adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
measured (= very carefully controlled )
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He spoke slowly, in a calm and measured tone.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
income
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Consider the view that the link between aggregate consumption and current measured income is a tenuous one. 4.
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People with identical opportunity sets make different decisions, because of differences in tastes, and as a consequence have different measured incomes .
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Conversely, people may have different opportunity sets but the same measured income .
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These generate income according to the comprehensive definition, but are not typically included in measured income.
tone
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Before each session, he had watched their suspect sizing up his interrogators, readying his replies in measured tones .
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Instead of their polished manner and measured tones , he sweats under the studio lights and delivers his lines in a bellow.
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If the events outlined by Kelly came as a shock or a surprise, he concealed it in his calm measured tones .
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There was almost, thought the Doctor, a trace of boredom in those measured tones .
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Let us return to the measured tones of Cliff Cunningham.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a calm and measured response
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Let us return to the measured tones of Cliff Cunningham.
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Their strident moralism jarred with both the measured middle-class radicalism of the repealers and the dominant patrician language of high politics.