acceptable substitute

collocation in English

meaningsofacceptableandsubstitute

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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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substitute
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsʌb.stɪ.tʃuːt/us
/ˈsʌb.stə.tuːt/
a thing or person that is used instead of another thing ...
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(Definition ofacceptableandsubstitutefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Orleans 201 ' contains sermons, 'liturgical dramas' (a term that has been questioned, but without a universallyacceptablesubstitute) and a few sequences.
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Unless we have anacceptablesubstitutefor the present planning procedures, the public inquiry is an essential part of that process.
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Although we are all critical of the rating system, nobody has yet devised anacceptablesubstitutefor the present system.
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It is most unlikely that municipal or housing association accommodation, as recommended in paragraph 17.28, will be anacceptablesubstitute.
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A memorial park created under those circumstances will not constitute anacceptablesubstitutefor the creation of a national memorial park to honour civilians nationally.
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However, the performance characteristics of current simulator technology do not provide anacceptablesubstitutefor low flying training.
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Nevertheless, it remains essential that actual aircraft carcass fires are tackled in training, since there is noacceptablesubstitutefor this practice.
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Assuredly, extensions of "conditional fees" afford no viable oracceptablesubstitutefor the safety-net provision of legal aid.
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I am talking about whether there is anacceptablesubstitutefor it.
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Such an arrangement would be too uncertain and too open to evasion to be, by itself, anacceptablesubstitutefor properly controlled disarmament.
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Anything is anacceptablesubstitutefor that.
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In this connection, whatever theorists may argue as an abstract proposition, over the centuries noacceptablesubstitutehas been found for gold as a standard or store of value.
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They need to be encouraged, sometimes, as anacceptablesubstitutefor the car, perhaps even for those who find a change to the bicycle too drastic.
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In non-computing usefor example in mathematics, physics and general typographythe broken bar is not anacceptablesubstitutefor the vertical bar.
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Thinly sliced purple cabbage isacceptablesubstitutewhen banana blossoms are not available.
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Gentamicin 5 mg/kg by intramuscular injection once daily for seven days is anacceptablesubstitutewhen streptomycin is not available or contraindicated.
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Free-range eggs are considered by some advocates to be anacceptablesubstituteto factory-farmed eggs.
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In conclusion, the rapid absorption of nicotine from snuff confirms its potential as anacceptablesubstitutefor smoking.
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In the absence of hair on the head, body hair can be used as anacceptablesubstitute.
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