difficulty communicating

collocation in English

meaningsofdifficultyandcommunicate

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difficulty
noun
uk
/ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəl.ti/us
/ˈdɪf.ə.kəl.t̬i/
the fact of not being easy to do ...
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communicate
verb
uk
/kəˈmjuː.nɪ.keɪt/us
/kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪt/
to share information with others by speaking, writing, moving your body, or using ...
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(Definition ofdifficultyandcommunicatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Even within political science the sub-specialisms often now havedifficultycommunicatingwith each other.
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However, they havedifficultycommunicatingwith their membership.
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He is having greatdifficultycommunicatingwith them and it is unsafe for him even to write to them because of the retribution that might be meted out.
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A northeastern-dialect speaker and a southwestern-dialect speaker may havedifficultycommunicatingexcept through the standard language.
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Children with autism tend to havedifficultycommunicatingand expressing their emotions or desires.
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This can pose to be especially true in those who havedifficultycommunicatingor interacting with others.
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This concept is important to marketeers because consumer confusion may result in reduced sales, reduced satisfaction with products anddifficultycommunicatingeffectively with the consumer.
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Aircrews haddifficultycommunicatingwith the ground troops; they would drop messages or use messenger pigeons.
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Because of her backward memory, the others havedifficultycommunicatingwith her to any great extent.
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Social constructivists argue each speciality forms its own epistemic community and often has greatdifficultycommunicating, or motivating the investigation of unifying conjectures that might relate different areas of mathematics.
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Those who are blind, hearing impaired, etc. may havedifficultycommunicatingduring the emergency.
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He was described as gentle but haddifficultycommunicatingwith other people.
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The theme of isolation appears to result from the characters' inability to communicate with one another, and the characters' own insularity seems to exacerbate theirdifficultycommunicatingwith others.
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She hasdifficultycommunicatingwith him at first; the only word that she is able to say being chi, but slowly she learns how to speak.
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