grave threat
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgraveandthreat
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grave
adjective
uk/ɡreɪv/us/ɡreɪv/
seriously ...
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threat
noun[C]
uk/θret/us/θret/
a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is ...
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(Definition ofgraveandthreatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is agravethreat.
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This is potentially agravethreat.
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There might be agravethreatto personal freedom.
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Then there will undoubtedly be agravethreatof deflation.
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This is something which is a verygravethreatindeed.
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I thought that that was agravethreat.
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Proliferation is agravethreatto international security.
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Earlier this year, it was undergravethreatof closure.
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The shirt industry is under agravethreat.
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In the meantime, our industry is faced with a verygravethreatto the home market.
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Its manpower and its budget are being cut and it is undergravethreat.
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They only decide to fight when their interests seem to them to be undergravethreat.
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Climate change is agravethreatindeed, and steps must be taken immediately.
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There are those who talk as though the closure of every mine represented agravethreat.
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Above all, in principle it is agravethreatif we accept qualifications which are unaccredited.
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It was agravethreat, and this is an attempt to mitigate and alleviate the consequences.
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It is agravethreatto our standard of living, and to the health of our already overstrained population.
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Commercial pressures in this direction pose agravethreatto scientific research and a hindrance to its ultimate medical applications.
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Clearly, there is agravethreatof a national water strike for the first time in our history.
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The implication was that the very fact of grant-maintained schools represented agravethreatto local democracy.
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He has lifted agravethreatto the trade in fish cakes and cods' heads, for which the trade will be duly grateful.
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With the development of interest in antiques and historic artefacts, even the churches in use, as well as the redundant churches, are undergravethreat.
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The tunnel under the electricity switching station has to be ruled out because of high cost andgravethreatto the construction programme.
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The numbers clearly were an exaggeration but an exaggeration that does indicate agravethreat.
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The area is under agravethreatdue to overfishing and destructive fishing practices.
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