limited means
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflimitedandmean
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limited
adjective
uk/ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/us/ˈlɪm.ɪ.t̬ɪd/
small in amount ...
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mean
noun[S]
uk/miːn/us/miːn/
mathematicsspecialized
the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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(Definition oflimitedandmeanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflimited means
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Compared with the ancestral population, however, crossbreds have a verylimitedmeanincrease in viability at low levels of inbreeding, although their number of lethal equivalents is lower.
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Given the limited means at his disposal, this was an accomplishment he might justifiably wish to point out.
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Limited means of communication and highly decentralized and poorly accessible data seriously undermine feasibility of effectiveness studies.
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Isolated individual physicians had very limited means to contradict the interpretations and evaluations promulgated by the central producer-coordinator.
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The limited means of communication with certain subgroups, particularly the poorest people and those living in rural areas, may impede their enrollment in studies.
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This was a task far beyond its limited means.
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Given their very limited means, however, they have little or no chance of getting any land.
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But given their limited means, they have little or no chance of getting land.
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In an era when scientific expertise provided only a limited means of livelihood, men of science found the legal system to be a lucrative, if unappreciative, market for their expertise.
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Potters of limited means and restricted ambition began to find the range of products too large to handle, and the effort of reorganization too great to accept.
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For example, in countries where limited means of communication represent a real barrier to constituting a representative sample of the general population, tables of preference scores may not be practicable.
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First of all, stages provide a limited means of controlling the effect of a recursively defined function in terms of the relation between the depths of argument and result values.
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In it, the player tries to guide a family dynasty to power and wealth, starting from one character of limited means.
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Amateurs or observatories with limited means tuned their smaller, less sensitive instruments to ten seconds.
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Despite their limited means, they're still managing to make ends meet and provide for their son.
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The pioneer farmer's ignorance, his inadequate facilities for cultivation, his limited means, of transport necessitated his frequent changes of scene.
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It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people.
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He was a gifted child in a family of limited means, and showed an early musical talent in choral singing.
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