limited application
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflimitedandapplication
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limited
adjective
uk/ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/us/ˈlɪm.ɪ.t̬ɪd/
small in amount ...
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application
noun
uk/ˌæp.lɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌæp.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
an official request for something, usually ...
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(Definition oflimitedandapplicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thelimitedapplicationis more apparent than real.
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The finding may have onlylimitedapplicationelsewhere.
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The rarity of the approach is hardly surprising, given thelimitedapplicationof any findings.
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There has been alimitedapplicationof shape grammars to engineering design.
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Applied to the creation of individuals who are, or will become autonomous, it haslimitedapplication.
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This study was only able to involve well-orientated patients and, although the approach may have been effective, it may have alimitedapplicationand significant resource implications.
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This method may havelimitedapplicationto diseased vessels with length change in elastic lamina.
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Real-world policymaking is often constrained by institutional feasibility: lump-sum taxes have alimitedapplication, and policies involving intergenerational transfers likely need the support of the constituency.
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Just as the ethnographic school haslimitedapplicationfrom an experimental perspective, the experimental school is also restricted by its primatocentric, if not anthropocentric, focus on evolutionary and comparative issues.
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For species which do not produce seeds or are predominantly vegetatively propagated, conservation in seed form is either impossible or haslimitedapplicationin conserving specific genotypes.
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Portable telephones which can be used from a number of plug-in points, are installed in suitable cases, but the arrangement is oflimitedapplication.
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The words which are proposed to be left out have a verylimitedapplication.
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A few other allowances oflimitedapplicationare also issued tax-free.
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It has already been pointed out that diversification has a fairlylimitedapplicationon many farms.
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If it is oflimitedapplication, why legislate to put something right?
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All those measures, which we have adopted in recent times, are oflimitedapplication.
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For the time being he feels that this agreement may be oflimitedapplicationto us.
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It will be noted that we have followed the convention andlimitedapplicationonly to material used for peaceful purposes.
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For housing as a public social good, market laws can only have a verylimitedapplicationwithin the scope of public services.
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