psychological barrier

collocation in English

meaningsofpsychologicalandbarrier

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psychological
adjective
uk
/ˌsaɪ.kəlˈɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating to the human mind ...
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barrier
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbær.i.ər/us
/ˈber.i.ɚ/
a long pole, fence, wall, or natural feature, such as a mountain or sea, that stops people from ...
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(Definition ofpsychologicalandbarrierfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As patients associate hospital settings with seriousness, decentralization may act as apsychologicalbarrierto the perceived need and subsequent uptake of these services.
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It is apsychologicalbarriermore than anything else.
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I suggest that that is the real discrimination in our society and that we face apsychologicalbarrierin society's perception of the disabled.
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It would be yet another horrificpsychologicalbarrierto the plumber who has enough business to take on an assistant.
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Thepsychologicalbarrierwhich water traditionally presented has very largely gone.
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I think this is largely due to the need to break down apsychologicalbarrier.
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In future negotiations over miners' pay we should recognise thepsychologicalbarrierto working underground.
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I think that is apsychologicalbarrierwhich needs to be broken down, but the remedy is very much in their own hands.
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With completion, it will break an age-oldpsychologicalbarrier, along with overcoming a physical barrier.
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I refer next to thepsychologicalbarrierwith regard to broadleaved planting.
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This is now the recognised physiological andpsychologicalbarrierbetween one stage of development and another.
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I think that a great deal of hard thinking should be applied to this matter to find a way of removing thatpsychologicalbarrier.
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To cut interest rates on the day we went through apsychologicalbarrierof that kind was very strange.
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Knowing this, there is often apsychologicalbarrierto co-operation between landlord and tenant.
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It is thepsychologicalbarrierwhich is so important.
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If we reserve a particularly terrible penalty for a particularly terrible crime, apsychologicalbarrieris raised against that crime.
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There is apsychologicalbarrieron agricultural businesses crossing the threshold that means that they are subject to rates for the first time.
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As apsychologicalbarrieris being built up, does he not think that the time really has come now for a bigger increase?
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That may be correct, but apsychologicalbarriercan be extremely important.
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It also provides a certainpsychologicalbarrierto the effective use of the clinic.
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