immediate threat
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimmediateandthreat
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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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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 ofimmediateandthreatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The evocation of this emotive concept assumed animmediatethreatto familial honor and integrity.
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The union shop posed a moreimmediatethreatto many of these smaller employers than the corporation.
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There seems to be noimmediatethreat.
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Therefore, there is noimmediatethreat.
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However, that merely removes theimmediatethreat.
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What is theimmediatethreatof hostilities?
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The plots are underimmediatethreatfrom illegal logging.
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This is not a distant but animmediatethreat.
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They faced an obvious andimmediatethreatto their businesses.
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However, there is a moreimmediatethreatfor conurbations.
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However, commanders had to plan for the continuing,immediatethreat.
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However, we have to consider theimmediatethreat.
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Numerous studies illustrate the negative effects of dysphagia,4,6-9 even when the underlying swallowing impairment poses noimmediatethreatto physical health.
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The presence of dysphagia has significant health, quality-of-life and economic consequences even when it does not represent animmediatethreatto survival.
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If so, how real is theimmediatethreatof external aggression of those territories?
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Clearly, there is less of animmediatethreatto our security.
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I am not aware of anyimmediatethreatto holidaymakers from a major failure.
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There may be noimmediatethreatof violence—the subject is only carrying out reconnaissance.
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How much should our nation spend on defence in the absence of animmediatethreat?
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Long-term planning and development had to be abandoned in the face of theimmediatethreat.
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There may be noimmediatethreatof violence; the suspect is only scouting—carrying out reconnaissance.
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Psychologically you can raise a force like this when there is animmediatethreat.
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The 44-year-old cruiser posed no kind ofimmediatethreatat the time.
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It follows that it will not be possible to deal with animmediatethreatto demolish.
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