relative decline
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrelativeanddecline
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relative
adjective
uk/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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decline
noun[S or U]
uk/dɪˈklaɪn/us/dɪˈklaɪn/
when something becomes less in amount, importance, quality, ...
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(Definition ofrelativeanddeclinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Compared with their monopoly-sector counterparts, moreover, open-sector professionals and managers experiencerelativedeclinein income levels from 1988 to 1995.
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Therelativedeclineof the radical press as the 1850s wore on meant that the potential political power of the novel was immense.
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Credit operations experienced arelativedeclinein the 1989-94 period, recovering after 1995, but without returning to the (higher) levels of the 1980s.
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Consequently, market-oriented reforms will lead torelativedeclinein power and privileges for redistributive cadres.
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It would seem unlikely that thisrelativedeclinereflects normal ageing over this time.
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Economic transformations such as therelativedeclineof heavily unionized sectors (for example, steel) contributed to a general drop of the density ratio.
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He also shows therelativedeclineof a centralist and presidential system in the past twenty years.
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To some extent, also, therelativedeclinein sharecropping has also been caused by policy interventions.
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During the second wave (catchup), the leader is established but is inrelativedecline, as challengers for leadership develop.
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The route typical of economies which have responded poorly to policy and are inrelativedeclineis the inflationary route.
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There has been arelativedeclineamong females and an absolute decline among males.
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As a result, word categories which are initially dominant undergo arelativedecline.
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If this is so then it would seem that commercial vigour in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century petered away into stasis, sometimes interpreted asrelativedecline, by mid-century.
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As well, increasing use of regional anaesthesia for elective and emergency cases has led to arelativedeclinein the use of general anaesthesia for caesarean section.
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Thisrelativedeclinein the number of the young city-born women entering service demonstrates the transformations that were occurring in the internal structure of this particular labour market.
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Thus, the findings from the heterogeneous cadre-elite model lend no support for the hypothesis that market developments cause arelativedeclinein income levels of redistributive elites.
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It was not merely arelativedecline.
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Managers in the monopoly sector may be seen as having more political power than their counterparts in the open sector and should, according to market transition theory, experiencerelativedecline.
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Therefore, for market transition theory's prediction to be credible, officials or administrators should experience arelativedeclinein income levels compared with professionals in the open sector.
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Cadre elites, however defined and classified, did not experience arelativedeclinein income to professional elites.
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