immediate danger

collocation in English

meaningsofimmediateanddanger

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immediate
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/us
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/
happening or done without delay or very soon after ...
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danger
noun
uk
/ˈdeɪn.dʒər/us
/ˈdeɪn.dʒɚ/
the possibility of harm or death ...
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(Definition ofimmediateanddangerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The advice in this age group is the same as that given to any patients: avoid only those activities which would meanimmediatedangerif a fit occurred.
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The advice in this age group is the same as that given to any patients: avoid only those activities that would meanimmediatedangerif a fit occurred.
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In a society in which everything can be bought and sold, culture is inimmediatedangerof commercialisation, which changes its nature.
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There isimmediatedangerof major disease and epidemic.
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These charges would vary according to the circumstances, and may be waived altogether in cases involvingimmediatedangerto human life.
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The problem must be tackled even if their properties are not inimmediatedanger.
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That is a thing which we have to watch for and guard against, but it is not a pressing andimmediatedanger.
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He may be of the opinion that there is noimmediatedanger, or that the remedial action necessary is of a very slight nature.
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Was not theimmediatedangerthat 20,000,000 or more people would starve?
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I have no reason to believe that they are inimmediatedanger.
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The important thing is that where there isimmediatedangeraction should be taken.
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They are designed to react swiftly to events where a child is inimmediatedanger.
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I am speaking about people who are in grave orimmediatedanger.
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In a sense those countries are not in the war as we are, because they are not inimmediatedangerof invasion.
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High secure beds are intended for those who pose a grave andimmediatedangerto others.
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If they had rejected the resolution, that would have created animmediatedangerof war.
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But in the social sciences there is a moreimmediatedangerwhich is equally important.
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Is there not a moreimmediatedangereven than war?
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They are designed to react swiftly to events where the child is inimmediatedanger.
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Other species which, though not inimmediatedanger, are considered likely to disappear if trade is not regulated are listed in a second appendix.
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