occasional
/əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəl/ adjetivo B1En español: ocasional, esporádico
- Occurring or appearing irregularly from time to time, but not often; incidental. · He was mostly solitary, but enjoyed the occasional visitor.· He took an occasional glass of wine.
- Created for a specific occasion. · Elgar's music was not created to be occasional music for high-school graduations.
- Intended for use as the occasion requires. · What your living room needs are some occasional chairs.
- Acting in the indicated role from time to time. · He is an occasional writer of letters to the editor.
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Eugénie bowed coldly to the count, and availed herself of the first moment when the conversation became earnest to escape to her study, whence very soon two cheerful and noisy voices being heard in connection with occasional notes of the piano assured Monte Cristo that Mademoiselle Danglars preferred to his society and to that of M.
Gardiner, with occasional help from Elizabeth, the conversation was carried on.
Led on by some rudimentary aspirations towards right, and encouraged by the judicious stimulation of an occasional ten-pound note sent to him by devious methods, he has once or twice given me advance information which has been of value—that highest value which anticipates and prevents rather than avenges crime.
MacDonald made an occasional note; while Holmes sat absorbed, with the expression of surprised and reverent admiration with which the botanist surveys the rare and precious bloom.
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