proportion of output

collocation in English

meaningsofproportionandoutput

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proportion
noun
uk
/prəˈpɔː.ʃən/us
/prəˈpɔːr.ʃən/
the number or amount of a group or part of something when compared to ...
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output
noun[U]
uk
/ˈaʊt.pʊt/us
/ˈaʊt.pʊt/
an amount of something produced by a person, machine, factory, ...
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(Definition ofproportionandoutputfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For example, sharecropping involves advanced credit to the tenant in the form of deferred rent payment and input in exchange for a predeterminedproportionofoutputbut also labor.
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The total output would have been the tax base, and the tax amount would have been determined either as aproportionofoutputor as its cash equivalent.
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In this country, small businesses account for a smallerproportionofoutputand employment than in almost any other industrialised country.
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Theproportionofoutputfrom manufacturing has been declining for a long time not just in this country but far more widely.
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Allocations are related to theproportionofoutputwhich is to be exported and to the need for the products in the home market.
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There has been a similar increase in theproportionofoutputdevoted to trade in all other industrialised countries.
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A fixedproportionofoutputhas not been allocated to the home market in 1950.
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Information about theproportionofoutputexported is not at present available.
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In view of the importance of the needs of private growers aproportionofoutputis made available without licence to ironmongers.
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Theproportionofoutputexported will depend on market and other conditions at the time.
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From 1928 up to this year theproportionofoutputmechanically produced in this country has doubled.
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Similar information for the years 1954 to 1972 and the information on theproportionofoutputor land accounted for by small units cannot be provided without disproportionate cost.
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Originally, it referred to the ability of manufacturing processes to produce a very highproportionofoutputwithin specification.
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Theproportionofoutputgenerated by the livestock, forestry, and fishery sectors increased slowly after the 1950s.
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