transitional stage
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftransitionalandstage
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transitional
adjective
uk/trænˈzɪʃ.ən.əl/us/trænˈzɪʃ.ən.əl/
belonging or relating to a change, or the process of change, from one form or type ...
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stage
noun[C]
uk/steɪdʒ/us/steɪdʒ/
a part of an activity or a period ...
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(Definition oftransitionalandstagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftransitional stage
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The situation is sometimes little more than atransitionalstagein a general language shift.
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Courtship, within the historically specific context of near 'total marriage ', constituted atransitionalstagebetween gendered youth and gendered adulthood.
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However, the question is whether we are dealing with atransitionalstageor with an episode of structural institutional transformation.
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Responses of preadolescent and some adolescent subjects (about 6 -14 years) are characteristic of thetransitionalstage.
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In other words, some bilingual children seem to pass through a rather longtransitionalstagebefore fully converging with the target-grammar.
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Such spellings are thought to predominate during thetransitionalstage.
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In other words, we have skipped atransitionalstageof development.
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These spellings are thought to occur during thetransitionalstage.
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In other words, we have evidence for a rather longtransitionalstagein these children.
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Additionally, lake shores are little influenced by river inflow and exhibit atransitionalstagebetween oversupplied and sediment-starved conditions.
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This might represent an earlytransitionalstageto a hypereactive adrenal.
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The upshot of this experiment is the suggestion that seven- to eight-year-old children are at atransitionalstagein their understanding of substances and of functions associated with substances.
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To conclude, left-branching may be viewed as an unstable structure in that it represents atransitionalstagebetween right-branching and a decrease in mor phological complexity.
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March represented thetransitionalstagemonth for the leafing phenophase of this species.
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Looking ahead, that suggests that perhaps our current questions concern only atransitionalstagein the research.
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Let us provide for those who will be without it in thetransitionalstage.
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Obviously there will be atransitionalstage, and during that stage there will be, as there clearly have been, social strains.
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They see variable geometry as no more than atransitionalstageto the ever closer union.
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