crude measure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcrudeandmeasure
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crude
adjective
uk/kruːd/us/kruːd/
simple and not skilfully done ...
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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 ofcrudeandmeasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, the size of the government's agenda, at least by ourcrudemeasure, is unaffected by changes in these two institutional features.
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In part, this could be due to the fact that we have a rathercrudemeasureof water quality in our data set.
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A post hoc analysis of the present data using the relativelycrudemeasureavailable will be reported along with that analysis.
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Though this is clearly acrudemeasure, it nonetheless gives a rough idea of the magnitude of publishing activity in the last dynasty.
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Thiscrudemeasureof grief is subject to social desirability bias.
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Although presence/absence is rather acrudemeasure, more precise measurements proved unfeasible because of time and logistic constraints.
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The standard deviation across the eight estimates gives acrudemeasureof the cross-model stability and hence of the multicollinearity.
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Obviously, these descriptions of poverty and wealth are relative to this sample of wills, and for many reasons this is an extremelycrudemeasure, and should be treated warily.
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To remove the effect of severity of symptoms, we standardized the ten symptom group scores by acrudemeasureof severity and then repeated the cluster analysis.
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This is acrudemeasure.
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Moreover, some two-thirds of the total of sixty-nine coalition governments in her original sample are seen to be 'ideologically compatible' - by this admittedly rathercrudemeasure.
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Acrudemeasureof the depth to which convection can penetrate was found from horizontal temperature scans, such as figure 12, and was checked by side view shadowgraphs.
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His method, however, is somewhat arbitrary in deciding the exact age at which the female should attain full biological maturity and hence gives only acrudemeasureof adolescent sterility.
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We should approach the issue with selective methods of conservation like that, not with this kind of blanket,crudemeasurewhich will damage the industry.
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But subsequent conviction rates—admittedly, a rathercrudemeasureof effectiveness —are encouraging.
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It is a prettycrudemeasureto take stock off the market.
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We have made it clear that star ratings should go because they are acrudemeasurethat provides a partial reflection of the situation.
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The squeeze on companies is acrudemeasureto frighten them into low wage settlements, and it is doomed to failure.
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Adopting the exempt groups as a gauge of severity of incapacity would be a verycrudemeasure.
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