primary indicator
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprimaryandindicator
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primary
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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indicator
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪn.dɪ.keɪ.tər/us/ˈɪn.də.keɪ.t̬ɚ/
something that shows what a situation ...
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(Definition ofprimaryandindicatorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Research on the family is also aprimaryindicatorof the role and influence of the state during a period of rapid and unplanned development.
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By the mid-1930s faecal coliforms had become established as theprimaryindicatorof faecal pollution.
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He suggests that the patient must be the key decisionmaker in rehabilitation and sees this as being theprimaryindicatorof a quality service.
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Ourprimaryindicatorof socio-economic status, the socio-economic index, yields the most significant results.
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This puzzle is complicated by the fact that there is no singleprimaryindicatoror marker of "answering" - unlike "questioning," which is typically marked by interrogative syntax.
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Theprimaryindicatormay be the number of children.
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For example, if money is to be paid to local authorities for primary education, one considers the firstprimaryindicator, which is the number of children in schools.
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This results in reduced levels of skin and serum urocanic acid, theprimaryindicatorof insufficient histidase activity.
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Theprimaryindicator, perhaps, for differentiating process-based from other types of erosion models is the use of the sediment continuity equation discussed below.
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They dominate in water bodies without any fish predators and are used as aprimaryindicatorof predator presence.
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Subsequent loss of final, however, made a phoneme and theprimaryindicatorof plurality, leading to a distinction between mouse and mice.
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In fact, the stock market is often considered theprimaryindicatorof a country's economic strength and development.
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In fact, ritual activity is one of the primary indicators of status differentiation among domestic groups.
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Primary indicators are numerous trace fossils, which generally occur at parting surfaces of the fine-grained sandstones and shales.
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The diet of the deer, which consists of a variety of different types of grasses, leaves, and buds within the forest, is theprimaryindicatorof its habitat.
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All the primary indicators of the way in which our housing stock is developing show an unhealthy trend.
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There are primary indicators on which one makes the first calculations, and one can then adjust them by applying secondary indicators.
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Primary indicators basically count heads.
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Our primary indicators, which are principally monetary, are leading us towards a market society guided by pure economics.
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However, although outcomes are used as the primary indicators of program success or failure they are still insufficient.
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