built-in
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1. built-in - Noun
2. built-in - Adjective
3. built-in - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
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built in
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The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
Science has a huge advantage over "other ways of knowing”: built-in methods of self-correction.
History as inspiration and ideology has a built-in tendency to become self-justifying myth. Nothing is a more dangerous blindfold than this, as the history of modern nations and nationalisms demonstrates.