feasible alternative

collocation in English

meaningsoffeasibleandalternative

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feasible
adjective
uk
/ˈfiː.zə.bəl/us
/ˈfiː.zə.bəl/
able to be made, done, ...
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alternative
noun[C]
uk
/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/us
/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
something that is different from something else, especially from what is usual, and offering the possibility ...
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(Definition offeasibleandalternativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A full-fledged annual zero-base budgeting procedure is not afeasiblealternative, but recurrent attempts to reconsider policies should be made.
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The economic ties of wage labour offered afeasiblealternative.
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Each chapter then ends with an experiential analysis that is (meant as) an intuitively better and empirically morefeasiblealternativeto the two traditional perspectives.
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Flemming presents two arguments in favour of constraint weighting as a computationally morefeasiblealternativeto constraint domination.
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The input-output analysis revealed floating gardening to be afeasiblealternativelivelihood option for the wetland dwellers.
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Fortunately, our constraint solver provides afeasiblealternative.
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Reforms were the onlyfeasiblealternative.
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Group contributions could be a morefeasiblealternativeto increase incentives for private participation.
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Thesefindingshave shown that balloon angioplasty is afeasiblealternativeto surgery, although vascular complications, recoarctation and formation of aneurysms are worrisome complications.
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The availability of large text corpora has made statistical methods in natural language processing afeasiblealternativeor complementary approach to the ones used commonly in artificial intelligence.
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I do not find that, at any rate at first flush, afeasiblealternative.
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It showed that even with a substantial cut—it referred to a "feasiblealternative" and considered a cut of much more than the ls.
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What will be thefeasiblealternativeto remedy this loss?
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Such a policy would be more flexible and might encourage some bigger producers to give up dairying in areas wherefeasiblealternativeenterprises are available.
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Often there is nofeasiblealternativeto the asset take-over in the absence of other offers and in the interests of the creditors generally.
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I have outlined for one industry, at any rate, afeasiblealternativeto the present system.
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It is difficult to see anyfeasiblealternative.
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In this country there is afeasiblealternativeroute by conventional roads to every motorway that we have, or are likely to have.
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In that way we could begin to devise a tax system which would be a reasonabl andfeasiblealternativeto the present system.
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But there is no watertight definition of what is afeasiblealternative.
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