gross imbalance

collocation in English

meaningsofgrossandimbalance

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gross
adjective
adverb
uk
/ɡrəʊs/us
/ɡroʊs/
(in) ...
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imbalance
noun[C]
uk
/ˌɪmˈbæl.əns/us
/ˌɪmˈbæl.əns/
a situation in which two things that should be equal or that are normally equal ...
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(Definition ofgrossandimbalancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Aid programmes, food programmes, education programmes and other programmes are all involved in redressing thegrossimbalancebetween the rich and the poor.
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In particular, there is agrossimbalancein our labour force between skilled and unskilled labour.
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Though they have competent management and a skilled and hard-working workforce, they cannot compete when they have thisgrossimbalanceof import duties.
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There was agrossimbalancein the situation.
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Will he ask her to consider taking action to rectify thisgrossimbalance?
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It was only the eighth heading which emphasised the moral imperative of redressing thegrossimbalancebetween our wealth and their poverty.
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That sort ofgrossimbalanceand inefficiency was unsustainable.
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There should be positive discrimination to ensure that thegrossimbalancebetween male and female teachers is corrected.
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The fact that our education system is so constructed as to produce thatgrossimbalanceis no excuse.
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More important than all that is the fact that in manufacturing industry there is agrossimbalance.
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There is agrossimbalancein the way that we consider legislation.
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It creates agrossimbalancein terms of power and control between the rights and responsibilities of leaseholders and landlords.
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It is normal for a small business entering into negotiations with a landlord to be faced with agrossimbalanceof power.
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This is one of the reasons—there are others—why we have been advocating a step-by-step realignment that would gradually adjust what is now agrossimbalance.
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Agrossimbalancehas grown between the power of the executive to initiate expenditure and the opportunities for the legislature to examine how it is spent or to control it.
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The fifth is to correct thegrossimbalancewhich existed when we took over between the regions of the country, both in industrial terms and in social terms.
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That is agrossimbalance.
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Is he not already aware that there is agrossimbalancein new towns and will he go ahead and start preparing his proposals to put right this imbalance?
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We have agrossimbalance.
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The new clause would impose just such restrictions and thereby create agrossimbalancein our industrial relations law as it affects the parties to a dispute.
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