major flaw

collocation in English

meaningsofmajorandflaw

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major
adjective
uk
/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us
/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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flaw
noun[C]
uk
/flɔː/us
/flɑː/
a fault, mistake, or weakness, especially one that happens while something is being planned or made, or that causes something not to ...
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(Definition ofmajorandflawfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmajor flaw

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Lack of cultural competence is anothermajorflawin scholarship on youth of color.
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The onemajorflawin its presentation is the typesetting of the small cap constraint names, which is at times awkwardly disjointed.
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However, amajorflawis that she does not make clear how representative her examples are within the major sample.
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These minor quibbles are nothing compared to thatmajorflawthat for all appearances resided outside the author's control.
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While there is truth in this observation, it also contains amajorflawthat has long been understood by economists and others.
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Themajorflawin this otherwise beautiful picture is that, in practice, the intended interpretation is generally not a model.
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Themajorflawof the predictions of the hypothesis is that the two sickness benefits have faced serious cuts.
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These two faults are overshadowed by the onemajorflawof the book - its brevity.
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This is the onlymajorflawin an otherwise useful reference book.
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If the book has onemajorflawit is one of the rarest : it is too brief for what it intends to do.
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To end the paper without a discussion on the conservation of wildlife and the tourist industry would constitute amajorflawin our analysis.
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The approach has amajorflawin that the representational form and the control architecture are selected prior to the knowledge being extracted from the domain expert.
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I think that is amajorflawin current practice in this area.
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Themajorflawis on the wages front.
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The manner in which it has been handled exposes amajorflawin the purchaser-provider split.
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Themajorflawis that it does not deal with an individual patient's needs.
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Amajorflawin the review was exposed by the commission's report.
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The nextmajorflawlies in the wording of the referendum question.
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I suggest that is amajorflawin the clause.
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A furthermajorflawis the assumption that developing and emerging countries will be happy to fund their own energy efficiency measures.
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