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arotake

1. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to evaluate, review, audit.

I te tekau tau atu i 1990, i te whanaketanga o ēnei mātauranga pūtaiao, ka arotakengia anōtia te wā tae tuatahi ai te tangata ki Aotearoa (A 2017). / During the 1990s, with the development of these scientific understandings, these dates of the first of humans to Aotearoa/New Zealand were re-assessed.

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2. (noun) review, audit survey.

He whai hīranga tērā te taupori o te iwi Māori i te rautau 1700 hei tūāpapa mō te arotake i te panonitanga o te taupori (A 2015). / The population of Māori in the 18th-century provides an important basis for surveying the change in population.

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Synonyms: arotakenga, tātaritanga

arotakenga

1. (noun) evaluation, review (a book, etc.), critique.

Synonyms: arotake, tātaritanga

Tari Arotake Mātauranga, Te

1. (loan) Education Review Office.

tātaritanga

1. (noun) analysis, review, appraisal.

Hei tāpiringa atu ki ērā, ko ngā tuhituhinga maha, ngā pitopito kōrero me ngā tātaritanga nā Te Rangi Hīroa i tuku kia tāia e ngā pukapuka putaputa (TTR 1996:15). / In addition to those, Buck sent many articles, notes and reviews to be published in periodicals.

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Synonyms: arotake, arotakenga

kaiarotake

1. (noun) reviewer, evaluator, assessor, auditor.

Ki tā ngā kaiarotake, e whakaari ana tēnei i tā Te Taura Whiri rauhī i te reo Māori, me tana tū hei kaihautū i roto i ngā mahi whakaora ake i tēnei taonga a tātou (HM 1/1999:4). / According to the evaluators, this reflects Te Taura Whiri's care of the Māori language and its standing as a leader in the revival of this treasure of ours.

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arotake pukapuka

1. (noun) book review.

arotake pūtea

1. (noun) audit, financial review.

Kimihia he tikanga arotake pūtea e rite ai ki ngā hiahia o te hunga pāho Māori (RT 2013:4). / Look for an audit process to suit the wishes of Māori broadcasters.

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Poari Arotake i te Āwhina Ture, Te

1. (loan) Legal Aid Review Panel.

Reeves, Paul Alfred

1. (personal name) ONZ, GCMG, GCVO, CF, QSO (1932-2011 ) Puketapu and Te Ātiawa; educated at Victoria University of Wellington and Oxford University. Bishop of Waiapu, Bishop of Auckland and Archbishop and Primate of Aotearoa/New Zealand (1980-1985). First Māori Governor-General of Aotearoa/New Zealand (1985-1990) and since then he was the Anglican Observer at the United Nations, elections observer in South Africa and Ghana and chair of the Fiji Constitution Review Commission, Commonwealth Secretary General's Special Envoy to Guyana. From 2005 until his death he was the Chancellor of the Auckland University of Technology.

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