serious shortcoming
collocation in Englishmeaningsofseriousandshortcoming
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serious
adjective
uk/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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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 ofseriousandshortcomingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofserious shortcoming
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In relation to gender issues, however, the report suffers from aseriousshortcoming.
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Such a contrast is unattested among the world's languages, and this situation points to peak prominence's mostseriousshortcoming.
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Given the time constraints experienced by physicians in contemporary medical practice, this extended use of time appears to be aseriousshortcoming.
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Appealing as the conceptual selection process may seem, it suffers from aseriousshortcoming.
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This is aseriousshortcoming.
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This would be aseriousshortcomingif it were true to this extent.
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It is not any good trying to patch up thisseriousshortcomingin our countryside.
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This creates aseriousshortcomingin the supervision of recognised bodies.
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It would certainly be inadequate and aseriousshortcomingof that advice if a comparison were not made.
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Is he aware that this is aseriousshortcomingin our entertainment scene?
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The mostseriousshortcomingis of course that unemployment is not one of the criteria.
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That is regarded by the guardians of our internal state security as aseriousshortcoming.
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I have already identified aseriousshortcomingin these tax concessions for an initial transitional period.
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It has also become apparent that we are facing aseriousshortcoming, namely, the general lack of cooperation between rail, road and air transport.
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Therefore, that is aseriousshortcoming.
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This had theseriousshortcomingthat every authority's grant depended in part on every other authority's grant and therefore authorities could not know precisely how much grant they would receive.
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Thirdly, its mostseriousshortcomingis that it conflates magnitude with intensity.
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But even when judged merely as descriptive systems, traditional metrics exhibits serious shortcomings, a few of which we point out below.
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I critically examine the thesis about integrated empirical ethics and argue that it has serious shortcomings as a model for analysis of complex bioethical issues.
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The difficulty of handling the wire itself when necessary was arguably the onlyseriousshortcoming, among several definite advantages, of steel wire as a monophonic recording medium.
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