I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
precipitate a crisis formal (= start one )
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The rising oil prices precipitated an energy crisis.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
collapse
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And an extended payments schedule might well recover the debt more surely than strict enforcement - which might instead precipitate financial collapse .
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The strains arising from insecurity can often precipitate collapse .
crisis
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A summit failure could still precipitate a new crisis .
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My changing musical tastes also precipitated a small crisis in my religious development.
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Ironically, in view of what had happened fifty years earlier, it was now the School's success which precipitated the next crisis .
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Butsy was sixteen and aware that the trip had been precipitated by a crisis .
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However, the Baudrillardian collapse of certainties has precipitated a crisis in our understanding of representation and realism.
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A relatively small withdrawal of oil from the world market in October 1973 was sufficient to precipitate an acute crisis .
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If they do not, the party could lose its majority in parliament, precipitating a government crisis .
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Demonstrations against his policy, which took place from 18-21 April, precipitated a cabinet crisis .
resignation
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The violent communal riots of 1969 precipitated his resignation as Prime Minister in 1970.
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If this was their intention, they succeeded - by precipitating his resignation .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An attack on the country could precipitate a world war.
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Both countries claimed the same area, precipitating a border war.
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The 1929 stock market crash precipitated the collapse of the American banking system.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Butsy was sixteen and aware that the trip had been precipitated by a crisis.
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For this reason, an increase in population density often precipitates a round of emigration.
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Ironically, in view of what had happened fifty years earlier, it was now the School's success which precipitated the next crisis.
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Some 592 people had been injured in the police attack on student demonstrators, which precipitated the November revolution.
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Tetany may be triggered by hyperventilation or precipitated by vomiting or by pregnancy and lactation.
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Thus differences in 18 O/ 16 O ratio may be expected between water and calcite precipitating from it.
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What world historical events were precipitated by incidents that occurred then?
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I producing fixed capital, there would be a precipitate decline in those sectors.
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Sedimentary rocks show stratification and form by settling of erosional debris and chemical precipitates.
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This inhibition is caused by the formation of insoluble precipitates of calcium, phosphate, and bile acid micelles.
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When the solution becomes turbid the mixture is warmed until the precipitate dissolves.
III. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I have much sympathy with those who warn against precipitate novelty in the food industry.