regional imbalance

collocation in English

meaningsofregionalandimbalance

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regional
adjective
uk
/ˈriː.dʒən.əl/us
/ˈriː.dʒən.əl/
relating to or coming from a particular part of ...
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imbalance
noun[C]
uk
/ˌɪmˈbæl.əns/us
/ˌɪmˈbæl.əns/
a situation in which two things that should be equal or that are normally equal ...
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(Definition ofregionalandimbalancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The speech puts emphasis on the under-employed regions, when the whole problem of theregionalimbalance affects both the over-employed and the underemployed regions.
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I am extremely pleased about that decline, but we are grappling yet again with a seriousregionalimbalance.
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It is thisregionalimbalancethat we need to stop.
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There is one other matter which is very closely linked and that is the subject of correcting theregionalimbalancein this country.
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We have got to look at thisregionalimbalanceon a very much wider basis.
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If the correcting ofregionalimbalancedoes not have a social content, there is nothing much to be said for it.
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We must get beneath the issue ofregionalimbalanceto examine the real problems.
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One of its purposes is to correctregionalimbalance.
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There is a completeregionalimbalancein this regard.
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However, this increase in visitor numbers is masking an underlying trend, a strikingregionalimbalance.
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Like most advanced industrial countries, we have the problem ofregionalimbalance.
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The problem ofregionalimbalanceis a baffling one in many respects.
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This will help us to correct theregionalimbalanceand get the industrial developments in the right places.
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What is so disturbing also is theregionalimbalance.
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The fund must be big enough at the outset to make a start in dealing with the real problems ofregionalimbalance.
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We do not hear enough of the role that defence spending can play in reducing unemployment andregionalimbalance.
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I am convinced that we shall not solve ourregionalimbalanceby this means alone.
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There is aregionalimbalancewhich we must recognise and resolve.
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The effect of this selectivity has been to protect the less prosperous regions and will help to correctregionalimbalance.
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Then there is inefficient organisation, the subsidisation of the nationalised industries, andregionalimbalance.
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