uneven development
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunevenanddevelopment
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uneven
adjective
uk/ʌnˈiː.vən/us/ʌnˈiː.vən/
not level, equal, flat, ...
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development
noun
uk/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/us/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes ...
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We do not claim that our hypothesis is valid for all children withunevendevelopment.
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Their interdefining relations always result in theirunevendevelopment, whereby demands for their further elaboration arise.
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In the political economy of the western states toward the end of the nineteenth century we see the less-advanced politics and economics ofunevendevelopment.
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They are designed to respond to the multiplication of regulators and theirunevendevelopmentby coordinating implementation of regulation by member states.
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Differentiation is a sign not of underdevelopment but ofunevendevelopment.
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In the 1920s, theunevendevelopmentof the internal economy generated considerable population pressure.
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Such movements were premised on theunevendevelopmentof colonial economies in which some areas became suppliers of labour while others became labour markets.
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Surelyunevendevelopmentof this magnitude would have raised some contemporary comment, or at the very least female migration.
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Industrial growth, for example, has everywhere been characterised byunevendevelopment+ between countries, regions and localities.
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Classroom observation indicates repeatedly that lack of progress stems fromunevendevelopmentof skills, because the skills associated with each activity develop unevenly if they are left undisturbed.
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Katz's major argument is that global economic restructuring transforms the scale ofunevendevelopment producing similar changes in the relationship between economic production and social reproduction in disparate local settings.
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Katz argues that global capitalism constantly produces geographies ofunevendevelopmentin its wake, reconfigurations that alter the relationship between economic and social reproduction across scales and space.
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We have learned with startling clarity over the past few years about theunevendevelopmentof the adolescent.
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In my view, it is not surprising that many difficulties arise fromunevendevelopment.
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That will happen because of theunevendevelopmentin rating valuation.
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One of my concerns has been theunevendevelopmentof living standards.
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Let us be clear that there isunevendevelopmentin the employment sector.
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It is a matter of theunevendevelopmentof capitalism.
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It is a classic example ofunevendevelopmentand of the core-periphery relationship.
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His phrase "unevendevelopment" may be nearer the truth.
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