rapid spread

collocation in English

meaningsofrapidandspread

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rapid
adjective
uk
/ˈræp.ɪd/us
/ˈræp.ɪd/
fast ...
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spread
noun
uk
/spred/us
/spred/
the development or growth of something so that it covers a larger area or affects a larger number ...
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(Definition ofrapidandspreadfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Reactivation in both tissue culture and explant systems leads to therapidspreadof viral infection throughout the culture or explanted ganglion.
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In spite of therapidspreadof agent technology, there is, as yet, little evidence of an engineering approach to the development of agent-based systems.
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It has been assumed that therapidspreadof fusarium wilt in the 1950s and 1960s occurred through the distribution of infected planting seed.
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With therapidspreadof cocoa cultivation in the early twentieth century, production for the market centred on conjugal labour.
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This was increasing in popularity with therapidspreadof irrigation water availability from shallow tube wells sunk mainly in the past decade.
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Therapidspreadof penicillin-resistant pneumococci is a major health concern in the industrialized and developing world.
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Optimistic assumptions about arapidspreadof liberal democracy were shattered by the outbreak of ethnic conflicts, many of them along linguistic lines.
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However, the enormous growth of the personal computer market in the 1980s has lead to therapidspread of computing of various sorts throughout many companies.
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This vulnerability has facilitated therapidspreadof disease and the death of more than 1 200 people.
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Therapidspreadof sponsorship, for example, in schools, is a good example of this.
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Nor was therapidspreadin the least appreciated.
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It implies therapidspreadof ideas, benefits and information, and an equallyrapidspreadof problems and difficulties.
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All that needs to be done quickly if therapidspreadof infection is to be avoided.
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There is still much that we do not understand about therapidspreadof the disease on this occasion.
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However, therapidspreadof flames created a situation which could only be controlled with great difficulty.
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In 2001, an unprecedented 2000 animal transportation movements, involving 1.3 million sheep, led to arapidspreadof the disease.
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They are provided through therapidspreadof securitisation; that is, the substitution of marketable instruments for bank-funded debt.
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The demand for raw materials will be boosted by the growth of the emerging economies and by therapidspreadof new technologies.
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