developed nation

collocation in English

meaningsofdevelopedandnation

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developed
adjective
uk
/dɪˈvel.əpt/us
/dɪˈvel.əpt/
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nation
noun
uk
/ˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˈneɪ.ʃən/
a country, especially when thought of as a large group of people living in one area with their own government, language, ...
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(Definition ofdevelopedandnationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdeveloped nation

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Systems of redistribution are characteristic of federal or unitary states rather than of associations ofdevelopednationstates.
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For it is that alone in the long term will allow us to achieve the standard of living of adevelopednation.
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As a sophisticated anddevelopednation, we must help the underdeveloped parts of the world to expand their trade and increase their prosperity.
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In adevelopednationsuch as our own, the infrastructure for all basic services has been built up during the past 150 years.
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This cannot be the way to run a country or to ensure that we become adevelopednationagain.
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Yet perhaps we, of all nations, should recognise that we are more dependent upon international trade than any otherdevelopednationin the world.
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They told each and everydevelopednationof the northern hemisphere that if the taxpayers did not fork out, they, the taxpayers would suffer.
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They must be made the privileged darlings of this nation if our country is to retain the privilege of remaining adevelopednation.
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That is fatal when our only chance of remaining adevelopednationis to embrace technology and to take on the technological revolution.
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Every tonne of carbon supposedly retained in such a project is one more tonne that thedevelopednationcan pump into the atmosphere.
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In these circumstances, is it not our duty as a richdevelopednationto do far more in providing development aid?
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I believe that this country has some of the most attractive investment allowances of anydevelopednationin the world.
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That would even be a challenge to adevelopednation, let alone one in the undeveloped world.
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Practically everydevelopednationin the world subsidises industries.
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And it is the small and new businesses which are the key to our survival as adevelopednation.
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The good health of the nation is absolutely essential to our survival as adevelopednation.
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It is part of our responsibility as adevelopednationto help raise the standards of others to a level that we find acceptable.
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Every otherdevelopednationhas some form of national minimum wage or statutory wage protection.
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Imposing westerndevelopednationstandards on intermediate, dirty, industrialised third-world countries has inherent dangers, particularly when there are many problems that we have not tackled.
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