potential audience

collocation in English

meaningsofpotentialandaudience

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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk
/pəˈten.ʃəl/us
/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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audience
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɔː.di.əns/us
/ˈɑː.di.əns/
the group of people together in one place to watch or listen to a play, film, someone ...
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(Definition ofpotentialandaudiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, it is not clear what thepotentialaudiencefor this volume is.
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However, the interview revealed that he is fully aware of the social and linguistic features of hispotentialaudience.
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This dynamic, she argues, had landed apotentialaudienceof thousands on the doorsteps of those city centre theatres.
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If thepotentialaudienceis large, several focus group sessions can be performed.
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Uriagereka has an ambitious target for hispotentialaudience: everyone from the educated layman to the specialist syntactician.
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In an important sense it served not merely to communicate some results to a particular individual but as an initial form of publication with a widerpotentialaudienceof researchers.
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Without a tradition to follow, aeronauts had to reach out to theirpotentialaudienceand help them navigate this new terrain in ways not necessarily required for other, pre-existing trades.
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Journalism was above all a tool for activist reform and political engagement that, in depth of discussion and breadth ofpotentialaudience, could extend far beyond drawing-room debate.
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While advocacy of such techniques is almost always a part of a program reinforcing disciplinary boundaries, statistical simplicity works in the opposite direction by broadening thepotentialaudiencefor research.
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Stereotyping them as old ladies with shopping trolleys meant that the theatre industry would miss out, both in terms of an enormouspotentialaudienceand as contributors.
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Thepotentialaudienceis greatly increased, which is all to the good.
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The radio points system (which measurespotentialaudience) will remain as the method for limiting holdings in radio.
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There is apotentialaudienceof about 10 million for video cassette recorders.
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It would be unfair to expect them to put into the pot an unreasonable amount on the basis that they have monopolised thepotentialaudience.
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Nevertheless, we are in this way probably depriving the cinema of a considerable number of itspotentialaudience.
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The essential fact to notice is that there is now taking place a vast expansion in thepotentialaudiencefor external broadcast services.
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It is not enough for a broadcaster to identify apotentialaudiencefor an event.
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It may be that the dome has not yet been marketed properly to thepotentialaudience.
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It went out to apotentialaudienceof 7 million.
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Is he aware that, with the constant increase in the number of receiving sets in many parts of the world, thepotentialaudienceis constantly increasing?
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