acceptable form

collocation in English

meaningsofacceptableandform

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acceptable
adjective
uk
/əkˈsept.ə.bəl/us
/əkˈsept.ə.bəl/
satisfactory and able to be agreed to or ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofacceptableandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofacceptable form

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I'd love to create a form, anacceptableform, where people can sing and talk and it can be drama and music.
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This had made protekce into anacceptableformof behaviour.
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Their first tactic involved stating their goals in legallyacceptableform.
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I took some consolation in the belief that the student's sneaked should not have been redacted because it is, after all, anacceptableform, even the preferred one.
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Public humiliation was no longer anacceptableformof social control.
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Part of the attractiveness of a choice-based notion of consent and its counterpart - exit as the onlyacceptableformof dissent - is that it tolerates conflicting evaluations.
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Another solution is to choose musical material which is likely to be familiar, at least to teachers, and build new activities out of it: anacceptableformof smuggling!
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This mechanism allows us to evaluate every binder as it is, with no need to discard some as unsafe or to rewrite others to a moreacceptableform.
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The onlyacceptableformof harmonisation would standardise social protection and working conditions to the highest level.
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Using drugs is not anacceptableformof recreation.
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However, he has made all sorts of alterations and it is now in a far moreacceptableform.
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I should imagine that it is a veryacceptableformof help—and even more so, the road building which is going on.
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They might then have been put into a perhaps moreacceptableform.
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It said that the computer could not cope with information that was not in anacceptableform.
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A moreacceptableformof words to deal with them ought to be devised.
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They have allowed the attitude to residential caravan dwellers to grow up in a way suggesting that this is anacceptableformof residential use.
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However, by tolerating domestic violence, we condone it as anacceptableformof behaviour.
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I do not think that nowadays that is regarded as anacceptableformof personnel management.
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I hope that we shall have devolution eventually, in a much moreacceptableformthan the present proposals envisage.
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