complete elimination

collocation in English

meaningsofcompleteandelimination

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complete
adjective
uk
/kəmˈpliːt/us
/kəmˈpliːt/
very great or to the largest ...
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elimination
noun[U]
uk
/iˌlɪm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/iˌlɪm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
the process of ...
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(Definition ofcompleteandeliminationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A curious episode is thecompleteeliminationof one of the north towers as a cost-reducing measure to get construction started.
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However, we attempted to balance the burden on the patient with thecompleteeliminationof the metabolite.
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This led inevitably, after an unprecedented deployment of intelligence, to thecompleteeliminationof the divine from geometry with the goal of profaning all its content.
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I do not anticipate that conditions in the future will be such as to permit thecompleteeliminationof this type of contract.
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That is the only approach that achieves total consistency and thecompleteeliminationof risk.
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Inevitably and inexorably, in the weeks ahead, perhaps in the next four to six weeks, the population facescompleteeliminationof all local food supplies.
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Methods of reducing some of them are known, but very large reductions are technically most difficult and expensive, andcompleteeliminationis impossible.
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Would they dare to advocate thecompleteeliminationof public control?
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Those changes have contributed to the almostcompleteeliminationof the food mountains of the past.
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I hope that we will return to that matter and seek an even larger reduction in the tariff, up to itscompleteelimination.
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Will he also seriously consider thecompleteeliminationof licences for this sort of farming over the next 10 years?
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Completeeliminationof the few remaining right turns on this route cannot be justified, although the arrangements at certain junctions are under review.
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The most spectacular change which has taken place in this country is the almostcompleteeliminationof rickets.
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There was also a certainty that there would be no effective contribution from the mineworkers, unless they secured thecompleteeliminationof private control.
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We must work towards thecompleteeliminationof the market system.
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Their objective is thecompleteeliminationof a whole class of nuclear systems.
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He spoke of it as a historic seaport and described the picturesque clusters of old houses on the water-front and spoke of itscompleteelimination.
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For instance, there was the coming of the weaver bird to the sorghum fields and thecompleteeliminationof the whole crop.
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They would result in thecompleteeliminationof our rented housing stock.
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What we need is not more regulation and manipulation of the quotas but thecompleteeliminationof milk quotas.
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