmative
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
affirmative action
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
▪ Poor blacks dislike the Republican attack on welfare; rich blacks resent the Republican criticism of affirmative action.
▪ Recent Supreme Court decisions have put limits on the use of affirmative action to assure diversity in student bodies.
▪ The others deal with affirmative action and access to information.
▪ Wilson has been under fire from many minority groups because of his campaign against affirmative action programs.
▪ But religious right leaders had adamantly opposed him because of his views on abortion and affirmative action.
▪ The affirmative action principle could be applied to virtually all economic or social goods.
▪ But affirmative action is clearly going to be a more constrained remedy in future years than in past decades.
▪ Pete Wilson took in his unsuccessful presidential campaign in which he repeatedly highlighted affirmative action as a cutting-edge issue.
answer
▪ Both questions have to receive affirmative answers, and they are not mutually exclusive.
▪ Allowing the appeal automatically indicates an affirmative answer to the third certified question.
▪ The voter knows that an affirmative answer would be considered more respectable than the truth.
▪ The doctrine of the internality of relations gives an affirmative answer to both these questions.
▪ If an affirmative answer can be given to all, this is your case.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Above all, affirmative action assuages white guilt.
▪ As in the United States, affirmative action has been challenged in the courts.
▪ He also agreed to adopt policies on affirmative action and ethics.
▪ Hearings to consider a Proposed constitutional amendment outlawing affirmative action were scheduled.
▪ Indeed, equal opportunity policies, and strategies of affirmative action, can be built into selective assessments.
▪ The others deal with affirmative action and access to information.
▪ Until now, however, the court has not reconsidered the workplace rules on affirmative action.
▪ While trainers try to distinguish between the two, skeptics often view diversity as just warmed-over affirmative action.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If the affirmative was the case in all three, don't feel ashamed.
▪ The Court answers this question in the affirmative.
▪ The question posed at the end of the first paragraph can be answered with a strong affirmative.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Affirmative

Affirmative \Af*firm"a*tive\, a. [L. affirmativus: cf. F. affirmatif.]

  1. Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.

  2. That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering ``yes'' to a question; -- opposed to negative; as, an affirmative answer; an affirmative vote.

  3. Positive; dogmatic. [Obs.]
    --J. Taylor.

    Lysicles was a little by the affirmative air of Crito.
    --Berkeley.

  4. (logic) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.

  5. (Alg.) Positive; -- a term applied to quantities which are to be added, and opposed to negative, or such as are to be subtracted.

Affirmative

Affirmative \Af*firm"a*tive\, n.

  1. That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the proposition stated; -- opposed to negative; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative.

    Whether there are such beings or not, 't is sufficient for my purpose that many have believed the affirmative.
    --Dryden.

  2. A word or phrase expressing affirmation or assent; as, yes, that is so, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
affirmative

"answering 'yes,'" mid-15c., from use in logic; from Middle French affirmatif (13c.), from Latin affirmativus, from affirmat-, past participle stem of affirmare (see affirm). As a noun from early 15c. Affirmative action "positive or corrective effort by employers to prevent discrimination in hiring or promotion" is attested from 1935 with regard to labor unions; specific racial sense is from 1961; now often used in reference to hiring quotas, etc.

Wiktionary
affirmative

a. 1 pertaining to truth; asserting that something ''is''; affirming 2 pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result 3 positive 4 Confirmative; ratifying. 5 dogmatic 6 (context logic English) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition. 7 (context algebra English) positive; not negative n. 1 yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance. 2 (qualifier: grammatical terminology) An answer that shows agreement or acceptance. 3 (context obsolete English) An assertion.

WordNet
affirmative
  1. adj. affirming or giving assent; "an affirmative decision"; "affirmative votes"; "an affirmative nod"; "an affirmatory gesture" [syn: affirmatory] [ant: negative]

  2. expecting the best; "an affirmative outlook" [syn: optimistic]

  3. supporting a policy or attitude etc; "an affirmative argument" [syn: favoring]

affirmative

n. a reply of affirmation; "he answered in the affirmative" [ant: negative]

Wikipedia
Affirmative

Affirmative can mean:

  • Pertaining to truth
  • Pertaining to an assertion
  • An answer that shows agreement or acceptance, such as " yes"
  • Affirmative (linguistics), a positive (non-negated) sentence or clause
  • Affirmative (policy debate), the team which affirms the resolution
  • Affirmative action

Usage examples of "affirmative".

And during the assigned interval the Judge shall diligently examine the copy of the appeal, and the reasons or objections upon which it is based, and shall consult with learned lawyers whether he shall submit negative apostils, that is, negative answers, and thereby disallow the appeal, or whether he shall allow the appeal and submit affirmative and fitting apostils to the Judge to whom the appeal is made.

And even if, after the appeal has been admitted, and the affirmative apostils have been given, the appellant is accused and denounced to the Judge in respect of other heresies which were not in question in the case from which he appealed, he does not cease to be the Judge, and can proceed with the inquiry and the examination of witnesses as before.

If you can answer that question in the affirmative, then do so explicitly, by demonstrating how their opinions in this case can be reconciled with their opinions in prior cases as well as with their extrajudicial writings.

When the class had finished, Paul asked Patina if she was going to lunch, to which she answered in the affirmative, and the pair set off for the cafeteria together.

As mayor of New York, Giuliani refused to yield to the left on a slew of other hot-button issues, aggressively opposing affirmative action administrators, pornographic artists, Legal Aid lawyers, useless government employees, and other key Democratic constituencies.

I ask the Theist, if he does not allow, that there is a great and immeasurable, because incomprehensible difference between the human and the divine mind: The more pious he is, the more readily will he assent to the affirmative, and the more will he be disposed to magnify the difference: He will even assert, that the difference is of a nature which cannot be too much magnified.

Now, as a new era dawns for the Church and her servants, she must make even greater efforts to propagate the gift of life everlasting, championing the Rights of the Unconceived through a Doctrine of Affirmative Fertility.

For every underqualified minority or woman, there were at least three white men who were equally inept: that was the true legacy of affirmative action, lowering the standards for everyone.

Syllogism in the Second Figure with two affirmative premises, and therefore the fallacy of undistributed Middle.

The question of negligence cannot arise unless the depositor has in drawing his cheek left blanks unfilled, or by some affirmative act of negligence has facilitated the commission of a fraud by those into whose hands the check may come.

If one way, the one-in-five will become one-in-four, one-in-three, and so on until it becomes one-in-one and a minute fraction, which will be close enough to affirmative certainty so that you will say you know that I killed Orchard.

The question seemed to surprise Anh, who blinked a few times and then nodded in the affirmative.

He then asked if two sequins would be enough, and I answered in the affirmative.

He did this from a podium in a ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, rented by Affirmative Housing II, as an antiracism workshop.

Because the new president of Columbia, Lee Bollinger, may well be the most liberal major college president in America, and in his earlier job as president of the University of Michigan, he instituted the most aggressive affirmative action program anywhere.