complete cessation

collocation in English

meaningsofcompleteandcessation

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complete
adjective
uk
/kəmˈpliːt/us
/kəmˈpliːt/
very great or to the largest ...
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cessation
noun[C or U]
uk
/sesˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/sesˈeɪ.ʃən/
ending ...
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(Definition ofcompleteandcessationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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With an almostcompletecessationof hunting, game populations rapidly increased in destructiveness.
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Castration involves a reduction orcompletecessationin the production of host offspring coincident with the development and maturation of parasites.
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Emodepside caused a transient increase in the frequency of the rhythmic activity, followed by acompletecessationof activity.
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That must inevitably mean, if long continued, thecompletecessationof building in the city and the breakdown of the building industry.
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The misunderstanding that could follow acompletecessationof these services is quite frightening to contemplate.
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There has been an almostcompletecessationof house building in the last five or six years.
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Those procedures will apply, as at present, to thecompletecessationof passenger services to a station or on a line.
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Only thecompletecessationof arable farming, of whichever sort, would prevent that happening.
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Thecompletecessationof flaring would mean virtually the cessation of oil production.
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Will it involve acompletecessationof school building, no more hospital building, no more hostels for workers, no more clinics?
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There is not acompletecessationof violence.
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The ultimate objective is thecompletecessationof nuclear testing as part of an effective disarmament process.
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A weekend intervened, and, of course, there was acompletecessationof political labour.
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Obviously, such a position cannot continue for long without inevitable bankruptcy and an almostcompletecessationof international trade among the countries concerned.
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There must be acompletecessationof attacks upon the institutions of other countries.
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With thecompletecessationof discretionary grants, the lottery money, like the grants themselves, has gone.
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What we want is reasonable, practical notice of any substantial diminution or ofcompletecessation.
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Thecompletecessationof the activities of which we have reason to complain.
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One cannot, therefore, imagine acompletecessationof existing occupational schemes.
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