detrimental impact

collocation in English

meaningsofdetrimentalandimpact

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detrimental
adjective
uk
/ˌdet.rɪˈmen.təl/
us
/ˌdet.rəˈmen.t̬əl/
causing harm ...
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impact
noun[C usually singular, U]
uk
/ˈɪm.pækt/
us
/ˈɪm.pækt/
the force or action of one object ...
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Thedetrimentalimpactof this type of agriculture is discussed in social, economic and environmental terms.
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At the same time, direct democracy did not have the hypothesizeddetrimentalimpacton racial and ethnic group attitudes towards government in general.
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The evidence also suggests direct democracy did not have the hypothesizeddetrimentalimpacton racial and ethnic group attitudes towards government in general.
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Many recent critics have decried thedetrimentalimpactof technology on music and the body.
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The extent of thedetrimentalimpactthat working long hours combined with living alone may have on psychological distress is still to be determined.
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In the end, such nonrational and unconscious issues may have moredetrimentalimpactthan has previously been acknowledged.
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Thedetrimentalimpactof object relations disturbances on adaptation should be especially evident following the loss of a spouse.
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Given thedetrimentalimpactof falls and fear-of-falling on older people, both should be important targets for intervention.
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As water trade, or increased water prices, encourage upstream users to introduce more efficient irrigation or conveyance methods, return flows are reduced withdetrimentalimpacton downstream users.
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Maltreatment represents an extreme deviation from a normative environmental context and is therefore likely to exert adetrimentalimpacton children's capacities to negotiate developmental tasks adaptively.
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External, noncontact task-space sensors have been frequently proposed for vehicle guidance in order to reduce thedetrimentalimpactof systematic motion errors and achieve high accuracies via closed-loop control.
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Travelling very long distances every day can have adetrimentalimpacton a child's standard of work.
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He cited thedetrimentalimpactthat the proposals would have on the infirm, vulnerable and less well off.
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However, if consumer protection is allowed to run not, it could have adetrimentalimpacton small businesses.
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Secondly, estimates of the cost suggest that it should not have adetrimentalimpacton labour providers.
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Workplaces were managed in a way that had adetrimentalimpacton the economy and was unhelpful to the people on the shop floor.
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The new employers' statutory sick pay responsibilities are having a serious anddetrimentalimpacton the health and safety scene.
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The danger of removing ballots from the branch was that it would have adetrimentalimpacton the life of the branch.
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Fourthly, they must be able to ensure that there will be nodetrimentalimpacton other services, or service providers, within the health system involved.
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