utter lack

collocation in English

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utter
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈʌt.ər/us
/ˈʌ.t̬ɚ/
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(Definition ofutterandlack-offrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofutter lack

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Measurement activities were very little impeded by theutterlackof consensus about what sorts of things heat and electricity were.
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It has shown anutterlackof confidence in itself.
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Theutterlackof security in that office and with regard to top-secret documents is surely a responsibility of his.
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They have wholly inadequate capital to run any business; many of them have anutterlackof experience, and others suffer from incorrigible laziness.
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There is anutterlackof purpose there.
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That was despite theutterlackof investment by the previous owners.
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That nervousness has led gradually to a complete andutterlackof knowledge among the managers of industry who seldom visit the countries.
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They were the sort of errors that showed a complete,utterlackof prudence and planning in the initiation of certain schemes.
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We wonder, because of theutterlackof any precise information.
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It is partly thisutterlackof understanding of the way things work that many of us find a little disconcerting.
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It shows anutterlackof intelligence.
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There is anutterlackof policy.
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I can only attribute the action of the authorities to theutterlackof commercial knowledge.
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We must hope for something very much better than this, because this shows anutterlackof grip and comprehension.
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These things happen, and they stem from a complete andutterlackof training.
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I am always astonished at theutterlackof achievement in foreign policy.
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It is all in the same strain—hopelessness and anutterlackof the realisation of their responsibility in the matter.
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There is anutterlackof definition of functions in the section dealing with coordination.
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Anutterlackof sanitation threatens cholera and typhoid.
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There was anutterlackof morality and consideration for tenants, who had been promised in not one but two letters that they could buy their own flats.
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