alternative employment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofalternativeandemployment
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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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employment
noun[U]
uk/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/us/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
the fact of someone being paid to work for a company ...
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(Definition ofalternativeandemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofalternative employment
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Collecting and investing this rental income, besides freeing excess inputs, could generatealternativeemploymentalongside a profitable fishing industry.
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The displaced fishing communities may not findalternativeemploymenteasily.
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The project represented a source ofalternativeemploymentto the nearby fishermen, at least until the labor strife in the early months of 1852.
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The local mill, railway and roads providedalternativeemployment.
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Alternativeemploymentopportunities will raise the opportunity cost of time for everyone in the particular location, such that they require higher returns to fishing.
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To study the importance of this assumption, we contrast it to the other extreme where there is noalternativeemployment.
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In particular, it emphasises the importance ofalternativeemployment.
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Such circumstances prompted the interviewees to look foralternativeemployment, which had two distinctive outcomes.
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This version of the model presumes that at current wages there isalternativeemploymentfor the current agricultural labour force.
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The value of such services (or goods) in theiralternativeemploymentis their opportunity or economic cost.
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Conceivably, the incipient private sector might providealternativeemploymentopportunities, but the government has been unremittingly hostile to its growth.
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Furthermore, the subsistence approach focuses on the effect of population growth, whereas the market approach highlights the role ofalternativeemployment, as expressed through the wage rate.
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The costs of labour for landowners are now driven closer to the social costs of labour, which in the absence ofalternativeemploymentopportunities remain close to zero.
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While these young women certainly did not represent the majority, their testimonies reflect a keen awareness ofalternativeemploymentpossibilities as well as a determination to pursue them.
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Due to limited availability ofalternativeemploymentopportunities, access to land and functioning of the land market is becoming an increasingly critical policy issue.
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At present there are 13 members of staff in a surplus position who might be made redundant if suitablealternativeemploymentcannot be found.
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We wish to encourage the development ofalternativeemploymentopportunities for rural communities.
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An urgent examination is being made of possible methods of providingalternativeemploymentfor aircraft workers in the factories where they are now employed.
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