old generation

collocation in English

meaningsofoldandgeneration

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old
adjective
uk
/əʊld/
us
/oʊld/
having lived or existed for ...
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generation
noun
uk
/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
all the people of about the same age within a society or within a ...
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(Definition ofoldandgenerationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is done to ensure that heap blocks in theoldgenerationare subject to collection at some point in time.
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In section 3.1, distortionary policies aimed at reducing the rate of resource use also imply a welfare reduction for the initialoldgeneration.
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Theoldgenerationof the sociolinguistic cor pus was born between 1916 and 1933.
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For theoldgeneration, much of the collection is done incrementally and by controlling the slices of incremental collection one can avoid latency hiccups.
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Upon backtracking, it is possible that heap space can be recovered in the aging space and even in theoldgenerationthrough instant reclaiming.
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Theoldgeneration, born between 1915 and 1920, were mostly tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or plantation workers.
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Monopolistic firms are owned by the currentlyoldgeneration.
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That is, we ignore the initialoldgenerationin our welfare calculations.
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Ageing parents have little direct power, except for making bequests, but transfers to them imply future transfers to the nextoldgenerationand so on.
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Theoldgeneration, more than earlier generations, was profoundly subjected to the consequences of linguistic imperialism.
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The young generation born at t receives the whole stock of money and theoldgenerationborn at t - 1 consumes the whole production.
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Thus, the government always provides the subsidy to eliminate this inefficiency and further reduces the transfers to theoldgenerationin each period.
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The heap is divided into two generations: anoldgeneration(the old space) and a fixed size nursery space (new space).
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As a fine-tuning, collections of heap blocks belonging to theoldgenerationalso take into account the survival rate of the collected block.
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The young generation born at t receives the whole stock of money, and theoldgenerationborn at t - 1 consumes the whole production.
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During a garbage collection of the aging space, the live cells in the aging space are copied to the top of theoldgeneration.
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Collected revenues of emission tax are redistributed to theoldgenerationas a lump sum payment.
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When the economy begins at t = 1, there is an initialoldgeneration.
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