age category

collocation in English

meaningsofageandcategory

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age
noun
uk
/eɪdʒ/
us
/eɪdʒ/
the period of time someone has been alive or something ...
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category
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkæt.ə.ɡri/
us
/ˈkæt̬.ə.ɡri/
(in a system for dividing things according to appearance, quality, etc.) a type, or a group of things having some features that are ...
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(Definition ofageandcategoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofage category

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There were no statistically significant interactions between study group andagecategoryor rank.
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Almost all outright owners are in thatagecategory.
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Within eachagecategoryelder members should make plans and younger members carry them out.
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Left: plots labelled according to forestagecategory.
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With the benefit of these refinements, single females in the youngeragecategoryemerge as more likely selecting lower risk investment choices in this study.
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This category is less likely to choose the lower risk option compared with married males in the olderagecategory.
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Mature forests were treated as a fifthagecategory.
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It was necessary to determine the infection rates in eachagecategory, rather than notification rates.
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Efficiency for eachagecategorycould then be estimated.
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Numbers caught in eachagecategorywere estimated for the baited trap experiments from the above percentages.
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The diaphragm is used only by women in this particularagecategory; the use of the oral contraceptive is low and male methods predominate.
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The second isolate was matched foragecategory, date of specimen collection, and capsular serotype (control group 2).
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This likelihood is greater when this category is compared with married and single males in the olderagecategorywho did not consider themselves informed.
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The probability of an individual being ill in a representative household can be calculated for eachagecategory.
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In the youngestagecategorythere is a significant difference.
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Less well-paid proto-industrial employments, namely, wool- and cottonspinning, substituted for silk-gauze-weaving, cotton-spinning employing exactly half of all women in theagecategory40 and above.
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In tsetse control operations where the numbers of females in eachagecategoryneeds to be determined accurately, such an error could be highly misleading.
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This allowed the emergence of a second new type - theagecategoryof adolescence.
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We present the percentage of patients whose parameters showed deviations from the reference values for a particularagecategory.
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