noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
satisfy a criterion
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These programmes permit students to enter higher education without satisfying all the admissions criteria.
strict criteria (= standards that are used for judging someone or making a decision about them )
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The supermarket’s suppliers must meet strict criteria.
the selection criteria (= the set of reasons used for choosing something )
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What are your selection criteria?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
important
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Though it no longer has the same resonance, it remains an important criterion .
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I regard the most important criterion as an improvement in the delivery of patient care by the hospital in question.
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I am increasingly concerned that validators increasingly fail to use as an important criterion the total experience of a student.
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Weber also saw ownership of wealth as an important criterion for distinguishing classes.
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Thomas made participation in chapel activities an important criterion for network strength.
main
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Some line experience appears a main criterion .
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The main criterion for subdivision of the detrital rocks is grain size, given as the diameter of the grain in millimeters.
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Intestinal metaplasia in four or more biopsy specimens was the main criterion for inclusion in the study.
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Therefore, the main criterion is value for money.
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The main criterion for an effective service must be that it is staffed by experienced professionals who are appropriately qualified.
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There will be no point telling speakers they are using prevaricate wrongly, because usage is the main criterion for meaning.
only
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To be sure, this is not the only criterion: the voices of other Christians may be very confused.
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The only criterion is that of mutual comprehension.
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Age was not the only criterion in his choice of parts.
sole
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Assertions that intention is the sole criterion of validity are few, suspect, and found only in post-classical texts.
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But many borrowers choose an appealing discount deal as the sole criterion when they take out a loan.
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A criterion of instant and obvious utility can not be the sole criterion for the inclusion of items in the school curriculum.
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Thus age should not be the sole criterion for withholding aggressive treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in older patients.
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The sole criterion is the market price of the land.
■ VERB
apply
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To apply the social efficiency criterion the government needs information on social costs and benefits.
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Success is not guaranteed by applying this criterion of selection.
fulfil
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How few human beings in the entire galaxy could fulfil that criterion !
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Whichever, both entries fulfil my third criterion .
meet
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Cascaded identical sections that meet this criterion are all identically loaded and, therefore, behave identically.
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Thus, most of the research they discuss does not even meet the criterion they chose for their review.
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Simplistic hierarchies do not meet this criterion .
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It would be better to fit a line which met some predetermined criterion .
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If a child is not able to meet this criterion , then the method is not appropriate.
satisfy
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Both Nash reversion and Abreu's simple penal codes are subgame perfect equilibrium strategies and so satisfy this criterion of credibility.
use
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The presence or absence of reflux symptoms was not used as a selection criterion for asthmatics.
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Wilson and Connerly also are mulling a ban on using race as a criterion in awarding financial aid, the sources said.
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It can occur when age is used as a criterion for redundancy or early retirement.
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Their hope was that the statement could be used as the principal criterion for selecting an appropriate organization structure.
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I am increasingly concerned that validators increasingly fail to use as an important criterion the total experience of a student.
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Other researchers use less strict criteria and claim to find competence where Piagetians, using their criterion, do not.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The company's criterion for success is high sales.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A criterion of reasonableness or rational basis is obviously a narrower standard of review.
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Both Nash reversion and Abreu's simple penal codes are subgame perfect equilibrium strategies and so satisfy this criterion of credibility.
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Other researchers use less strict criteria and claim to find competence where Piagetians, using their criterion , do not.
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The criterion is the number of years before the pre-tax cash receipts from the project pay back the capital invested.
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The main criterion for subdivision of the detrital rocks is grain size, given as the diameter of the grain in millimeters.
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The merit of the project in relation to each criterion is assessed in terms of the five classes, ranging from very good to very poor.
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Their utilitarian contribution to our welfare should not, in other words, be our criterion as to whether they survive or not.
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This difference of criterion as to the character of the conflict was reflected in the way power was handled on each side.