growing concentration
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrowingandconcentration
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growing
adjective
uk/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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concentration
noun
uk/ˌkɒn.sənˈtreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌkɑːn.sənˈtreɪ.ʃən/
the ability to think carefully about something you are doing and ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandconcentrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We are against thegrowingconcentrationof power at the centre, of which this is but one more example.
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Thisgrowingconcentrationof administrative power puts the individual at a disadvantage and his individual freedom at risk.
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We certainly need more study of this and of the effects of thegrowingconcentrationof large businesses.
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However, the bad news is that there is agrowingconcentrationof that capacity, to the exclusion of many of our communities.
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Global competitiveness means that there is agrowingconcentrationof research resources throughout the world.
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All this means agrowingconcentrationbecause the death of a newspaper means that there are fewer of them and the concentration, therefore, is greater.
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First, we must prevent agrowingconcentrationof industry in certain areas.
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There is here a growing tendency towards contraction in the number of newspapers and agrowingconcentrationof newspaper power in a few hands.
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On the other half there is a heavy andgrowingconcentrationof high fire risk installations.
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Thisgrowingconcentrationof wealth, power and decision-making is now recognised as being far from the panacea which its supporters had claimed.
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Another important factor is thegrowingconcentrationof public services.
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This problem will become increasingly difficult, because of the acceleration in technological development and thegrowingconcentrationof international capital.
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The prospects are aggravated by thegrowingconcentration—and the growing importance of the spot market—cif the retail trade.
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I agree with the rapporteur that thegrowingconcentrationof marketing and distribution of foodstuffs has contributed significantly to the increase in consumer prices compared with producer prices.
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At the other end of the scale there is agrowingconcentrationof industrial power in fewer and fewer hands, such as large combines and the multinationals.
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The traffic year by year—particularly commercial traffic—is getting denser at a faster rate than anywhere else in the country due to the intense andgrowingconcentrationof industry.
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She urged the government to call an inquiry into thegrowingconcentrationof media ownership, calling it a threat to democracy.
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