large segment
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflargeandsegment
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large
adjective
uk/lɑːdʒ/us/lɑːrdʒ/
big in size ...
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segment
noun[C]
uk/ˈseɡ.mənt/us/ˈseɡ.mənt/
one of the smaller groups or amounts that a larger group or amount can be ...
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(Definition oflargeandsegmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflarge segment
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During eye dissection, alargesegmentof the optic nerve distal to the eyecup was preserved.
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This represents alargesegmentof the population at risk of getting the disease.
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Alargesegmentof low-paid state employees survive on incomes deriving from second or third jobs in the informal sector.
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The newly added measures were specifically aimed at young and the (very) long-term unemployed, who by then formed alargesegmentof total unemployment.
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In fact, as part of a strategic retreat that was resented by alargesegmentof its constituency, it may actually have backfired.
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He argued that by winning over alargesegmentof the popular classes, neopopulists gained legitimacy for their governments and the neoliberal policies they implemented.
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Sranan is unusual in that alargesegmentof its vocabulary is due to autonomous innovation.
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It is a popular dish, eaten in the home and sold on roadside cabins and in restaurants, thus exposing alargesegmentof the population to lettuce.
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Because encompassing organizations represent the interests of alargesegmentof society, their members share in both the benefits and the losses resulting from policies that affect their members.
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The trouble is that alargesegmentof the public almost certainly does not realise that defacing or removing signs constitutes an offence.
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We have lost alargesegmentof the green belt.
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This includes alargesegmentof coal bought at £47 a tonne, another segment at less than £42 and a smaller segment at the market.
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Trophy hunting of big cats or the ivory harvest of elephants may affect global diversity, national economics and the recreational and employment profiles of alargesegmentof many societies.
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It will, moreover, be all the more difficult to achieve the millennium objectives if such alargesegmentof the population is left out of consideration.
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Intense combat in the nation's most densely populated farming areas caused alargesegmentof the peasant population to flee to cities and to towns.
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Consequently, alargesegmentof the population is seriously poor.
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To consolidate such alargesegmentof moral philosophy, it becomes important to focus on what separates healthcare ethics from other forms of morality.
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There is alargesegmentof amino acids from position 297 to 400 that is not shown to be an immunoglobulin domain.
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