unpopular measure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunpopularandmeasure
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unpopular
adjective
uk/ʌnˈpɒp.jə.lər/us/ʌnˈpɑː.pjə.lɚ/
not liked by ...
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measure
noun
uk/ˈmeʒ.ər/us/ˈmeʒ.ɚ/
a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with ...
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(Definition ofunpopularandmeasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Those things can be done; but they can be done only if there is the courage to take e veryunpopularmeasure.
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This subsection is going to be a veryunpopularmeasure.
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Like the health service reforms, that was a deeplyunpopularmeasurewhich was rammed through ignoring all advice.
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I agree that the earnings rule is a mostunpopularmeasure, but the campaign to abolish the rule has become a populist cause.
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I think that there would be no moreunpopularmeasureamong women than this granting of the suffrage to them.
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This is the mostunpopularmeasurein the country.
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To discriminate between various owners or tenants in different parts of the country is most invidious and will rightly be anunpopularmeasure.
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I readily accept that some think that the new clause will be anunpopularmeasure.
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It abolishes a complicated and generallyunpopularmeasure.
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Of course, that was a veryunpopularmeasurebecause people did not like leashing their animals.
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That will save them from having to introduce anunpopularmeasure.
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He has carried through thisunpopularmeasurewith his usual skill.
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It may be retorted that it is anunpopularmeasure, and that there is no great enthusiasm for it amongst any section of the industry.
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I realise that this was anunpopularmeasure.
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I believe this is going to be a veryunpopularmeasure.
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This is anunpopularmeasure.
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Here every right butunpopularmeasureis bound to be exploited by all three parties in turn, and we have seen that again and again in the last 10 days.
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We have got to harden our hearts and not let up on the credit squeeze although we know perfectly well that it is a veryunpopularmeasure.
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Kempfer was criticized for her support of theunpopularmeasure.
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Theunpopularmeasurewas completely repealed in 1887.
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