proper channel

collocation in English

meaningsofproperandchannel

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proper
adjective
uk
/ˈprɒp.ər/us
/ˈprɑː.pɚ/
real, satisfactory, suitable, ...
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channel
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtʃæn.əl/us
/ˈtʃæn.əl/
a television or radio station (= an organization that broadcasts television or ...
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(Definition ofproperandchannelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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And, second, the public want to know what is theproperchannel.
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If any owner is unreasonable in refusing access, it would be perfectly legitimate to proceed through theproperchannel.
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We are not providing aproperchannelof appeals.
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There is aproperchannelthrough which to start this, which is for the management committee to discuss the matter with the regional hospital board.
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I have no desire to prevent those with legitimate grounds for making a complaint or anxieties to express through theproperchannelfrom doing so.
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Is he satisfied that there is aproperchannelfor communication for all the latest information on radiation hazards?
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That is theproperchannelfor advice and help.
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And it is theproperchannelfor good practices.
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Milk retailers and wholesalers through their licensed organisation have a perfectly reasonable andproperchannelof what might be called punitive administration.
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I think theproperchannelhas been taken.
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Liberals have long advocated the need for aproperchannelof complaint and for impartial investigation of such complaints.
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If theproperchannelwere functioning properly, we should not get the grievances that we are getting, for instance, the genuine complaint of lower-deck promotion.
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Aproperchannelfor this must be worked out.
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These are matters that should be dealt with through theproperchannel.
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What would be theproperchannelfor them to use?
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It will take patience and toleration if we are to turn the flood of student power in our country into itsproperchannel, its real objective, of academic freedom.
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If any of them had had a genuine cause for complaint about what was being done there was a perfectlyproperchannelof communication through which to make that complaint.
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We say that their efforts will divert the main stream of industry, take it from itsproperchannelof national adaptability, and make it less productive.
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It is easy to handle in the sense of being able to extract it from theproperchanneland use it in a way which was never intended.
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Theproperchannelis selected by a user.
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