key variable
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkeyandvariable
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key
adjective
uk/kiː/us/kiː/
very important and having a lot of influence on other people ...
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variable
noun[C]
uk/ˈveə.ri.ə.bəl/us/ˈver.i.ə.bəl/
a number, amount, or situation that ...
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(Definition ofkeyandvariablefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofkey variable
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The discussion above argued that akeyvariableomitted from such analyses is ideology.
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Thekeyvariablein this explanation is party control of the government.
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Thekeyvariablein the market situation is profit; in scientific measurement it is error.
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The author also tells us why racial categories are thekeyvariablein his research.
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The variable for party-switches is thekeyvariablein our hypothesis.
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Political culture does represent akeyvariablefor understanding processes of institutional reconstruction.
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Thekeyvariableestablishing the pension value is the number of working years.
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The ownership of stock on own-account is thekeyvariableof interest.
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Thekeyvariablewas time.
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Familiarity is therefore akeyvariable.
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Nonetheless, in line with the third hypothesis, discretion is akeyvariablein gauging the impact of states' incentives to deviate.
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The review is confined to studies which have looked at older people resident in the community and which focus upon loneliness as thekeyvariable.
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All taxa associated with thekeyvariablecan then be selected and plotted onto the appropriate palaeogeographical reconstruction.
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Akeyvariablefor the determination of the extent of deforestation is the wage rate; higher opportunity costs of labour will make cultivation on the forest margin unprofitable.
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In particular, they had come to see the quality of management as thekeyvariablein relation to productivity.
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Thus, policy image is akeyvariablein assessing the likelihood that external accountability policy will be adopted despite the politics of accountability.
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Thekeyvariableis metalinguistic awareness, which consists of a set of skills or abilities that the multilingual user develops due to her/his prior linguistic and metacognitive knowledge.
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The author seems to add substance in adducing, as anotherkeyvariable, the nature of leadership and its relationship with the single party.
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Although differences in modes of leadership were indeed crucial, thekeyvariablewas not style, or even charisma, but purpose, level of commitment.
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Accommodation is akeyvariable.
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