continual improvement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontinualandimprovement
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continual
adjective
uk/kənˈtɪn.ju.əl/us/kənˈtɪn.ju.əl/
happening repeatedly, usually in an annoying or not ...
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improvement
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/us/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/
an occasion when something gets better or when you make ...
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(Definition ofcontinualandimprovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Good critiques are essential to thecontinualimprovementof everything humans do.
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Making is thecontinualimprovementof a theoretical position.
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We must face this problem because "innovation andcontinualimprovement" is the name of the game in science, industry, and other competitive areas of life.
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Communication, energy, medicine and study are based on that: thecontinualimprovementof all our resources.
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That approach is at the heart of thecontinualimprovementstrategy for the new deal.
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That must be continued, and in matters of technical efficiency there must of course becontinualimprovement.
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There has been acontinualimprovement.
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However, the industry strongly believes in eco-management systems and theircontinualimprovementthrough annual targets.
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The agency is committed to a programme ofcontinualimprovementin every aspect of its work.
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We want a culture ofcontinualimprovement.
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The arrangements are revised and tested through exercises to encouragecontinualimprovementof our response arrangements.
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Is it not a matter of patriotism that we should be giving support to our own airline and seeking constructively to bring aboutcontinualimprovement?
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That can be done only by acontinualimprovementin industry, with better and better machines.
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Between then and 1979, there wascontinualimprovementin regulation of the mining industry.
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Changes in personnel are caused from time to time by the march of events and by the duty ofcontinualimprovement.
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It prevents thecontinualimprovementof management and supervisory methods by men with careers and an interest in making it a worthwhile service.
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I should like to hear whether there has been acontinualimprovementin that connection.
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I hope, however, that the importance of thecontinualimprovementand the bringing up to date of rural roads will not be forgotten.
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I hope that this is the first part of acontinualimprovementof the conditions of students.
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I should like to believe that we shall see acontinualimprovementin the service and value for money that the agency process can achieve.
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