entire population
collocation in Englishmeaningsofentireandpopulation
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entire
adjective[before noun]
uk/ɪnˈtaɪər/us/ɪnˈtaɪr/
whole or complete, with ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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(Definition ofentireandpopulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Clearly the age distribution of the kin of people aged 55- 64 years is not the same as the age distribution of theentirepopulation.
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It focuses on theentirepopulationof members, both actual and future patients.
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It may have consequences on a larger scale, when, for example, a tree-fall destroys anentirepopulationof epiphytes.
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These results, therefore, are not generalizable to theentirepopulation, and other factors need to be taken into account.
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In as much as pension insurance embraced theentirepopulation, insurance for work-related injuries needed to include that part of the population that was employed.
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Moreover, by working with theentirepopulationof existing design solutions, it makes the indexation and selection of relevant cases redundant.
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This reinforces the importance of the problem in countries without well organized health care or without wide access of theentirepopulationto such care.
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Since the current recommendations favour mass distribution covering theentirepopulationin endemic areas, these areas must be defined carefully.
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Women were almost exclusively drawn from managerial positions in large companies (very young and career oriented), while males were more representative of theentirepopulation.
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The general pension insurance thus established encompassed theentirepopulation.
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Websites should be designed with this in mind and should be usable by theentirepopulation.
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This system allows us to examine anentirepopulation, made up of millions of individuals with varying experiences of making investment decisions.
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We used theentirepopulationof patients seen in palliative care and then admitted to hospice.
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Also, the single-channel activity remaining may not be representative of theentirepopulationof the junctional channels.
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The generals also took measures to organize theentirepopulationinto paramilitary organizations.
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If this were true for theentirepopulation, then 49 per cent of women would have been polygamously married in 1931.
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Marital fertility rates refer to fertility among currently married women, and fertility among theentirepopulationis better indicated by the total fertility rate.
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Since 1955, however, the population of older people has grown sevenfold while theentirepopulationhas increased at half that rate.
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For instance, in public health the target group is theentirepopulation, not just the members or the clients belonging to specific disease groups.
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