radical transformation

collocation in English

meaningsofradicalandtransformation

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radical
adjective
uk
/ˈræd.ɪ.kəl/
us
/ˈræd.ɪ.kəl/
believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social or ...
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transformation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌtræns.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌtræns.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
a complete change in the appearance or character of something or someone, especially so that that thing or person ...
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(Definition ofradicalandtransformationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofradical transformation

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Aradicaltransformationof existing farming systems, the argument goes, is therefore required.
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This, in turn, questions the usefulness of 'radicaltransformation' and ' preexisting conditions ' arguments.
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As long as military technology did not undergo any furtherradicaltransformation, the impetus for further changes in the system was not compelling.
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In each case, the transformation of an economic system was accompanied by a similarlyradicaltransformationof the institutions and cultures of work.
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Thisradicaltransformationrenders it difficult to conceive of the development of a discipline any longer as the cumulation of knowledge about its subject area.
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In the 19th century, there was anotherradicaltransformationof the landscape with the wholesale reclamation of the heathlands.
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But, from inside households, there begins to emerge evidence for a more equal distribution of care work, inradicaltransformationfrom the strongly gender stereotypical roles of the communist era.
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Radicaltransformationof the state or of other agents may open the possibility that other agents would justly inflict criminal sanctions.
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The latter provide critical input to renewal andradicaltransformation, when they are linked via embedded ties, which support rich information exchange of differentiated knowledge.
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A moreradicaltransformationof district architecture is called for, and this contribution hypothesizes that the multi-embedded global network of local systems might be an answer.
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Although they differed widely in their motivation, these interventions shared the common desire to effect aradicaltransformationof rural economic and social reality.
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However, design disputes, political rivalries and the tenacious resistance of local elites undermined theradicaltransformationproposed.
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The moreradicaltransformationmight entail experimental novel combinations, in the form of hybrids, in 'reciprocation', according to the cycle of discovery frame.
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Thisradicaltransformationgives rise to the metabolism of the initial biological organism and transition of chemical reactions from in vitro into in vivo.
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Whilst these new acquisitions do not suggest aradicaltransformationin the town's urban economy, they point to its evolution within the broad occupational classes.
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The meaning of "modify" is to make partial changes in something: to alter withoutradicaltransformation.
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It continues theradicaltransformationof early education and child care.
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What we need is aradicaltransformationof the apprenticeship system.
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There cannot be any moreradicaltransformationthan to eliminate them altogether.
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