valid question

collocation in English

meaningsofvalidandquestion

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valid
adjective
uk
/ˈvæl.ɪd/us
/ˈvæl.ɪd/
based on truth or reason; able to ...
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question
noun
uk
/ˈkwes.tʃən/us
/ˈkwes.tʃən/
a sentence or phrase used to find ...
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(Definition ofvalidandquestionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvalid question

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In our view this is avalidquestion.
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This is avalidquestion.
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That is a perfectlyvalidquestion.
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It is a veryvalidquestion.
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It is a perfectlyvalidquestion.
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He asks a perfectlyvalidquestion.
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That is a veryvalidquestion.
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I think that is avalidquestion.
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I am asking a perfectlyvalidquestion.
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Dealing with unemployment leads to thevalidquestionof growth.
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That is avalidquestionwhich should be explored.
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Avalidquestionis whether registration should be compulsory.
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It seemed to me to be a perfectlyvalidquestion.
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I believe that is still avalidquestion.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It does leave, of course, the perfectlyvalidquestionof the precise grounds on which word classes and other categories can be and are identified crosslinguistically.
From theCambridge English Corpus
That is a veryvalidquestion, but it hardly occurs at this particular point.
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They all agreed that the doctor had raised avalidquestionrequiring careful investigation.
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I think that is not avalidquestionat this stage.
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I still think that that is avalidquestionwhich should be answered.
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That is avalidquestionto which the answer is unclear.
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She asks a perfectlyvalidquestion: is not all this taking a great deal of time?
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That is avalidquestionwhich a public inquiry should be asking.
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Will he give a clear answer to that real andvalidquestion?
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There is avalidquestionconcerning how we control farm-scale trials, where they take place and within what limits.
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When we talk about issues of concern, it is avalidquestionthat you might take up.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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