well-educated people
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwell educatedandpeople
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well-educated
adjective
uk/ˌwel ˈed.jʊ.keɪ.tɪd/us/ˌwel ˈed.jʊ.keɪ.t̬ɪd/
having had a ...
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people
noun[plural]
uk/ˈpiː.pəl/us/ˈpiː.pəl/
men, women, ...
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(Definition ofwell-educatedandpeoplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The composition of the group had a strong bias towards office holders and relativelywell-educatedpeople.
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Well-educatedpeoplein developed countries will realize that such steps are in their own immediate self-interest.
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We are losing some of the most intelligent andwell-educatedpeople—the people whose inventions and discoveries form the basis of so much manufacturing prosperity.
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That makes absolute nonsense in a situation where one of the things we want is an increasing number of well-trained andwell-educatedpeople.
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I wish that the teachers, who are responsible andwell-educatedpeople, would bring this point home to the leaders of their union.
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However, governments and businesses must ensure that far more is invested in our most important resource, namelywell-educatedpeoplewho are highly skilled, motivated and adaptable.
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As soon as cities go downhill,well-educatedpeopleon high incomes can move away from the area, but labourers and immigrants have no choice but to stay.
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The first is our skill inherited from our forefathers, the second our, relatively speaking, well-educatedpeople, and the third the great asset of coal in the bowels of the earth.
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They are all practical, hard-working, industrious andwell-educatedpeoplewith a great stake in the interests of their country, which, after all, even in these days, is something.
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Churchmen, beingwell-educatedpeople, were engaged in the administration of the kingdom.
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It tends to be used in serious discussions bywell-educatedpeople, but is generally not used in writing.
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One can be seized with holy rage when one hears how frivolously evenwell-educatedpeopletalk of reconstruction after the war.
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However, along with most novels at the time, they were looked down upon bywell-educatedpeopleas sensationalist entertainment.
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Manywell-educatedpeople-social scientists, humanities scholars, writers and other professionals-have given voice to and even become articulators for rising nationalistic discourse in the 1990s.
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