economic reality

collocation in English

meaningsofeconomicandreality

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economic
adjective
uk
/ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪk/
us
/ˌiː.kəˈnɑː.mɪk/
relating to trade, industry, ...
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reality
noun
uk
/riˈæl.ə.ti/
us
/riˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined ...
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(Definition ofeconomicandrealityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Aside from providing extensive access for children, group instrumental teaching is aneconomicrealityof music service provision.
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Secondly, theeconomicrealitywas that the establishment of a coin type to compete with the already very successful zecchino must have seemed unrealistic.
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Decisions about cost and allocations of cost reflect local organizational concerns rather than a naturaleconomicreality.
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In light of these analyses, the constructed nature of accounting implies varying degrees of nonrealism abouteconomicreality.
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Theeconomicrealityis more ambiguous than it may at first seem.
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The union leaders still knew too little about the ' social andeconomicrealityof the country ', although their aspirations and abilities were both improving.
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For him the market is a cultural construct rather than a mereeconomicreality.
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How can there be a social and institutional reality, includingeconomicreality, within a universe consisting entirely of physical particles in fields of force?
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The variety of procedures used for addressing the sameeconomicrealityoffers further evidence for a decision-theoretic perspective.
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The "octopus grip" became both a description ofeconomicrealityand also a cultural ideal.
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Only through empathetic understanding can the observer gain a purchase on theeconomicrealitythat unplanned, uncoordinated action is bringing into being.
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It did mean, however, that in need of reliable feedback from 'economicreality', the political power realised and admitted the practical significance of economic research.
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The neweconomicrealitywas seen to offer no choice to architects but to align themselves with it.
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Theeconomicrealityof much theatre practice requires repetition; a performance may be given up to eight times a week over a period of weeks, months, or years.
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Barnard (2000) argues that social dumping is more a term of political discourse than a description ofeconomicreality.
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For several decades theeconomicrealitywas that the consumer at home could not or would not invest in multi-channel amplification and loudspeakers, leaving stereo as the dominant format.
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Eucken seems to have an interesting solution to this problem: the forms distilled from historical investigation may well not be relevant to understanding contemporaryeconomicreality.
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Under these (ideal) conditions, perceptions of the economy would reflecteconomicrealityperfectly, rendering subjective and objective economic indicators substitutable and thus equally useful for explaining political behaviour.
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Much methodology and ontology of economics also involves issues of the creation ofeconomicrealitythat can and should be tackled empirically rather than a priori.
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