geographic mobility

collocation in English

meaningsofgeographicalandmobility

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geographical
adjective
uk
/ˌdʒi.əˈɡræf.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌdʒi.əˈɡræf.ɪ.kəl/
relating to geography, or to the geography of a particular area ...
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mobility
noun[U]
uk
/məʊˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/moʊˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the ability to move freely or be ...
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(Definition ofgeographicalandmobilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgeographic mobility

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But a variety of current empirical studies show that, despite the expectation of highgeographicmobility, children do tend to live reasonably close.
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There are different views again as to the process of dispersal, but high degrees of social andgeographicmobilitywere obviously important.
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Two groups of participants were recruited who differed in their residential history with respect togeographicmobility.
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Geographically local dialects tended to be confused more often than nonlocal dialects, although this effect was attenuated bygeographicmobility.
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Health andgeographicmobilityamong the recently widowed.
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Recent findings have shown that listeners' region of origin andgeographicmobilityaffect their perception of dialect-specific properties of speech in vowel identification and dialect categorization tasks.
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In particular, a listener's residential history, including region of origin,geographicmobility, and travel experience, have been found to play an important role in shaping the perception of linguistic variation.
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This will lead to a decrease in the labour force, and to an increasing desire forgeographicmobility.
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The decrease in professional andgeographicmobilitywhich will follow could, what is more, negatively affect growth and productivity.
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Government support is in no way guaranteed for internationalgeographicmobility.
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Through the open and forgiving system that once created social andgeographicmobility, now appears a lack of strict standards.
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Geographicmobility, directly tied to the market and the need for investment capital, was the main path to social mobility.
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Increasedgeographicmobilityand long distance moves do place strains on the household.
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Geographicmobilityhas a large impact on many sociological factors in a community and is a current topic of academic research.
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Geographicmobility, population mobility, or more simply mobility is also a statistic that measures migration within a population.
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For womengeographicmobilityis often limited, and they are left with the additional burden of the work priorly done by the men after those migrate.
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