Dedicated has shrugged off a lot of this, in many contexts, and is comfortably used with reference to something that is set aside or reserved for a particular purpose. It is commonly used in some of the most prosaic contexts - dedicated printers, dedicated communications facilities, and so on.
Dedicated to maintain can be interpreted as a contraction of dedicated in order to maintain, while dedicated to maintaining has only one interpretation.
I would like to thank you for the time you have dedicated to me
Hello, What would be the most appropriate word for this sentence? "The course is dedicated to/devoted to/ destined to/aimed at children and adolescents."
I never made the distinction, but WIKI does. Loyal vs Devoted - What's the difference? As adjectives the difference between loyal and devoted is that loyal is having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something while devoted is vowed; dedicated; consecrated.
Thank you Egmont and Chasint now I’m clear about “on one’s own merits” but still confused about “in one’s own right”, I’ve gone through some previous threads regarding this phrase which said “ it is used as a figure of speech. It's an idiom. It does not necessarily mean having dedicated your life to a particular profession.
Thank you for pointing this out. Just one further clarification about " This year meeting was dedicated to Professor Marzolini" (phantasy name). If it had been "This year" without "meeting" then "has been dedicated" would have been correct, because the author of the report is writing in the same year than the meeting which took place, so the "dedication" lasted for the whole year, isn'it ...