adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
weak/ailing/depressed
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The economy is weak and consumer confidence is low.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's taking care of his ailing mother.
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Smith transformed GM's ailing European operations in the '80s.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It also owns an insurance company, Fata, and has a stake in an ailing private bank.
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It can repair the shattered beliefs and, sometimes, the ailing soul of an organization gone awry.
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It may also come to the rescue of ailing banks.
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Later in marriage a particularly keen sense of commitment may be felt towards aged or ailing parents.
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Puppies will herd hens in a farmyard, just as a pack of wolves will encircle an ailing prey.
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The government is trying to boost the ailing economy by converting the defence industry to civilian production.
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The traveller, we now discover, is a young man whose ailing parents want him to stay within reach.