economic instability

collocation in English

meaningsofeconomicandinstability

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economic
adjective
uk
/ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪk/
us
/ˌiː.kəˈnɑː.mɪk/
relating to trade, industry, ...
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instability
noun[U]
uk
/ˌɪn.stəˈbɪl.ə.ti/
us
/ˌɪn.stəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
uncertainty caused by the possibility of a sudden change in the ...
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(Definition ofeconomicandinstabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The children of the daughters grew up in an era of increased western influence and consumerism but alsoeconomicinstability.
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Given theeconomicinstability, why is business consistently optimistic?
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From the mid-1970s, the country experiencedeconomicinstabilityand decline, the virtual collapse of its urban industries and rising poverty and unemployment.
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The implementation of contract labor, while enabling workers the freedom to accept or refuse employment, resulted in social andeconomicinstability.
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It is widely claimed that social change andeconomicinstabilityhave put families under growing strain, to the particular detriment of women's wellbeing.
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Advocates were willing to support deregulation so long as it did not expose consumers toeconomicinstability or upset the fabric of traditional socio-economic life.
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Another factor was the continued political and, as mentioned above,economicinstability.
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Gaunt borrowed the arguments about conflict andeconomicinstabilityfrom a nineteenthcentury political debate, accepting them as true evidence of fact.
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I was just fascinated with those kinds of technical problems, and also thought that they had some importance in understanding the forces that dampeneconomicinstability.
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When those conflicts are combined with an arms race and with political andeconomicinstability, there is bound to be trouble.
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He is concerned about slow growth and too mucheconomicinstability, high unemployment alongside skill shortages, and inadequate investment in education, infrastructure and new technologies.
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I say that bearing in mind theeconomicinstabilityon which all subversion feeds.
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They are specifically designed to stimulate the use of private capital in the fight against recession, unemployment andeconomicinstability.
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European interests—as defined broadly in terms of refugee flows andeconomicinstability—are engaged there, and we would wish to be engaged.
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However, poverty, hunger and disease are the main causes of theeconomicinstabilitythat investors fear.
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We have recognised that unbalanced distribution of income and wealth is destabilising, and we have combated the forces, such as unemployment, that feedeconomicinstability.
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