overseas development
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoverseasanddevelopment
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overseas
adjective
adverb
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈsiːz/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈsiːz/
in, from, or to ...
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development
noun
uk/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/us/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes ...
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(Definition ofoverseasanddevelopmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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At a time when words such as 'agronomy' and 'engineering' scarcely figure in a politically correctoverseasdevelopmentvocabulary, this book provides great encouragement.
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Debt relief is being paraded as a solution, a new form ofoverseasdevelopmentsubstitute, another generous gesture from the high table.
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In many parts of the world where housing projects have been completed underoverseasdevelopmentschemes, we could provide management teams.
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Meanwhile, the commercial banks have led a private sector stampede away from the business ofoverseasdevelopment.
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One cannot conductoverseasdevelopmentby remote control.
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Our efforts in the field ofoverseasdevelopmentaid are woefully inadequate.
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In that time the provision of aid under theoverseasdevelopmentprogramme has expanded at a substantial rate.
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I cannot over-emphasise the damage that such laxity can do to the cause ofoverseasdevelopmentexpenditure, especially among those who support it most strongly.
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We shall return to 1976–79, when there was a separate department foroverseasdevelopment.
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Indeed, the economic criteria normally applied to the use of ouroverseasdevelopmentfunds would by themselves have led to a much less favourable result.
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This has been a summer of change inoverseasdevelopment.
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She cannot argue the case foroverseasdevelopmentwhere the real decisions are made.
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The commitment to give aid foroverseasdevelopmentis, therefore, a long-term one.
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The third was that there should beoverseasdevelopmentactivities which would help us to solve the problem at this end of the pipeline.
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Point two is that inoverseasdevelopmentthere must be priorities.
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The more we concentrate upon theoverseasdevelopmentactivities the more we put our own problems in perspective.
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Certainly his death is a serious loss to the work ofoverseasdevelopment.
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Such recommendations can, of course, include recommendations relating to the necessity foroverseasdevelopmentof raw materials.
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Some people may wonder why we have chosenoverseasdevelopmentas the subject for debate this evening.
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He is also the chairman of the all-party group onoverseasdevelopment.
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