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One is the use of weak contractive inequalities and the other is the use of binary relations. Combining the two trends, in this paper we establish a relation-theoretic fixed point result for a mapping which is defined on a metric space with an arbitrary binary relation and satisfies a weak contractive inequality for any pair of points whenever the pair of points is related by a given relation. The uniqueness is obtained by assuming some extra conditions. The metric space is assumed to be    R   -complete. We use    R   -continuity of functions. The property of local T-transitivity of the relation    R    is used in the main theorem. There is an illustrative example. An existing fixed point result is generalized through the present work. 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