adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
repetitive strain injury
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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Although the diagram is simple and highly repetitive , few will get it completely correct.
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Relay assembly was a highly repetitive , manual job.
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The store manager said that core staff motivation was a problem because after a while the job becomes highly repetitive .
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A highly repetitive , textured and grouped baseline is promoted by a series of small mutations that do not interrupt its continuity.
■ NOUN
job
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Thus occupied on this repetitive job , the mind is free to wander and daydream.
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Such jobs will be eliminated just as manual, repetitive jobs were replaced by automation in the 1980s.
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It removes the need for G-cramps and battens for many tasks, and speeds up repetitive jobs .
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Taylor believed in the division of labour since tasks could be broken down into simple repetitive jobs .
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Many people doing boring or repetitive jobs deliberately introduce a certain amount of stress to make the routine more exciting.
strain
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Office workers can suffer from work-related ill-health such as repetitive strain injury.
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Can children get repetitive strain injury from playing too much Super-Nintendo?
task
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The same knowledge can of course help design robots to replace the human in certain skilled but repetitive tasks .
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Computers are now being brought into this profession to perform repetitive tasks .
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For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness.
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They were seen as mindless individuals who could take on repetitive tasks .
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Both groups dislike repetitive tasks and have learned to delegate to others.
work
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Elimination of tedious repetitive work such as casting and balancing. 5.
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These costs were attributed to job dissatisfaction caused by boring, repetitive work .
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This applies particularly to routines and repetitive work where the main operator limitation is not capacity or skill but stamina.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of the work we have to do is repetitive .
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As children we suffered through schoolwork that was dull and repetitive .
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He has some good ideas, but his lectures can get a little repetitive .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A total of eight calls were made that day and although a routine became evident, it was never repetitive .
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But we believe that under the less than optimal circumstances of reality, repetitive reorganizing does far more damage than good.
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Clonic refers to repetitive rhythmical involuntary muscle contractions.
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I think the same process occurs in the repetitive rhythm of slow long-distance running.
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In the culture of the copy, he has written the perfect book: original and repetitive at once.
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These repetitive simultaneous pressure waves usually occurred together with the lower oesophageal sphincter component of the migrating motor complex.
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This idea of a perpetually repetitive pattern of events inspired a sense of security from the menace of change and decay.
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Yet perhaps the most frustrating incompetence of all is that which is repetitive .