comprehensive measure

collocation in English

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comprehensive
adjective
uk
/ˌkɒm.prɪˈhen.sɪv/us
/ˌkɑːm.prəˈhen.sɪv/
complete and including everything that ...
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measure
noun
uk
/ˈmeʒ.ər/us
/ˈmeʒ.ɚ/
a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with ...
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(Definition ofcomprehensiveandmeasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcomprehensive measure

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Acomprehensivemeasureof proximity to singular configurations also needs to consider inverse kinematic singularities.
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The cost-effectiveness analysis used the psychiatrist's assessment of global outcome as the measure of effectiveness since it represents the mostcomprehensivemeasure.
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To get a morecomprehensivemeasureof the readers' word recognition ability, both forms were used, and a combined raw score was calculated.
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Consequently, it was decided to develop inductively a morecomprehensivemeasureof motivations in older person care, for use with all carers of older people.
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This is the mostcomprehensivemeasureof the scale of the aggregate pension promise.
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Nonvictimization adversity, another possible influence on child mental health, was assessed by acomprehensivemeasurethat included 15 nonviolent traumatic events and chronic stressors.
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Income is not acomprehensivemeasureof an individual's well-being.
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The third and mostcomprehensivemeasureis to give priority to advance payments of 50% of the area premiums in the current budgetary year.
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I submit that it is not it; that it is not acomprehensivemeasure.
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I would say that it is rather difficult to bring in a large andcomprehensivemeasure.
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I believe that it is now a fullycomprehensivemeasure, designed to stamp out the menace of the armed criminal and armed hooligan.
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But, if it is introduced as acomprehensivemeasure, there will be no need whatever to debate the appropriate transition.
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The mostcomprehensivemeasureof income is gross domestic product.
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We should take steps—this would be acomprehensivemeasure—to encourage such gradual retirement.
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That is a large,comprehensivemeasure, and it is important that we get it right.
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As such it is not the most useful orcomprehensivemeasureof the total state of public sector indebtedness.
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There was much eager anticipation that there would be acomprehensivemeasurefor the protection of privacy.
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I do not believe it would be possible to carry acomprehensivemeasureof reform without that.
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That was the answer—that there must be a singlecomprehensivemeasure, and until that, justice could not be done.
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Many valuable measures can be lost if they are embedded in a major,comprehensivemeasure.
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