growing threat

collocation in English

meaningsofgrowingandthreat

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growing
adjective
uk
/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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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 ofgrowingandthreatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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And, as a consequence, there is agrowingthreatof language death.
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We face agrowingthreat.
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It represents agrowingthreatto our ability to control disease and to feed the world population in the future.
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Is there agrowingthreatwithin our own territory?
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So much for thegrowingthreatof crime.
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This is the remorseless,growingthreatto our livestock industry.
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Another serious problem for dairy farmers is thegrowingthreatfrom tuberculosis.
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But the friends are concerned about a new andgrowingthreat.
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That would have posed a real andgrowingthreatto fair competition.
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Furthermore, there is agrowingthreatof a nuclear war taking place by accident.
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We need unity to fend off thegrowingthreatof protectionism from whatever source.
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They also pose agrowingthreatto poultry farms, and have been seen attacking lambs.
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In the face of agrowingthreat, it is utter folly.
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The supermarkets' immense economic power is agrowingthreatto the consumer, not a benefit.
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The time has come for us to recognise thegrowingthreatof protectionism.
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He stressed its importance and urgency and thegrowingthreattowards its fulfilment.
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The great andgrowingthreatfrom industry, telecommunications and defence works still remains.
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We suggested four basic ways to deal with thegrowingthreatof the international drug traffic.
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In the meantime, something must be done to check thegrowingthreatof salmon poaching.
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Among the young, there is also thegrowingthreatof drug misuse, which seems to be growing every day.
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In recent years we have heard from our constituents, the newspapers and the television about thegrowingthreatof bureaucracy.
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We must realise that one side's defensive deterrent is agrowingthreatto the security of the other side.
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Like climate change, biodiversity loss is an economic problem, a social problem and agrowingthreatto global security.
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