adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unnecessary expense
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Paying extra for leather seats seemed like an unnecessary expense.
totally unacceptable/unnecessary/unsuitable etc
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Terrorism is totally unacceptable in a civilised world.
unnecessary hardship
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The ban is causing unnecessary hardship for fishermen.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The provision has been criticised as unnecessary as most organisers liaised with the police on a voluntary basis.
completely
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But she managed to find another cosmetic surgeon who would perform the completely unnecessary op.
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The act was senseless and completely unnecessary .
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His journey had been completely unnecessary .
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Longer-range devices are available on the market today but in my view they are a completely unnecessary expense.
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The constituency has been destroyed because of the destruction of its industry, mining; a destruction that was completely unnecessary .
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I find divine creation, or several such creations, a completely unnecessary hypothesis.
quite
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Also the lining, the types and varieties of which are many, is quite unnecessary !
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The greybeards made a quite unnecessary fuss about this and I was forced to employ my stout stick.
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The analogy between cultural and genetic evolution has frequently been pointed out, sometimes in the context of quite unnecessary mystical overtones.
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It was quite unnecessary that Underwood should clasp her waist like that.
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Stuart said he'd given Oliver some money, which I thought was quite unnecessary , not that I said so.
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The only comfort is to remember that it is usually foreseeable and quite unnecessary .
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The illegal break-in at the Watergate Building was in retrospect quite unnecessary in terms of Nixon's electoral changes in 1972.
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Often this is quite unnecessary , since what they are doing is as genuine research as any.
totally
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Their suffering is totally unnecessary when they could easily be slaughtered near the farm of production.
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It was totally unnecessary , to begin with.
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A locum consultant failed to spot the result of her earlier test and arranged for a totally unnecessary exploratory operation.
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The funny part of the story is that it was totally unnecessary .
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The tendency to categorize black sportsmen and women differently from the rest is faintly racist and, I believe, totally unnecessary .
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As is now clear, it was this totally unnecessary act of hubris that more than anything else frightened the voters away.
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Biological media is totally unnecessary and a waste of space.
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What is happening here is barbaric and totally unnecessary .
■ NOUN
delay
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Optimal treatment of attacks can be life saving but suboptimal treatment or unnecessary delay in the provision of care can be fatal.
duplication
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To cut unnecessary duplication , Ford decided last year to reduce its horn choices to three.
expense
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Parking where you have done seems a rather unnecessary expense , doesn't it?
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We feel that this is a very unnecessary expense and would be very time consuming for us to calculate.
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I do not complain about that so far as he is concerned because no doubt it would be an additional and unnecessary expense for him.
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But objectors say the loo is an unnecessary expense .
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Most men consider them an unnecessary expense , if they consider them at all; contraception is a women's issue.
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This can save time, worry and unnecessary expense for your family.
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Longer-range devices are available on the market today but in my view they are a completely unnecessary expense .
extravagance
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A pair of racing shoes could lift your performance or leave you with an appealing but unnecessary extravagance .
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It was an unnecessary extravagance , since I would have to be driven a hundred miles back in a car.
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In hardback, which he knew she'd think an unnecessary extravagance .
operation
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An unnecessary operation was deemed to be one that was performed without pathological evidence of surgically remediable disease.
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At this writing there seems to be a movement against circumcision on the ground that all unnecessary operations ought to be avoided.
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The proportion of unnecessary operations decreased with increasing time between presentation and operation with no increase in the proportion of complicated appendicitis.
risk
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Neither side is likely to take any unnecessary risks in a key game for both teams, so a draw is likely.
suffering
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He had carried out a deliberate act causing unnecessary suffering and cruelty.
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But in Leeds High Court, a vet denied the mink endured unnecessary suffering .
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They are both accused of fourteen offences of causing unnecessary suffering to animals.
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Woodruff admitted causing unnecessary suffering when she appeared before Swindon Magistrates.
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Doctors were unable to treat them unless and until their parents had been traced and this could cause unnecessary suffering .
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He denied two charges of abandoning the pets in circumstances likely to cause them unnecessary suffering on October 23 last year.
work
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The whole progress of mankind ought to have consisted in this: the elimination of unnecessary work .
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In either case, a large amount of unnecessary work would have to be carried out.
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One of the best ways to improve the cost and time performance of any project is to identify and eliminate unnecessary work .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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We can't afford any unnecessary delays.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another factor led to frustration, annoyance, and an unnecessary expenditure of about $ 800, 000.
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For years, I fended off these touching but unnecessary acts of charity.
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It is unnecessary for the purposes of this appeal, to express a conclusion upon them.
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The boy jerked them in over the gunwale, his father giving an unnecessary push from underneath.
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The company is to challenge the conditions imposed by Sefton Council on the grounds that they are unnecessary .
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The tendency to categorize black sportsmen and women differently from the rest is faintly racist and, I believe, totally unnecessary .
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This does not, of course, imply that nurses should not be concerned with the prevention of unnecessary accidents.