immediate improvement

collocation in English

meaningsofimmediateandimprovement

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immediate
adjective
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/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/us
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/
happening or done without delay or very soon after ...
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improvement
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/us
/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/
an occasion when something gets better or when you make ...
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(Definition ofimmediateandimprovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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All patients hadimmediateimprovementdemonstrated by decreased peripheral edema and/or decreased venous engorgement.
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But there is noimmediateimprovementin style.
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This brought noimmediateimprovementto the trade situation, however, and, if anything, actually made it worse because of the increase in the cost of imports.
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I said that theimmediateimprovementnotice would no longer be immediate.
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The improvement in the material surroundings has led to animmediateimprovementin the social environment of the child.
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We have only to witness theimmediateimprovementin driving when a police patrol is actively engaged on a section of the highway.
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We concentrated on those sorts of areas, and got animmediateimprovementin the figures.
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The statement yesterday meant, first, that there can be noimmediateimprovementin the volume of our aid effort.
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The essential conclusion to emerge from these earlier studies is that there is no dramatic initiative which can be taken to effect animmediateimprovement.
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Animmediateimprovementis, unfortunately, not possible because of shortage of equipment and the high level of demand.
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The correct and full enforcement of animal welfare legislation is essential, as is theimmediateimprovementof the conditions of animal transport.
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He corrected this and noticed animmediateimprovementin the patient's colour.
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Often this has a quite dramatic effect, withimmediateimprovementin things like toilet habits, excessive food fadism and restlessness.
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I have been talking about ways of reducing the particulate emission from existing diesel engines and thus obtaining animmediateimprovementin urban air quality.
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The second proposal was for a programme of the essential repair andimmediateimprovement—that is, a programme of "patching".
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We are not thinking in terms of ultimate improvement by re-mechanisation, but ofimmediateimprovementhere and now.
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There is unlikely to be animmediateimprovement.
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The other enervating factor is that not only is there no prospect ofimmediateimprovement, there is no prospect of medium or even long-term improvement.
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This would produce at once a massive saving in over-manning and animmediateimprovementin democratic contact between the administrators and those being administered.
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I can offer noimmediateimprovement, but a real improvement is likely to be made in the foreseeable future.
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