acceptable outcome

collocation in English

meaningsofacceptableandoutcome

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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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outcome
noun[C usually singular]
uk
/ˈaʊt.kʌm/us
/ˈaʊt.kʌm/
a result or effect of an action, ...
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(Definition ofacceptableandoutcomefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofacceptable outcome

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Some of the alternatives may turn out to be incorrect, since they do not compute anacceptableoutcome.
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That tariff rebate subsidy increases as economic activity increases might therefore be considered anacceptableoutcome.
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It is more than encouraging to see that there has been anacceptableoutcometo this long process.
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The question is what is the most appropriate way forward to deliver anacceptableoutcome.
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I understand that the people involved already know that they will be withdrawn from their respective sites, subject to anacceptableoutcometo the trial.
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For us, the onlyacceptableoutcomeis for environmental legislation to be allowed to be precisely that.
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There could have been scope in the interpretation of the statutory requirements for bringing about a fairer and moreacceptableoutcometo the inquiry.
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From the point of view of the organisation that must be anacceptableoutcome.
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That does not seem to me to be anacceptableoutcome.
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Arbitration should be simple and cheap and should be anacceptableoutcomeand procedure.
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If a compromise were found on that basis, we would regard it as anacceptableoutcome.
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Once our country is engaged upon war, there is only oneacceptableoutcome, and that is victory.
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It would be helpful also if he would accept that going on to an approved voluntary scheme would be anacceptableoutcome.
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Partition in any form is not anacceptableoutcome.
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I do not consider that anacceptableoutcome.
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We should also recognise there are areas where even in exercising such judgment, there is more than one morallyacceptableoutcome.
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The inevitable and perfectlyacceptableoutcomeof the changes which the schedule makes is that people will make such choices at different times in their lives because of different pressures.
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Any such scheme would need to address how to deal with transitional effects and how to ensure anacceptableoutcomefor different groups of customers, particularly vulnerable consumers.
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That is not anacceptableoutcome.
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