essential ingredient

collocation in English

meaningsofessentialandingredient

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essential
adjective
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/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/
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/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/
necessary ...
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ingredient
noun[C]
uk
/ɪnˈɡriː.di.ənt/
us
/ɪnˈɡriː.di.ənt/
a food that is used with other foods in the preparation of a ...
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(Definition ofessentialandingredientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofessential ingredient

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Words are anessentialingredientand provide much of the content of what a language can be used to convey.
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In this context, the social capital of an organization emerges as anessentialingredientto help employees develop trust, respect, and understanding of others.
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Feeling is theessentialingredientof conscious will, not an add-on.
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Infrastructure is perceived as anessentialingredientfor growth and social well-being, and remains a high priority for most governments around the world.
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This construction is anessentialingredientof our argument.
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Oneessentialingredientof a commodity is its ability to be measured and quantified.
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But they are oftentimes anessentialingredientin the healing act and the fabric of the profession.
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For example, possibly infinite sets are anessentialingredientof any specification formalism, but they rarely feature as a data type in executable programs.
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Assumption 1 permits bounds on the carrier densities from below which are anessentialingredientof our analysis.
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Large scale real number computation is anessentialingredientin several modern mathematical proofs.
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Thus, the configuration task is anessentialingredientof the complete design task.
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Theory is based on experience and history but requires anessentialingredientof external criticism, which in turn connects it back to making/practice.
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In our analysis the incorporation of ecological aspects in the form of resource dynamics appeared to be anessentialingredientof the model.
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Such an assumption ignores anessentialingredientof market organization, namely, the interaction and communication among agents.
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Religious faith or spirituality is not anessentialingredientin a strong moral compass, however.
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Theessentialingredientof humanistic design is to develop ways of ensuring that older people and their families input into the design process.
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Moreover, because of user vulnerability and the infeasibility of continuously monitoring activities, trust is always anessentialingredientin social care.
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Not only is time anessentialingredientin all geological research, but the discovery of the antiquity of geological time was a truly revolutionary idea.
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Theessentialingredientof the proof is uniformity.
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