general morale

collocation in English

meaningsofgeneralandmorale

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general
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/us
/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
an officer of very high rank, especially in ...
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morale
noun[U]
uk
/məˈrɑːl/us
/məˈrɑːl/
the amount of confidence felt by a person or group of people, especially when in a dangerous or ...
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(Definition ofgeneralandmoralefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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His tasks are extremely difficult: policing, and keeping up thegeneralmoraleof everybody concerned.
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The ability to be able to climb that ladder is a most important thing in thegeneralmoraleof industry.
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Thegeneralmoralewithin the professions is certainly not increasing as a result.
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The theory is all right if one disregards all the surrounding effects on thegeneralmorale.
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I welcome it because nothing is more lowering to thegeneralmoralein a village than to see cottages left empty.
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I got to know something of the effects of their operations on the family incomes and thegeneralmoraleof the people.
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I believe that thegeneralmoraleof the police is high.
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I suspect the problem arises out of thegeneralmoraleissues that we have been discussing.
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Neither the security of the country nor thegeneralmoraleof the forces can afford that.
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The sixth problem is thegeneralmoralein the district, which, as in the rest of the country, is now poor.
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They may also suffer in staffing andgeneralmorale, which in many ways is far more important.
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Thegeneralmoraleof the prisoners both in the main and the work camps is reported to be high.
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We have only to ask what would be the effect on thegeneralmoraleof a region which secured this highly prestigious project.
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These things damage thegeneralmoraleof the public.
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It affects both the environment and thegeneralmoraleof local communities.
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Incentives are therefore such that even in old, dying or apparently sick industries such as coal production there have been dramatic increases in productivity and ingeneralmorale.
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Since 1945 and through all the administrations which have followed, thegeneralmoraleof the teaching profession at infant, primary, secondary and university level has declined.
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For a number of years, we have been told that one of the problems for teachers is not just pay but thegeneralmoraleof the profession.
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Really the quality of discipline, the appearance, thegeneralmoraleand outlook of all our pilots and observers and all our aircraft crews are the admiration of the world.
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