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sine qua non

A necessary, essential, or required element. The Latin phrases translates literally to "without which not." Some consider a good education to be the sine qua non of a successful career.

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sine qua non

An essential element or condition, as in A perfect cake is the since qua non of a birthday party. This phrase is Latin for "without which not" and has been used in English since about 1600. It appears more in writing than in speech.

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

a sine qua ˈnon (of/for something)

/%sIneI kwA: "n@Un; American English "noUn/ (from Latin, formal) something that is essential before you can achieve something else: Many people believe that grammar is the sine qua non of language learning.

In Latin, this means ‘without which not’.

See also: non, qua, sine

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sine qua non

Essential part. As translated from the Latin, “Without which, there would be nothing,” the phrase is an erudite way to describe that which is indispensable or basic.

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They were pretty much stacked with bureaucrats, educators, people who had a stake in it, and the real representation from the public was not that great," says Sines.

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Another agent, who did not want to be named, told us he no longer sold homes on Sines' sites for the reason that virtually every buyer dropped out after meeting him.

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In 2005, residents of Ladycroft Park in Blewbury, Oxfordshire, obtained a court order preventing Sines, who lives in a pounds 5million mansion in Virginia Water, Surrey, from threatening, abusing or harassing them and from blocking sales of their homes.