important indicator

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important
adjective
uk
/ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/
us
/ɪmˈpɔːr.tənt/
necessary or of ...
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indicator
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.dɪ.keɪ.tər/
us
/ˈɪn.də.keɪ.t̬ɚ/
something that shows what a situation ...
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(Definition ofimportantandindicatorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimportant indicator

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Firm size therefore seems to be animportantindicatorof the type of coping strategies followed by firms.
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Sibling relative risk is animportantindicatorof "familiality," but does not distinguish effects of family environment from genetic similarity.
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Those who volunteered these entries noted them as animportantindicatorof significant, life-changing events in their past.
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What was at a certain moment a highlyimportantindicatorof status, was not any longer during a later period.
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Stability of solitary-wave solutions is therefore animportantindicatorof their realism and plausibility as the explanation of isolated vortex structures.
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This is animportantindicatorthat the coding procedure for object pronominalization contexts correctly identified the relevant contexts.
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Decrease in the number of leaves is animportantindicatorof plant senescence.
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It can be concluded from these findings that educational level is a moreimportantindicatorof network differences in late life.
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Anotherimportantindicatorof whether people have acquired a more postmodern, more inclusive outlook, is how well citizens tolerate different lifestyles.
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Sharing codes still represents by far the mostimportantindicatorof the communicative status of musical practices.
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Theimportantindicatorbecame the difference between excess reserves and borrowing and that was free reserves.
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Thus, wood density forms animportantindicatorof local and regional vegetation disturbance regimes and tree turnover rates.
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As for the analysed sample, the structure of the nuclear family was animportantindicatorof the level of support.
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A much higher explanatory power was found in land which is the mostimportantindicatorof wealth in this agrarian society.
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Revenue efficiency is chosen instead of cost or profit efficiency because total value of output is animportantindicatorof economic development.
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Thus, the presence or absence of close relationships could be animportantindicatorof the experience of positive life changes.
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This concern with the provenance and pedigree of the parish is animportantindicatorof the respect for the antiquity of these units.
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Parish records are a particularlyimportantindicatorat the most intimate spatial scale of the interplay between society and parish boundaries.
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Increased incidence of cell death is animportantindicatorof an inadequate or suboptimal in vitro environment, and of embryo freezing damage.
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Oneimportantindicatorof migrant community at destination is intermarriage among compatriots.
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