useful mechanism
collocation in Englishmeaningsofusefulandmechanism
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useful
adjective
uk/ˈjuːs.fəl/us/ˈjuːs.fəl/
effective; helping you to do or ...
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mechanism
noun[C]
uk/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/us/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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(Definition ofusefulandmechanismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is therefore dif cult to say yet whether it is ausefulmechanismfor improving primary care.
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Using frameworks developed from oral interaction, she showed how computer-mediated interaction provided ausefulmechanismfor helping learners achieve higher levels of metalinguistic awareness.
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This turns out to be a surprisinglyusefulmechanism.
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Coupled with conservatism, indirect negative evidence can be ausefulmechanismfor avoiding overgeneralization of complex syntactic structures.
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The longevity of a rhetorical form of clanship sprang partly, however, from the perception that it was ausefulmechanismfor lobby politics.
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In sum, changes in higher education courses, and partnerships with and within music services, might serve as ausefulmechanismfor the better.
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These partnerships will provide ausefulmechanismfor building commitment for change and reform.
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My view is that it is ausefulmechanism.
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The other place can be ausefulmechanismfor that purpose.
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The caution might become a lessusefulmechanismthan at present.
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Clamping is of course ausefulmechanismin the right place at the right time.
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At a time of falling stock markets and equities, an alternative to an annuity would provide ausefulmechanismfor cash investment and would probably have a rather better yield.
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Conciliation proceedings are most certainly ausefulmechanismin the legislative process, but they become futile and pointless if participants are not prepared to negotiate and to compromise.
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Thirdly, tax competition is ausefulmechanism.
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We have long believed that a properly-structured international conference would, at the right time, be ausefulmechanism, but a conference is a technique, not an end in itself.
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Family credit has proved to be ausefulmechanismfor relieving poverty among low paid workers and families.
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Punishing (it) protects reputation only at the cost of expunging a genuinelyusefulmechanismfor public debate.
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This propensity to anthropomorphise should not be seen as a hindrance to social system development, but rather ausefulmechanismthat requires judicious examination and employment in social system research.
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However, our enterprise has been to discover useful mechanisms for supporting design space exploration.
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Certain characteristics, when compared to serial manipulators, such as high payload-to-weight ratio, high rigidity, high accuracy and high-speed motion have made them useful mechanisms for certain applications.
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