adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a practical/viable proposition (= likely to be possible or successful )
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A complete ban on strikes is not a practical proposition.
a viable alternative (= that can work as successfully )
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Hydrogen offers a viable alternative to petrol and diesel.
a viable business (= one that is likely to be successful )
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It soon became clear that the restaurant was not a viable business.
a viable/practical option (= something you can choose that will be successful )
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Surgery may be a viable option when all else fails.
commercially viable (= certain to make money )
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The project is no longer commercially viable .
economically viable/feasible (= likely to be or remain financially successful )
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Most of the coal mines in the area are no longer economically viable.
financially viable
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Is the project financially viable ?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
commercially
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Two other developments have helped to make mains signalling commercially viable .
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These approaches produced successes, and the subfield of expert systems became commercially viable .
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A number of grants and incentives are available for projects which are socially desirable, but not commercially viable without support.
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They've devised a series of guidelines that will enable the beauty spot to stay both commercially viable and beautiful.
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Still, I suppose the play's commercially viable .
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Given the limited scale of release in Britain, the results were encouraging rather than commercially viable .
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The point is to be commercially viable .
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Indeed, at least one unspecified outfit is thought to have decided that the Architecture-Neutral Format is commercially viable now.
economically
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In recent years coal gasification has become increasingly economically viable due to technological developments.
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But they say that around £100 million is needed to ensure such projects are economically viable in the short term.
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Nuclear power has never been economically viable .
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At present such storage is not economically viable .
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Changing print technology will simply serve to reduce further these barriers to entry, making even lower print runs economically viable .
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Observers have pointed out that the Gabcikovo power plant could only be economically viable if a substantial amount of water is diverted.
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The development of these was not remotely economically viable at pre-1974 oil prices.
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It might also finally make recycling economically viable .
financially
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The growth of competition put paid to repeated attempts by the railways and the political authorities to establish a financially viable railway.
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The project needs orders of between 180 and 200 aircraft before production is financially viable .
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With a minimum wage this nursery would no longer have been financially viable .
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The first two figures revealed that everyone was looking to the farm to be financially viable .
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It was essential that we become more professional in our outlook and make ourselves more financially viable .
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Many builders do not consider it financially viable to maintain a stock of materials at a yard.
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The alternative route was chosen on three criteria: that it should be environmentally acceptable, operationally effective and financially viable .
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It's the result of years of work by scientists at a nuclear establishment which is branching out to stay financially viable .
more
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A merger, Nicholson added, is a more viable alternative to keeping the brewery open than the planned management buy-out.
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The investment remains beyond reach for many, but the choices today are much broader and more viable than 10 years ago.
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Now that it is a more viable way of getting the best possible house, young design talent could quickly transform domestic building.
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And it would reduce spending, limit special interest influence and make challengers more viable .
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The approach has generally been both more realistic and more viable since those days.
■ NOUN
alternative
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It is slightly longer and more expensive, but is nevertheless a viable alternative should the Qatif alignment be politically unfeasible.
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General practitioners may need viable alternatives to Graham Butland's proposals to avoid losing responsibility for their practices.
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Do you have a viable alternative ?
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However, because a Court Scheme requires the co-operation of the target it is not a viable alternative to a hostile bid.
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The electrical giants of the age, Siemens and Edison, were not yet able to offer a viable alternative .
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Without a viable alternative , the impact of higher taxes is to raise business costs and reduce consumer incomes.
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Your reviewer recommends Gombrich's Story of Art as a viable alternative .
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A merger, Nicholson added, is a more viable alternative to keeping the brewery open than the planned management buy-out.
business
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We are suffering the failure of viable businesses .
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Buller said he and his partner believe there are now enough home computer users to make their service a viable business .
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What keeps the propliners of the world still going as viable business propositions is an item known as the bottom line.
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He is looking for a partner to retain the pub as a viable business .
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But setting up a viable business requires more of its leaders than good looks and a talent for poetry.
option
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Most schools are in such poor physical condition and are so poorly equipped that this is unlikely to be a viable option .
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But a few weeks on the job convinced him that mere maintenance was not, in this instance, a viable option .
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This leaves criminal prosecution as the only viable option .
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This is not a viable option in the long run.
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It would be up to the scientists to decide which is the viable option and which belongs to the realm of science fiction.
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This, it seems, was not a viable option .
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Moving the company was not a viable option .
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As far as business is concerned, a federal takeover of health care was never a viable option .
proposition
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Recording the electrical activity of single brain cells in mammals only became a viable proposition in the 1950s.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do you think this is a viable proposition?
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Nuclear energy is the only viable alternative to coal or gas.
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They are in favour of the program, but they want strong assurances that it is viable .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Response to radiotherapy was assessed and further laser treatment performed if a viable tumour was identified.
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The investment remains beyond reach for many, but the choices today are much broader and more viable than 10 years ago.
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The only viable route to a future of growth is to allow these basic human activities free rein.
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These approaches produced successes, and the subfield of expert systems became commercially viable .
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These are the kinds of decisions on which viable performance improvement is ultimately based.
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This leaves criminal prosecution as the only viable option.