major shortcoming
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandshortcoming
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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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shortcoming
noun[C usually plural]
uk/ˈʃɔːtˌkʌm.ɪŋ/us/ˈʃɔːrtˌkʌm.ɪŋ/
a fault or a failure to reach a ...
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(Definition ofmajorandshortcomingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Amajorshortcomingof the optimal currency area approach is, in fact, its lack of political and historical dimensions.
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Themajorshortcomingof data regarding outcomes in pregnant women with mechanical heart valves is that the true rate of anticoagulation failures is unknown.
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This is not necessarily amajorshortcoming, since there are well-known algorithms that convert left-recursive grammars into right-recursive ones.
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Amajorshortcomingarose from the nature of the data.
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However, we also realise that amajorshortcomingof our current design is in the inability to reuse other consensus ontologies.
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Paradoxically, however, the book'smajorshortcomingis its publication date of 2005.
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Amajorshortcomingin the book as published is the absence of the data set that underpins its conclusions.
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Onemajorshortcomingof the data should be mentioned.
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This doubt illustrates amajorshortcomingof the book; the authors nowhere give direct credit to their sources.
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This exposes themajorshortcomingof this book - as a collection of papers resulting from a distinguished workshop on a single theme, this book is a disappointment.
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However, there is onemajorshortcoming.
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Amajorshortcomingof many theories is that the link between a theory of an agent and an implementation of an agent is informal and intuitive.
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However, the original project did not set out a list of priorities, amajorshortcoming.
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We have clearly identified amajorshortcomingin the regulatory system: the regulator does not have to take account of the rewards that companies pay their staff when determining prices.
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Amajorshortcomingis the lack of published studies of both the individual stroke structures, and the clusters of individual stroke structures.
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Hismajorshortcoming, he had decided, was his deficiency as a public speaker.
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Themajorshortcomingof the guidelines was the lack of a business philosophy to track value for the inputs of effort and resources.
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Anothermajorshortcomingis that they system does not support any transmission of data.
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However, the service ceiling is onemajorshortcomingfor this plane.
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