general audience
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneralandaudience
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general
adjective
uk/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/us/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
involving or relating to most or all people, things, or places, especially when these are considered as ...
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audience
noun[C]
uk/ˈɔː.di.əns/us/ˈɑː.di.əns/
the group of people together in one place to watch or listen to a play, film, someone ...
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(Definition ofgeneralandaudiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Understandable in an article written for ageneralaudience, this omission was a glaring shortcoming for the entire edifice.
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Its price tag of £77 indicates that it is directed at libraries and specialists, rather than ageneralaudience.
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The work is suitable for ageneralaudience, as equations have been consigned to a comprehensive mathematical appendix.
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The volume is also informed by the concerns of the subaltern studies school, making it of interest to ageneralaudience.
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Though geared more toward ageneralaudienceof literacy teachers, the books do have sections and chapters that would appeal to preservice second language teachers.
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A glossary of technical terms would make reading easier for a moregeneralaudience.
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These kinds of statements reflect the collision between the intractable nature of the technology and the sometimes exaggerated expectations of thegeneralaudience.
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It provides both anecdotal and statistical data to back up each argument and remains accessible to ageneralaudience.
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Evans writes well, for ageneralaudienceassumed to possess little or no background knowledge.
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Television, especially programming designed for ageneralaudience, is a populist medium lending itself to simple statements rather than detailed or complex arguments.
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It is the best chapter in the book, and the one that will be of the greatest interest to ageneralaudience.
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First, it was written for ageneralaudienceand had a fairly simple linguistic and rhetorical structure.
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Our hope is that the series will appeal to an intelligentgeneralaudiencewho will be stimulated by the ideas, intrigued by the accents and entertained by the pictures.
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The portraits differ from those at other sites in that, although they are visible to ageneralaudience, the audience is not allowed to interact directly with them.
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Milner rarely uses psychoanalytic terms within works aimed at ageneralaudience.
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Grant funding enabled research scientists, both established and new to the field, to lecture during the course, andgeneralaudienceevents.
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The authors have structured the book neatly and given it a form that may reach beyond psychology students to ageneralaudiencewith some background in the discipline.
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I highly recommend it for scholars, graduate students, and sophisticated undergraduates, but it could prove to be too specialized for a more average student orgeneralaudience.
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It is quite a challenge to make high quality programmes which will suit ageneralaudience, yet remain a fundamental part of an undergraduate degree programme.
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