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Subject matter   /səbdʒˈɛkt mˈætər/   Listen
Subject matter

noun
1.
What a communication that is about something is about.  Synonyms: content, message, substance.






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"Subject matter" Quotes from Famous Books



... necessary, if the word "persons" as used in the first part of the statute should be held not to include women, to give two entirely different meanings to the same word where occurring twice in the same statute and with regard to the same subject matter. ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... four essentials of a legal contract: competent parties, consideration, agreement, and legal subject matter. ...
— Practical Grammar and Composition • Thomas Wood

... monopolize consciousness—if it must always continue possible for the mind to dwell upon that which transcends knowledge; then there can never cease to be a place for something of the nature of Religion; since Religion under all its forms is distinguished from everything else in this, that its subject matter is that which passes the sphere of experience." Religion is "a constituent of the great whole; and being such must be treated as a subject of Science with no more ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 • Various

... THE SUBJECT.—Before defining the terms that will be used more in detail, and outlining the method of treatment to be followed, it is well to consider the importance of the subject matter of this book, for upon the reader's interest in the subject, and his desire, from the outset, to follow what is said, and to respond to it, rests a large part of the value of ...
— The Psychology of Management - The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and - Installing Methods of Least Waste • L. M. Gilbreth

... to what Marx says relative to strikes. Were the working Class thoroughly acquainted with the subject matter of this little work, we should hear no more of the "common ground" on which capital and labor might meet ...
— Manifesto of the Communist Party • Karl Marx


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