serious threat
collocation in Englishmeaningsofseriousandthreat
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serious
adjective
uk/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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threat
noun[C]
uk/θret/us/θret/
a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is ...
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(Definition ofseriousandthreatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofserious threat
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Fires pose a potentiallyseriousthreatto tropical forests.
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Political corruption, therefore, poses aseriousthreatto democracy.
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Emerging geminivirus problems: aseriousthreatto crop production.
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These exchanges took time, and our tight schedule was now underseriousthreat.
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Most of these flies traverse national boundaries and pose aseriousthreatto fruit production.
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Political corruption also poses aseriousthreatto the economic institutions that safeguard democracy and development.
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To do that he had to invent a sufficientlyseriousthreat.
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A moreseriousthreatcame from changes in the area's hydrology.
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Monetarists argued that inflation was aseriousthreatto any economy's long-term health.
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This could clearly pose aseriousthreatto the future of democracy itself.
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But noseriousthreatwould develop again for at least a decade.
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It is aseriousthreat.
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There is aseriousthreat.
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It was aseriousthreat.
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This is aseriousthreat.
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The mostseriousthreatto these peoples is represented by the commercial development of strategically important reserves of mineral resources.
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The center sensed (but too late) aseriousthreatto its monopolistic status in the strengthening of local elites' position.
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Instead, cosmic rays would only be aseriousthreatfor close sources (of the order of a few parsecs).
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This can pose aseriousthreatto apple cultivation in orchards in the vicinity of peach crops.
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This is surely not aseriousthreatto 'opt out', however, but rather a veiled request for support and reassurance.
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Thus, these infections pose aseriousthreatto the health and development of children in low income countries.
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As a result, the selected instruments would never pose aseriousthreatto the existing balance of power.
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It is aseriousthreatto peace.
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It poses a veryseriousthreat.
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That is a mostseriousthreat.
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