adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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manslaughter
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Beneath the law of involuntary manslaughter lie some deep issues of general principle.
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Prosecutors have said that possible charges include negligent homicide, involuntary manslaughter and second-degree murder.
repatriation
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December 1989 start of involuntary repatriation of boat people p. 37122.
unemployment
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It is not surprising that involuntary unemployment may be long term.
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Payments designed to bridge periods of involuntary unemployment do provide modestly for some wholly voluntary idleness in Florida.
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It is clearly imperative to arrive at a correct diagnosis of the origins of involuntary unemployment .
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Real and money wages in the General Theory: what is involuntary unemployment ?
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The loss of potential output resulting-from involuntary unemployment is clearly a serious matter for an economy.
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The government was persistently unwilling to amend Poor Law principles to take account of the mounting evidence of extensive involuntary unemployment .
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The distinction between voluntary and involuntary unemployment is blurred and may affect women disproportionately.
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Many employers and social observers recognized the existence of involuntary unemployment and inadequate pay.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an involuntary muscle contraction
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Her teeth were chattering and she gave an enormous involuntary shudder.
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With an involuntary yell of alarm, she tumbled forward.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even in healthy subjects the eyeball exhibits rapid, involuntary , oscillatory movements, a phenomenon called nystagmus.
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I let out an involuntary gasp.
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It is not surprising that involuntary unemployment may be long term.
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It would seem that involuntary affirmation could be commanded only on even more immediate and urgent grounds than silence.
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Overall, the patients who underwent the pallidotomy had fewer involuntary movements than those who received medicine alone.
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Though mirages are natural phenomena, the illusion of my standing in a dish was an involuntary product of the imagination.