alternative channel
collocation in Englishmeaningsofalternativeandchannel
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alternative
adjective
uk/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/us/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
An alternative plan or method is one that you can use if you do not want to use ...
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channel
noun[C]
uk/ˈtʃæn.əl/us/ˈtʃæn.əl/
a television or radio station (= an organization that broadcasts television or ...
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(Definition ofalternativeandchannelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is also a small but growing stock market that provides analternativechannelfor private savings.
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While such analternativechannelmay help to further the environmental cause, one can hardly expect it to solve all environmental problems.
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Such a deficiency is partly compensated by the availability of public interest litigation such that ordinary citizens have analternativechannelfor redressing their environmental grievances.
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A more positive solution would be to allow would-be adopters to use analternativechannel.
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The introduction of telecommunication satellites in 1965 offered analternativechannelof power.
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They could develop into a usefulalternativechannelof information which would work in all situations.
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In foreign relations you always have analternativechannelof communication.
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It acts as thealternativechannelfor democratic participation.
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After all, the elected council is the most effective counterweight to central government, which acts as thealternativechannelfor democratic participation.
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It is clearly right, in my opinion, that our country should offer thisalternativechannelfor entry into the profession.
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I expect that the council will become directly involved in individual complaints only where existing channels for complaints are inadequate or where no adequatealternativechannelexists.
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This opening, in conjunction with the attached stoma appliance, provides analternativechannelfor feces to leave the body.
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Secondly, having multiple channels would stabilize the relationship, and would secure alternative channels to recover the relationship in case problematic issues arise.
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Indeed, they can continue to thrive in subordinate or less visible political arenas, affording them time to regroup and fashion alternative channels of power.
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If inflation imposes substantially higher welfare costs on the economy, it is likely to be through one of these alternative channels.
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The corporate governance channel has not been filtered from alternative channels through which pension funds could develop stock markets.
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Yes, but the whole of broadcasting is, in fact, changing because of the speed of new technology and, of course, because of the alternative channels.
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There is nothing more effective than free and alternative channels of information for combating censorship, which is the preserve of all oppressive regimes.
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Paragraph 2.24 recognises that assistance will be provided through a number of alternative channels and will be tightly focused on the victims of neglect and oppression.
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It applies to time, place, and manner restrictions on speech, for example, with the additional requirement of adequate alternative channels of communication.
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