overall objective
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoverallandobjective
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overall
adverb[before noun]
adjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈrɔːl/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɑːl/
in general rather than in particular, or including all the people or things in a particular group ...
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objective
noun[C]
uk/əbˈdʒek.tɪv/us/əbˈdʒek.tɪv/
something that you plan to do ...
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(Definition ofoverallandobjectivefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The mainoverallobjectiveis to improve the availability of assessment information to assist in implementing national and regional health policies.
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The behavior of all agents is complimentary in that they assist each other to satisfy theoverallobjectivementioned.
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This does not, however, imply that the household'soverallobjectiveis to maximise profit.
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A much improved take-up of advanced computing within complex conceptual design environments is theoverallobjective.
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Theoverallobjectiveof this study was to understand how age and agegroup relationships were perceived and managed in the four case-study organisations.
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Ouroverallobjectiveis to do a heuristic cost-benefit analysis of the abatement of the incremental pollution resulting from cloth and leather exports.
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A succinct statement of the author'soverallobjectiveis difficult to find within the book's pages.
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It is clear that hisoverallobjectivewas to determine unifying reasoning patterns that cut across application domains.
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They classify constraints as either hard and soft and relax soft constraints as necessary to maximize someoverallobjectivefunction.
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However, this does mean that the household'soverallobjectiveis to maximize profit.
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Theoverallobjectiveof the program was to prepare the text for tasks such as abstracting.
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Theoverallobjectivewas to validate its performance against many species in diverse environments relative to the 'best' conventional traps.
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The contribution of each violated soft constraint to theoverallobjectiveis thus its degree of violation.
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Theoverallobjective/motion of the system during the starting and end points was pre-defined.
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The advantage of employed multi-performance criteria method is that each sub-task objective can be combined in a weighted sum to from anoverallobjective.
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Theoverallobjectiveof this work is to gain better understandings of the mechanics of passive dynamic walking.
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Theoverallobjective, however, is to develop a search methodology that allows concurrent processing of far more complex hierarchies.
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Theoverallobjectiveof any production system is to increase production and economic efficiency, and to maintain the resource base and long-term productivity.
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To assess the overall survival in these patients, andoverallobjectivetumor response rate (confirmed and unconfirmed, complete and partial response) in the subset of these patients with measurable disease.
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