whole process

collocation in English

meaningsofwholeandprocess

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whole
adjective
uk
/həʊl/
us
/hoʊl/
complete or ...
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process
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprəʊ.ses/
us
/ˈprɑː.ses/
a series of actions that you take in order to achieve ...
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(Definition ofwholeandprocessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwhole process

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The eminent or great individual was seen to provide leadership - national leadership, or leadership for thewholeprocessof human evolution.
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Thewholeprocesswas accomplished with less than ten telephone calls.
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Ultimately, thewholeprocessof reform - the ideas, the people, the agencies, the institutions, the structures - reached the level of the parish.
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Thewholeprocessmay take a few days or a few weeks to resolve.
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Thewholeprocesswas repeated a few times before beginning to rock to and fro in this position.
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Thewholeprocessis accomplished in a series of steps as described below.
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Thewholeprocessis supervised by the ontologist.
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During thewholeprocess, the patient data are taken into account in order to adapt the report to his/her specific characteristics.
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The others need the interaction with the user during thewholeprocess.
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Thewholeprocesscan be accomplished easily and is usually finished in less than an hour.
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The report of these researches suggests that thewholeprocesscould then be a more controlled one with the readings taken being more precise.
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He has lost confidence, he tells us, in thewholeprocess.
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The surface of the sand remains loose throughout thewholeprocess.
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Thewholeprocessthen moves on from iteration to iteration.
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Replicates were obtained by repeating thewholeprocessmany times.
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More text would then be gathered to reflect the modified design, and thewholeprocesscould be repeated indefinitely in a cyclical pattern.
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Note that after a renaming of the constitutive elements, the inclusion of the recombination step makes thewholeprocessa canonical example of meiosis.
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The marriage ceremony itself was perfunctory and, in this instance, thewholeprocessof juba'ing seems to have proceeded smoothly.
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This competitive, or 'soft', market results in less stringent underwriting and pricing, insurers start to lose money and thewholeprocessstarts again.
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