useful concept

collocation in English

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useful
adjective
uk
/ˈjuːs.fəl/us
/ˈjuːs.fəl/
effective; helping you to do or ...
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concept
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sept/us
/ˈkɑːn.sept/
a principle ...
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(Definition ofusefulandconceptfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofuseful concept

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Legal culture is a convenient andusefulconcept, but sometimes the event and the culture are inverted.
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This is a veryusefulconceptwhich also finds applications in higher-dimensional dynamics.
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This seems ausefulconceptin explaining some of the rapid demographic changes that have been recorded.
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This has proved ausefulconcept, so long as the notion of "program" is loosely interpreted.
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An operationallyusefulconceptof sustainability must refer to the persistence, viability and resilience of organic or biological systems, over their 'normal' lifespan.
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If we observe these rules, however, global mutable variables are ausefulconcept.
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The glossary is a useful addition, but the 'exercises' section, which is in principle ausefulconcept, is in fact sensationalist and unhelpful.
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But understanding the implementation of the processes involved in emotion does not mean that emotion itself as ausefulconceptat its own level will disappear.
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Hann (1998) argues that 'embeddedness' is still ausefulconceptin analysing property relations.
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Kinship is oneusefulconceptin mapping out a social network.
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The instability of this relationship from moment to moment, and its inter-subjective variability according to who is doing the categorising, make ' popular music' a cloudy, albeit stillusefulconcept. 13.
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Yield efficiency thus quantifies what cocoa breeders have long known: their breeding material varies in the ratio of vegetative to reproductive growth, and is ausefulconceptfor that reason.
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Is the soul ausefulconcept?
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Burns' social brain theory of schizophrenia implicitly assumes that schizophrenia is ausefulconceptin cross-cultural perspective.
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Therefore, although the internal layer may be ausefulconcept, it seems too simplistic to describe accurately the details of the recovery behaviour observed in the present experiment.
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To me, this is a much moreusefulconceptof planning than too much preoccupation with a single indicative target selected as a political decision.
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It is sensible that victims will be able to receive reparation from offenders, which is ausefulconcept, and financial compensation.
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It is ausefulconceptin an age when there are different layers of government.
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It is an extraordinarilyusefulconceptin theological or philosophical disputation but its value as a guide to practical experience and application is somewhat limited.
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