prime determinant

collocation in English

meaningsofprimeanddeterminant

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prime
adjective[before noun]
uk
/praɪm/us
/praɪm/
main or ...
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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 ofprimeanddeterminantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Is it not clear that theprimedeterminantof sterling is the level of interest rates?
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In pursuit of their single and limited aim of keeping down inflation, theprimedeterminantof their economic policy is the exchange rate.
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I have nothing against using the exchange rate as aprimedeterminantof economic policy.
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At the moment, age is theprimedeterminantof service provision for those young people.
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He started by saying that the market was theprimedeterminant.
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They used to believe that theprimedeterminantof economic growth was the level of demand.
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Would a new classroom, a new gymnasium or an extra teacher be made available only if, in its wisdom, the county council decided that socio-economic needs were theprimedeterminant?
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Of course, the industry operates within a market economy and theprimedeterminantof its success is the ability and enterprise of those directly engaged in it.
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After all, the prime determinants of any business enterprise are the competence and vision of all those working in the business, the adequacy of finance, luck and good motivation.
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It is also because the performance of manufacturing industry is one of the prime determinants of the overall growth of productivity and hence of the competitiveness of the economy.
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