adequate food
collocation in Englishmeaningsofadequateandfood
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adequate
adjective
uk/ˈæd.ə.kwət/us/ˈæd.ə.kwət/
enough or satisfactory for a ...
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food
noun[C or U]
uk/fuːd/us/fuːd/
something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep ...
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(Definition ofadequateandfoodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This situation is more directly analogous to the captive monkeys in zoos, provided withadequatefoodbut kept under serious crowding.
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The wide variation means that interprovince grain movements are necessary to ensure people all over the country have anadequatefoodsupply.
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But beyond the point ofadequatefood, shelter, clothing, medical attention, and so forth, things become more problematic.
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It was successful, in part, becauseadequatefoodsamples were available for microbiological testing.
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People living in these urban areas may, in general, haveadequatefood.
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This seems reasonable because larger groups have more mouths to feed, necessitating more travel to findadequatefoodsupplies.
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These cases represented extreme failure to provideadequatefood, clothing, shelter, and medical attention to children.
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Offspring provided with anadequatefoodsupply exhibited higher variance in nine cases, and the opposite was true for the remaining seven cases.
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If anything, the problem of providingadequatefoodfor harvest camp volunteers intensified in the post-war food crisis.
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In terms of the subtypes of maltreatment, neglect involves failure to provide for the child's basic physical needs foradequatefood, clothing, shelter, and medical treatment.
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Neglect is operationalized as failure to provide for the child's basic physical needs foradequatefood, shelter, and medical treatment, as well as lack of supervision and moral-legal neglect.
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They have duties to see that the child is provided withadequatefood, warmth, shelter, comfort and affection, a decent education, good medical care, and so on.
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Franklin was intent on carrying out his orders, even though they had been based on the false assumption that he would haveadequatefoodsupplies.
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Adequatefoodis a human right and hunger is a crime against humanity.
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I submit that they can go a long way towards enabling us to getadequatefoodsupplies at competitive prices.
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We know that it is quite impossible to get evenadequatefoodand housing for that sum, apart altogether from nursing.
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People who are sick and hungry cannot work to produceadequatefoodor earn the money to buy it.
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The first quote is: "few governments realise that policies intended to guarantee anadequatefoodsupply have introduced major threats to health".
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That would include the facilities available for care; the ability to provideadequatefood, water and veterinary treatment.
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