key determinant
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkeyanddeterminant
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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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determinant
noun[C]
uk/dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nənt/us/dɪˈtɝː.mɪ.nənt/
formal
something that controls or affects what happens in a ...
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(Definition ofkeyanddeterminantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The availability of food is akeydeterminantof insect spatial pattern.
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An individual's shadow wage is akeydeterminantof the intensity of exploitation in an artisanal fishery.
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One conclusion from this is that economic security is akeydeterminantof planning and this means that people have different capacities to plan.
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It is not poverty in itself but how it is allowed to constrain possibilities that is thekeydeterminant.
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One would suspect that the personal characteristics of the prime minister and differences in the government will be akeydeterminantof ministerial tenure.
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Akeydeterminantof the impact of trade in health services will be the general economic and trade context of the country concerned.
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The supply of water to the plant from flowering to maturity is akeydeterminantof crop yield.
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This reveals age as akeydeterminantof when and how staff left, and whether any members of their age cohort were recruited.
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Anotherkeydeterminantis whether villagers perceive elections to be valuable political activities.
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Bequests are akeydeterminantof inequality, and careful modeling of bequests is vital to understanding wealth concentration.
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We have pointed out that the level of competition in the market (however measured) is probably anotherkeydeterminantof actual policy interest rates.
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It is also akeydeterminantof the marginal product of labor in each sector.
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Yet, in either case, the prevalence of nuclear households appears to be akeydeterminant.
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An individual's shadow wage is akeydeterminantof the intensity of exploitation in an artisinal fishery.
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A finalkeydeterminantof organised labour's political strength is the nature of its relationship with key political parties, especially the ruling party.
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Fashion was akeydeterminantof consumer appeal for expatriates, ever anxious to underline their continued links to the metropole.
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The behavior of the swing-hip roll angle is thekeydeterminantfor the lateral stability of bipedal walking.
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Health status is in turn akeydeterminantof labour productivity (development).
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We find in particular that ideological closeness alone cannot explain cohesiveness but that the effectiveness of transnational party groups is akeydeterminantof their voting cohesion.
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