inhospitable environment

collocation in English

meaningsofinhospitableandenvironment

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inhospitable
adjective
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/ˌɪn.hɒsˈpɪt.ə.bəl/us
/ˌɪn.hɑːˈspɪt̬.ə.bəl/
not welcoming or generous to people who ...
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environment
noun
uk
/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/us
/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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On the ground, in thatinhospitableenvironment, the troops show incredible discipline as their daily tasks involve risking their lives.
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Instead, it is used to provide aninhospitableenvironmentfor metastases so that they will not establish in other parts of the body.
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Its remoteness and the barren soil proved attractive to those people as the authorities were less likely to bother them in theirinhospitableenvironment.
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This attracted families and permanent settlers who established themselves in a harsh andinhospitableenvironment.
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Battling under such harsh economic conditions, the industry had to evolve its strategies of survival in suchinhospitableenvironment.
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These factors, combined with heavy rainfall and frost, made this aninhospitableenvironmentfor the first settlers.
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This is due to concerns for the safety of both the animals (loud noises and aninhospitableenvironment), and the participants.
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This yielded a virtuallyinhospitableenvironmentand may have instigated mass extinctions across the region.
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Serpentine soils normally provide aninhospitableenvironmentfor most plants.
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They have now spread throughout the country, being absent only in inhospitable environments.
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They are adapted to inhospitable environments that do not support many other forage species.
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Hot air rising from lower floors of a building often gets retained in the attic, further compounding their reputation as inhospitable environments.
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This force field allows the user to fly, travel through inhospitable environments (outer space, underwater, etc.), and enter hyperspace in order to move vast distances quickly.
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