economic difficulty

collocation in English

meaningsofeconomicanddifficulty

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economic
adjective
uk
/ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪk/us
/ˌiː.kəˈnɑː.mɪk/
relating to trade, industry, ...
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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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(Definition ofeconomicanddifficultyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Unmarried or widowed women also enjoy much greater freedom; however, unless they have some independent source of income, they face constanteconomicdifficulty.
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Moreover, the crisis years 1315-22 began an era ofeconomicdifficultyin which past endowments proved inadequate.
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Not surprisingly perhaps, the likelihood that older people would sell their own home at a time ofeconomicdifficultywas slight.
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To make matters worse, in this time ofeconomicdifficulty, those in commerce who benefited from the disruptions in the market became targets for popular dissatisfaction.
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These psychological difficulties need to be set against a background of severeeconomicdifficultyand of heavy rationing of food and clothing after the war that continued into the fifties.
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Since social security is more important for worse-off people it can be assumed that opinion differences between the well-off and worse-off grew during a period ofeconomicdifficulty.
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This trend is particularly dangerous because it is happening against a background of graveeconomicdifficulty.
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Making homes more energy efficient puts money in people's pockets to spend in the local economy at this time of financial andeconomicdifficulty.
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It is a truism to say these days that we live in times of graveeconomicdifficulty.
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It is certainly true that we are going through a period of intenseeconomicdifficulty.
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That sort ofeconomicdifficultycan be measured year by year.
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His region has been one of the more robust during this period ofeconomicdifficulty.
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The order must be seen against the backcloth that this country and our people face a period of acuteeconomicdifficulty.
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We have to be careful that we do not deter people from using the care facilities in times ofeconomicdifficulty.
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We are passing through a period of seriouseconomicdifficulty.
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I claim that the arts have done extraordinarily well at a time ofeconomicdifficulty.
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That importance is further illustrated by the level of financial provision made available for the arts at a time ofeconomicdifficulty.
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And even in this time ofeconomicdifficultymany new businesses are starting.
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Those are no mean achievements at a time of greateconomicdifficulty.
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In times ofeconomicdifficultywe are having to ask our people to contribute significantly more to defence.
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