male population
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmaleandpopulation
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male
adjective
uk/meɪl/us/meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that fertilizes eggs, and does not produce babies or ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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(Definition ofmaleandpopulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The final class, labeled low antisocial (low), was the largest of themalepopulation(45.6%) and was characterized by low levels of antisocial conduct problems.
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Such males obviously represent a small, non-random fraction of the total adultmalepopulationin the local area.
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Themalepopulationis young or old and so not interested in any improvement.
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First, there were the residential towns where the adultmalepopulationwas expected to reside at all times.
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Figure 3 shows the cost-effectiveness acceptability curve for scenario 1 in the high-riskmalepopulation.
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But this is difficult to reconcile with the results obtained for themalepopulation.
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The discovery of oil brought sudden, fantastic wealth to the population and themalepopulationreturned.
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Sixty-two per cent of its adultmalepopulationare farmers and 21 per cent are laborers, most of whom periodically engage in agricultural labor.
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We are at present studying a normal adultmalepopulation, for which we have intelligence and personality scores.
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The totalmalepopulationof all social estates of these provinces in 1897 was 29,186,152.
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The nation'smalepopulationconstituted the state militias at times of internal and external threat.
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The incidence in relative figures is to 88/100,000 of themalepopulation, increasing with age.
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The well-to-do class of our society is dragging its women out of their homes to be infected by the same germs of westernism that have already spoiled ourmalepopulation.
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The third is that masculinity is unevenly distributed across themalepopulationinsofar as some men are ' more masculine ' on account of ' innate ' or socially acquired characteristics.
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The former represent 15 per cent of the total adultmalepopulation(42,816), which is the lowest estimate possible since figures do not include 20,313 day-labourers (47 per cent).
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It would have been interesting to see the changes in the same period in the proportion of landless married men in the overall totalmalepopulationin the same district.
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These figures suggest that the portion of themalepopulationengaged in lending and borrowing was considerably larger than the equivalent portion of the female population.
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Males under the age of 15 constituted a little over a third of themalepopulationwhereas only slightly over a quarter of females were under 15.
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