inadequate knowledge

collocation in English

meaningsofinadequateandknowledge

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inadequate
adjective
uk
/ɪˈnæd.ɪ.kwət/us
/ɪˈnæd.ə.kwət/
not good enough or too low ...
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knowledge
noun
uk
/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/
understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by ...
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(Definition ofinadequateandknowledgefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinadequate knowledge

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A limitation to the present computational results is theinadequateknowledgeof dissociation and recombination rates.
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Discussions with medical practitioners, social workers and teachers all indicate seriouslyinadequateknowledgeof effective contraceptive techniques among those at risk.
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We only haveinadequateknowledgeof the planned attacks, but we are sure of the detainee's involvement and of the attack's seriousness and imminence.
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The latter fault can result in firm conclusions being drawn frominadequateknowledge.
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In this section we will see situations in which customers compensate for their potentiallyinadequateknowledgeup front, before any signs of trouble, by accompanying terms with iconic hand gestures.
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The regeneration officials were seen as earning high salaries, while being geographically distant from the hard end and havinginadequateknowledgeof religious practices and local dynamics.
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Water rights within these areas were determined by property size and crop water consumption figures, based oninadequateknowledgeof actual plant water use and on inefficient irrigation methods.
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It will be amply repaid by future economies through the obviation of unnecessary pollution control measures which are imposed throughinadequateknowledgeand excessive caution.
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There is a veryinadequateknowledgeof it.
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Often they have aninadequateknowledgeof what is wanted.
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The answer is that sometimes there is eitherinadequateknowledgeof the availability of accommodation or an insufficient search for that accommodation.
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Some of these comparisons are based oninadequateknowledgeof the circumstances.
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First, there isinadequateknowledgeof to whom appeals should be addressed.
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I am not so foolish as to imagine that my own analysis, the fruit no doubt ofinadequateknowledge, is necessarily correct.
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Let us beware of taking into over-important positions of influence persons or bodies who haveinadequateknowledgeof that on which they are advising.
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But there are organisations and individuals who deliberately—and emphasise "deliberately"—exploit the consumers'inadequateknowledge.
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That is the picture as far as we can glimpse it from the basis ofinadequateknowledge.
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Many people leave school withinadequateknowledgeand with limited chances of getting demanding work in the knowledge society.
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Too often, however, action is patchy, unco-ordinated, too short term or based oninadequateknowledgeof what works or of what others are doing.
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