DEEM


Meaning of DEEM in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be considered/deemed essential

During the summer, air conditioning is considered essential.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

too

It was deemed too heavy, but its styling had many admirers.

In the United States, volunteers are shooed away from spill cleanup, deemed too toxic for unprotected citizens.

Staff provide the services that are deemed too lowly for the wife.

Safety requirements that in the past were deemed too expensive deserve fresh reviews.

The evidence he had provided in his report had been deemed too conjectural for the issuing of a search warrant.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And billboards promoting movies deemed violent or risque have their share of critics.

Did those figures improve because of creative bean-counting techniques in which fewer calls are deemed worthy of investigation?

Lastly, they want to give tax advantages to causes deemed worthy, or at least popular.

Quite, the others scoffed, but that did not deem it holy.

Rescheduling was deemed better than default.

The clearing banks, in addition, hold at the Bank whatever operational balances they deem necessary.

The issues the Republicans deem worthy of constitutional protection are a motley lot of special-interest pleadings.

The Rossi style is so revered that construction of an exact copy was deemed presumptuous.

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