useful supplement

collocation in English

meaningsofusefulandsupplement

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useful
adjective
uk
/ˈjuːs.fəl/us
/ˈjuːs.fəl/
effective; helping you to do or ...
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supplement
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsʌp.lɪ.mənt/us
/ˈsʌp.lə.mənt/
something that is added to something else in order to improve it or complete it; ...
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(Definition ofusefulandsupplementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is likely to prove a uniquelyusefulsupplementfor course work and should be available in all good libraries.
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As such it is an excellent text that can serve as ausefulsupplementto existing histories of linguistics.
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The music they played was within an aural culture and most of them learned by ear although they tended to regard notation as ausefulsupplement.
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The harmful dysfunction analysis is ausefulsupplement, it will be argued, to criteria for disorder suggested by some developmental psychopathologists, such as developmental deviation or predictive validity.
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We are funding continued research because we accept that a test would be ausefulsupplementto the licensing controls that we are proposing.
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It may prove ausefulsupplementto their proposals.
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In the light of those circumstances, if it were useful it could well make ausefulsupplementto the regulations themselves.
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Private sites provide ausefulsupplementto local authority sites, but there are not enough local authority sites.
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This proposal, which is permissive only, is ausefulsupplementto the quota provision, but it is not fundamental to the general scheme.
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This is ausefulsupplementto what building societies and other private agencies are doing.
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Rabbit meat is ausefulsupplementto the meat ration, especially as providing variety, but it cannot be regarded as an essential food.
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I understand that this covers the conversion of traditional trawlers to freezer trawlers and is obviously ausefulsupplementto previous legislation.
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I hope that this scheme will make a veryusefulsupplementto the permanent building programme.
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We believe that this will be ausefulsupplementto the resources that they have to assist their students.
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I welcome the survey as ausefulsupplementto the information contained in earlier surveys of disability.
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They would be hutted camps and would be ausefulsupplementto billeting under any evacuation scheme in the event of war.
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The tax and price index continues to be ausefulsupplementto the retail prices index.
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As the power will relate to identifiable individuals, it will not supplant the general canvass process but will be ausefulsupplementto it.
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That would have been ausefulsupplementfor that element of the poll tax which they find they are unable to collect.
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It provides ausefulsupplementto the information contained in the retail price index.
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