noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
apparent
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Both contrasted this apparent indifference with the West's readiness to criticize the damaging of rainforest by logging.
public
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He is resigned to public indifference to the benefits of efficiency, as well as to the effects of greenhouse gases.
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So their public indifference only came across as denial.
total
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But he has sterling qualities, particularly courage and a total indifference to public opinion.
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She walked with total indifference to what she saw.
■ NOUN
curve
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Consider an indifference curve in space.
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For a competitive equilibrium, this line must be tangent to the individual's indifference curve .
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Three examples of such indifference curves are illustrated by and in Figure 6.4.
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Any such level of output will put the median voter on a higher indifference curve than would the reversion level.
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The equilibrium allocation for the median voter shifts from point E° on indifference curve I 1 to E 1 on I 2.
■ VERB
show
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It is sad that the Labour party has already shown indifference to that form of arts funding.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He seem bored now; and he blinked at Mitchell with imperious indifference .
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In spite of his indifference , it was exquisite: the ditch banks were creamy with cowslips and lilac with cuckoo flower.
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It is a bizarre setting, to say the least, where the boredom and indifference can be measured in metric tons.
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The absence of military protection for the abolitionists in Alton lends credence to legal indifference that bound the country at this time.
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There was no disagreement in accusing the National government of callousness and indifference .
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They fought incompetence, inclement weather and indifference .
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This hypothesis generates an infinite set of indifference curves which are convex to the L axis.