later generation

collocation in English

meaningsoflaterandgeneration

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later
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈleɪ.tər/
us
/ˈleɪ.t̬ɚ/
happening at a time in the future, or after the time you ...
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generation
noun
uk
/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
all the people of about the same age within a society or within a ...
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(Definition oflaterandgenerationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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And so it is perhaps sometimes alatergenerationgiven to work out technical, theoretical ideas.
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The first generation of scanners was a head scanner while alatergenerationwas a whole-body scanner.
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Alatergenerationwill know better than his contemporaries what were the precise developments of policy which obliged him to resign.
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Alatergenerationhas been more concerned with the "process" through which local institutions evolved.
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For all its advantages of clarity, though, such a view enraged the sensibilities of alatergenerationof liberals.
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This commitment to empiricism, this disassociation from metaphysics as an invalid approach to research, were characteristics of alatergeneration.
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Given enough time, they'll probably morph into thelatergenerationof tanks that lined up against the protesting masses in 1953.
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Professionalism in social work - with graduate training in casework and group work grounded in psychoanalytic theory - influenced thelatergenerationof settlement house leaders in the 1920s and 1930s.
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I think the persistent vilification of musical modernism reveals a deeper issue than the reaction to a legitimizing rationalistic discourse by alatergenerationwith different ideological concerns.
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In attempting to reform that child we must ensure that the juvenile delinquent of today does not become the hardened criminal of alatergeneration.
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In alatergenerationthey secured for us that the people should control their trade.
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But it can be selfish and unwarranted if it prejudices the prospects of alatergeneration.
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He said that he would have preferred us to complete the economic agenda and leave the political agenda to alatergeneration.
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With alatergenerationthere came the motor car, the aeroplane, and the speed boat.
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In alatergeneration, in the licensing system which was originally intended to protect the public and restrict the publican, they have failed, it seems to me, by negligence.
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In alatergeneration, it was found that the "classic economics," as it was called, was not adequate, and that there was something more to aim at than wealth—namely, welfare.
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However, even that part of society using it as a term of art in trade or business may find that in alatergenerationit is no longer used.
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Internally, thelatergenerationmemories stored data on 32-bit boundaries, but were capable of reading across this boundary and supplying a merged result.
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