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centre
(redirected from centred around)

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Medical, Encyclopedia, Hutchinson 0.02 sec.
be/take centre stage  (British) also be/take center stage (American)
to be the most important thing or person at an event or in a situation, or to be the thing or person that people notice most A new range of electric cars will be centre stage at next month's exhibition.
See also: stage

left, right and centre  (British informal) also right and leftleft and right (AmericanAmerican informalinformal)

if something bad is happening left, right and centre, it is happening in a lot of places or to a lot of people They were firing at people left, right and centre. The Postal Service has been losing customers left and right these past couple of years.
See also: and, right


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The common view of tolerance is more like that of Elizabeth May of the Green Party of Canada who, in a discussion centred around 'gays' and lesbians, asserted that "we must be tolerant of everyone--Jesus sat down with tax collectors and prostitutes (TVO, Oct.
Piano has integrated all this into a single urban block centred around Atlanta's only real urban space, a space where people already just hang out and be, as well as pass through to enter one of the cultural buildings around or reach the metro station behind it.
He says the debate should be centred around what that means and how senior levels of the Canadian government ought to be responding.
 
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