lost generation
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflostandgeneration
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lost
adjective
uk/lɒst/us/lɑːst/
not knowing where you are and how to get to ...
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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 oflostandgenerationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thislostgenerationof people will never again have the opportunity.
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But over the past 17 years alostgenerationhas arisen.
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But given a lack of stability and an absence of the right kind of priorities they can become alostgenerationinfected by disenchantment.
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If we are not careful, these young people will represent alostgeneration.
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What about thatlostgenerationof parents who do not know how best to feed their children?
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In these countries, the former child soldiers are largely overlooked, abandoned and treated as alostgeneration.
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They were alostgeneration.
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At the end of it, the chief executive spoke movingly of the "lostgeneration"—the phrase came to his lips.
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Untrained young people with no work experience represent alostgenerationof countless thousands that we cannot afford.
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Its aim is to widen access to education, and to re-engage what is almost alostgeneration.
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They are young people and will not regard themselves as alostgenerationand not be prepared to do something about it.
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On that basis, we could be identifying alostgeneration.
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Nevertheless, our young people have become part of thelostgeneration.
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They are alostgeneration, which is why our policies are addressed significantly to that group.
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If that belief is lost in the future, we face the prospect of alostgenerationof children.
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Indeed, those schemes may be part of the reason why we have alostgenerationof young people.
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We had anotherlostgenerationthen because we forgot our standards and our quality.
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They are part of thelostgenerationof voters for all parties.
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The people involved in drugs are also part of thelostgeneration.
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In 1981 and 1982 there may well be a wholelostgenerationof trainees as has already been implied this afternoon.
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