prior experience
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpriorandexperience
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prior
adjective[before noun]
uk/praɪər/us/praɪr/
formal
existing or happening before something else, or before a ...
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experience
noun
uk/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofpriorandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The effect of thispriorexperiencecould induce misjudged conclusion.
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Many of these individuals had nopriorexperienceof financial markets or mutual funds.
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Our third measure ofpriorexperienceof financial markets is employment.
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Individuals who have private pension savings are more likely to care about their future pension, and also generally havepriorexperienceof financial markets.
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This was the person who hadpriorexperienceof brain gym, and already had positive expectations.
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It suggests that the capacity for imaginative construction is substantially influenced by one'spriorexperience.
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There are numerous hurdles, includingpriorexperiencewith an existing technique which may lead to inertia.
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These connections vary in strength due to the combined effects of the child'spriorexperience, just recent past, and immediate context.
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It is a decision based onpriorexperience, and one that emerges in the constant dialogue with the notation.
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For instance,priorexperienceof another language may endow participants with different processing primitives.
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This indicates that although forming an explicit style concept requires attention to a categorization problem, it can draw on perceptual regularities frompriorexperience.
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All children surveyed are in their second year at the pre-school and so have hadpriorexperiencewith the music programme.
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Three studies commented on experience of nonfiberoptic intubation techniques but did not explicitly state nopriorexperienceof fiberoptic intubation.
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Each performer brings to the piece their own habitual responses, conditioned by theirpriorexperience.
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The pediatric cardiologist, not the patient, haspriorexperienceof congenital heart defects and their knowledge is not symmetrical.
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Consequently, thepriorexperienceof maltreated children is thought to be reflected in these children's psychophysiological response.
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The difficulty with substance-linked functions holds even when children havepriorexperiencewith the objects and their abilities to carry out the functions.
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Procedures are established from the operator'spriorexperienceduring similar incidents and then fixed by the company.
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Research enables the architectural and environmental design professions to build uponpriorexperience through critical evaluation, innovation, and the creation of new knowledge.
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In sum, the facility sample consists of men withpriorexperienceand contacts with the criminal justice system.
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