modest standard
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodestandstandard
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modest
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ɪst/us/ˈmɑː.dɪst/
not large in size or amount, or ...
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standard
noun
uk/ˈstæn.dəd/us/ˈstæn.dɚd/
a level ...
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(Definition ofmodestandstandardfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As teachers and nurses, the spouses continued to earn low salaries, far below amodeststandard.
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The result of this comparison was that no algorithm produced significantly superior results, with all algorithms reaching amodeststandard.
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Income support is not generous; it simply provides what is necessary for a verymodeststandardof living.
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These are minimum standards, and judged to be the economic level of insulation when a house is heated only to amodeststandard.
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We have fallen consistently well below even thatmodeststandard.
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I think that there is a case for having amodeststandardrepair grant which would be available to everyone.
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This would not matter if we had a purely agrarian economy, and if we were content with a humble ormodeststandardof living.
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They have budgeted for amodeststandardof living.
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He is incapable of paying that sum without considerably reducing what is already a verymodeststandardof living.
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These are maximum prices and the state of the market is such as to impose lower prices for articles of a moremodeststandardof construction and design.
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The language also has amodeststandardlibrary of built-in functions.
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A dissenting view is that poverty did not affect employed individuals and their families, as full employment guaranteed subsistence, if at amodeststandard.
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They have to maintain very modest standards, and their little investments are on so small a scale that consideration should be given to their circumstances.
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Even given the modest standards by which the book was published, it was something of a failure.
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