basic good
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basic
adjective
uk/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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As abasicgood, household energy is very important to the poor: the urban poor, in particular, are vulnerable when energy prices increase.
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As abasicgood, many poorer households tend to spend a disproportionate large share of their budget on energy.
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It was notable that the cane growers who achieved substantially above-average yields even during the most critical years of the 1990s typically observed thebasicgoodtillage practices described above.
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But one has no choice whether harmony among persons, or friendship, is abasicgood, intrinsic to human flourishing; nor about whether harmony is blocked, and friendship negated, by egoism.
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It is basic, scrupulous attention to hygiene and cleanliness—basicgoodpractice.
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It isbasicgoodsense that an absent parent should maintain his or her children, provided that he or she can afford to do so.
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To ban it will threatenbasicgoodemployment practice in the country.
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Many of us consider thatbasicgoodlocal government is the fundamental heart of democracy.
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We have also made related regulations requiringbasicgoodtrading practice in the running of trading schemes.
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We owe much to thebasicgoodsense and decency of the people of this country.
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There is no justification in terms of economics or ofbasicgoodor evil.
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Government guidance has been sensible and in line with what people would regard asbasicgoodpractice.
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We now have systemic insecticides, they are easy to apply, they are relatively inexpensive to apply and it is a matter of pure,basicgoodhusbandry.
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Basicgoodmanagement is an essential element in housing: collecting the rents; when tenants leave, getting new tenants in rapidly; and ensuring that repairs are carried out on time.
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Ten commandments are directed towards personal hygiene and maintainingbasicgoodhealth.
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It focuses on three adolescent girls, two of whom combinebasicgoodcharacter with ugly traits not usually found in fiction for young girls.
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However, most religious systems acknowledge an afterlife and improving this is seen as an even morebasicgood.
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You have deprived them of thebasicgoodof life.
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Practical questions, one might plausibly suppose, ultimately have to be answered by appeal to the basic goods.
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A relative decrease in expenditures on nondurables reflects the lesser importance of basic goods.
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