immediate effect
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimmediateandeffect
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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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effect
noun
uk/ɪˈfekt/us/əˈfekt/
the result of a ...
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Examplesofimmediate effect
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Itsimmediateeffectwas to bring the ferocious and often violent rivalries between trade unions into the workplace.
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This observation could be attributed to theimmediateeffectof organic materials on soil microflora and fauna and their coupled interaction.
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This and the antidepressant effect reported by individual patients suggest that the medication'simmediateeffectmay be most significant for how patients assess the drug.
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But theimmediateeffectwould be to aggravate the deficit and the reaction might be to make people think it only a first instalment.
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Theimmediateeffectof the strategies and the need for further investigation and treatment were measured within the first 3 months.
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For older boys fatherlessness was a more recent occurrence with littleimmediateeffecton stature.
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Because we intend these functions to have animmediateeffect, they are hyper-strict in their environment arguments.
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But theimmediateeffectof the music is not atonal.
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Mandatory schooling coupled with the fall in fertility during the demographic transition had theimmediateeffectof modifying the supply of family labour.
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In any case, the agreement had noimmediateeffecton (un)employment.
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For the initially compliant sub-sample, there is noimmediateeffectfrom entering the program, but we do observe a lagged effect.
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Theimmediateeffectof furosemide is to venodilate, but evidence suggests nitrates are more effective in this regard.
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Our results suggest that different routes of infection have animmediateeffecton within-host parasite growth and thus on parasite fitness and epidemiology.
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These findings suggest that an increase in developmentally more advanced structures was not animmediateeffectof treatment but a more delayed one.
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Prior to this, the necessary short day-low temperature induction of the plants had noimmediateeffecton the morphology of the apex.
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Itsimmediateeffectwas to create significant social arenas for the arbitrary exercise of power.
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So while coercive policy may have greaterimmediateeffectin meeting its goals, its indirect effects will, in general, be less than those of enabling policy.
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Enabling policies will be the most effective in the long term because they will have not only animmediateeffectbut also a multiplied indirect effect through positive feedback.
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The recommendations sawimmediateeffect.
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Theimmediateeffectof this recognition was confusion and an attempt to reconcile their article selection process with their newly acquired awareness of the mistakes they were making.
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