economic weakness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofeconomicandweakness
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economic
adjective
uk/ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪk/us/ˌiː.kəˈnɑː.mɪk/
relating to trade, industry, ...
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weakness
noun
uk/ˈwiːk.nəs/us/ˈwiːk.nəs/
the fact or state of not being strong ...
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(Definition ofeconomicandweaknessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The thirdeconomicweaknessthat traditionally triggers privatisation is a severe budget deficit.
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Does that indicateeconomicweakness?
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This is true despite oureconomicweakness—in fact, it may be even more true because of oureconomicweakness.
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I want now to refer to oureconomicweakness.
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That is at the heart of oureconomicweakness.
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Is not the reality that we would be locked into permanenteconomicweakness?
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This is the result of oureconomicweakness, among other things.
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They are tired of oureconomicweaknessand the loss of our industrial lead.
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Others, despite their smallness, and on some occasions despite theireconomicweakness, are now independent nations.
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The proposition thateconomicweaknessis a bar to independence has long been outmoded.
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By so doing he hampered industrial development for the future and aggravated our maineconomicweakness.
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The cause of this was chronic and persistent, indeed cumulative,economicweakness.
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They have gone out of their way to advertise what they regard as oureconomicweakness.
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Therefore, there is a guarantee of more expenditure on defence, more inflation, basiceconomicweakness.
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It was done, not for strategical reasons, but fromeconomicweakness.
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The second reality is thateconomicweaknessmeans that we have less political influence in the world.
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We are on the road to solving each one of those five factors in oureconomicweakness.
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It is to take all action that they can to remove theeconomicweaknesswhich is charged against them.
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Rising imports in the midst of a deep and damaging recession tell a story of fundamentaleconomicweakness.
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Events that have taken place since have increased interest charges—for example, theeconomicweaknessof the country.
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Will he accept, also, the view that regionaleconomicweaknessis often directly related to a lack of effective political projection?
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The truth is that for a few weeks only we had favourable financial indicators which belied our realeconomicweaknessas a country.
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We must recognise theeconomicweaknessof the argument that continued wage legislation of this sort has something to do with our economic recovery.
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On these occasions, too, there was perhaps ground for a certain lack of self-confidence in our approach to entry because of oureconomicweakness.
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There was the emergency action to check the loss of reserves, and there were long-term proposals for correcting the underlyingeconomicweakness.
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