viable alternative
collocation in Englishmeaningsofviableandalternative
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viable
adjective
uk/ˈvaɪ.ə.bəl/us/ˈvaɪ.ə.bəl/
able to work as intended or able ...
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alternative
noun[C]
uk/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/us/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
something that is different from something else, especially from what is usual, and offering the possibility ...
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(Definition ofviableandalternativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofviable alternative
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The lack of aviablealternativemeant that the existing paradigm was preserved, even in the face of apparent policy failure.
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Relying on public transport was not aviablealternative: it elongated journeys, and extra time was needed to walk to the final destination.
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Employment in the urban garment factories is no longer aviablealternativefor the rural population.
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Due to their substantial overgeneration problems, foot-minimality restrictions fail to offer aviablealternative.
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Instead, as aviablealternative, several 'environment-sensitive' bisimulations have been proposed.
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The innateness hypothesis is therefore presented as the onlyviablealternativeto account for how language is acquired.
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The present findings suggest that saffron might be aviablealternativeto the high-cash value illicit crops.
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Thus, it is important to provide the children with aviablealternativethat may be labelled with the compound.
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However, the book is much stronger in its critique of adjustment policies than it is in providing a vision of aviablealternative.
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In the absence of anyviablealternative, most secular women chose the lesser of two evils: the state.
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We show that our approach is feasible in terms of both accuracy and computational resources, and thus is aviablealternativeto pure concept spotting.
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Although displaced by the rise of the 'sanitary landfill' by the 1930s, incinerator technology persisted as aviablealternative.
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Grammatical analysis is thereby shown to be aviablealternativeto techniques such as concept spotting.
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Using forest fallows as a source of shade-tolerant timber species may be aviablealternativeto regenerating these species in mature forests.
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If one face is accidentally marked or damaged, the other side may be aviablealternative.
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These obligations leave member states with virtually noviablealternativeto implementation by a legalistic command and control approach.
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But for applications with a small number of reads and writes this is definitely aviablealternative.
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Salih forces us all to look at ethnicity and ethnic-based politics as aviablealternativeto externally imposed democratisation.
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The use of gliricidia biomass could be aviablealternativeto inorganic fertilizer.
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In an ideology that rejects both transliteration and alphabet-switching, avoidance of foreign elements thus seems to be the onlyviablealternative.
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