economic base
collocation in Englishmeaningsofeconomicandbase
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economic
adjective
uk/ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪk/us/ˌiː.kəˈnɑː.mɪk/
relating to trade, industry, ...
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base
noun
uk/beɪs/us/beɪs/
the bottom part of an object, on which it rests, or the lowest part ...
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(Definition ofeconomicandbasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Normally theeconomicbasedetermines the superstructure.
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What about theeconomicbasefor choosing support from wider family?
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This is particularly so in territories that had a loweconomicbaseto begin with.
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Theeconomicbaseof the interior was, therefore, almost entirely agricultural.
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Governments whoseeconomicbaseis immobile are more likely to engage in predation.
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The predominance of extractive and service sectors reflects theeconomicbaseof the area.
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Marketing provided women with aneconomicbasefor accumulating wealth for conversion into prestigious titles and political power.
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This rather weakeconomicbaseis reflected in the low median household income, which stood at $21,406 in 1989.
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The north-west had its owneconomicbaseas well as social and political traditions and structures.
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The strengths of these neighborhoods can be an important asset in efforts to rebuild theeconomicbase.
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It destroys the sense of community and theeconomicbaseof the area, and encourages more out-migration.
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First, oureconomicbaseis now sound.
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But itseconomicbaseis fairly fragile.
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No soundeconomicbasehas been created.
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With a limitedeconomicbase, nonetheless, the investment in creating a cosmology within the monastery in the early 9th century is truly extraordinary.
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With a widereconomicbase, consisting of farming and milk-production, the family economy could survive regardless of difficulties within the fishing-sector.
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Only when market forces are in place will the bene ts of a soundeconomicbase'trickle down' to the masses.
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Nevertheless, the effects on employment were slight, theeconomicbasewas not substantially altered and continued to depend on the tertiary sector.
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With only one or two exceptions, urban areas had a commercial or administrativeeconomicbase, but had little if any manufacturing.
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The nearly universal collapse of theeconomicbaseof masculine identity produced a patriarchal reassertion that suffused all discourse in the 1930s.
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Extraction and distribution of petrodollars have given regimes regulative leverage resulting from the acquisition of a "wideeconomicbase" through all-encompassing patronage.
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