closer alignment

collocation in English

meaningsofcloseandalignment

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close
adjective
uk
/kləʊs/us
/kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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alignment
noun
uk
/əˈlaɪn.mənt/us
/əˈlaɪn.mənt/
an arrangement in which two or more things are positioned in a straight line or parallel to ...
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(Definition ofcloseandalignmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Member-based trustee boards have their own money invested in the fund, resulting in acloseralignment between the interests of trustees and other fund members.
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It brings the contribution regimes for the employed and self-employed intocloseralignment.
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Many amendments have been made with a view tocloseralignment.
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I must stress a further point: one of our main objectives iscloseralignmentbetween the income-related benefits, income support, housing benefit and family credit.
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There are substantial obstacles to thecloseralignmentof the present rates of duty.
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The family credit proposals represent an important advance in the broad direction ofcloseralignmentbetween the tax and benefit systems.
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Acloseralignmentof views may be expected as negotiations continue.
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I do not wish to go into all the arguments about this and about what is involved incloseralignment of economic policies and so on, but this is desirable.
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Indeed, if this step towardscloseralignmentis regarded as unacceptable, it is hard to see how we can ever move the systems more closely together.
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He also brought the other houses of the order intocloseralignmentwith the motherhouse.
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It is enhanced through a more specific understanding of the neurodevelopmental demands on targeted groups of students, resulting in acloseralignmentof cognitive strengths to academic content.
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This is due to their relative straightness after the planar cloths have been generated, resulting in lower cloth wastage andcloseralignmentwith the fabric weave.
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