acceptable standard
collocation in Englishmeaningsofacceptableandstandard
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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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standard
noun
uk/ˈstæn.dəd/us/ˈstæn.dɚd/
a level ...
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(Definition ofacceptableandstandardfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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What is clear is that, from a legal perspective, there is only oneacceptablestandardand that is the reasonable standard.
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Or put differently, what role do social policies play in aiding migrants and ethnic minorities to maintain anacceptablestandardof living?
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The important question here is whether dissimilar social policy constructions account for the differences in migrants' ability to enjoy a sociallyacceptablestandardof living.
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The challenge remains to find a generallyacceptablestandard.
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To harm someone in this sense is to make them worse off than they ought to be, relative to some reasonable oracceptablestandard.
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Such rapid urbanization creates pressures for provision of adequate water supply of anacceptablestandard.
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There is no agreement over the minimumacceptablestandard.
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As regards the future of the usage, my feelings are that it is on the increase and may one day become anacceptablestandardform.
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With 20 years of follow-up, breast conservation therapy is anacceptablestandardof care for the majority of patients with early-stage breast cancer.
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In response to these questions it would seem essential that healthcare institutions develop futility policies that contribute toward anacceptablestandardof practice.
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Very few singers had entered, none ofacceptablestandard, and only one with a voice that could pass for 'professional'.
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In this way we can establish the role of these policies in reducing poverty or, conversely, in maintaining a sociallyacceptablestandardof living.
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In a broad sense, decommodification refers to the ability to enjoy anacceptablestandardof living independently of market participation (1990: 37).
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This position, if it becomes ascendant, would severely undercut the defensive importance of ' 'custom' ' as the definitive indicator of theacceptablestandardof care.
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So far we have established that significant differences exist between citizen and immigrant households in maintaining a sociallyacceptablestandardof living.
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Where the performance of a particular worker is found to be below anacceptablestandardand there are sufficient workers to do the job, the worker is rejected.
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As a first step, we determine the incidence of households having a sociallyacceptablestandardof living: that is, the proportion of households above the poverty line.
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The second dimension refers to the degree of freedom of choice to provide care-giving work within the family under conditions which secure anacceptablestandardof living.
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With respect to the inherent possibilities of the system to provide care under conditions which secure anacceptablestandardof living, the potential for defamilisation is low.
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