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legitimate fear

collocation in English

meanings of legitimateand fear


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legitimate
adjective
uk /ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mət/ us /ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mət/
allowed ...
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fear
noun[C or U]
uk /fɪər/ us /fɪr/
an unpleasant emotion or thought that you have when you are frightened or worried by something dangerous, painful, or bad that is happening or ...
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Examples of legitimate fear


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It is a legitimatefear of the developing world that countries with large trade volumes will be able to dictate even wider agendas than before.
However, we have a legitimatefear, based on the experience of other countries, that that might not always remain the case.
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We have repeatedly stressed the dockers' legitimatefear of a return to casualisation.
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If someone has a legitimatefear of persecution, they flee abroad and try to seek asylum.
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There is therefore a legitimatefear that, as a result, drivers and companies will regularly be tempted not to comply with the statutory standards.
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Unlike other provisions, these measures will not create the legitimatefear that bodies will take up such activities in a cavalier fashion.
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The position in the industrial field, for instance, is that there is legitimatefear that our nation's very industrial base is being permanently undermined.
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I understood him to say that the fear of a growing taxation was a very legitimatefear.
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Will that meet that very legitimatefear and worry?
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There is a legitimatefear that in their struggle for survival the wine growers will be lured by subsidies into destroying their vineyards.
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It is a major step for someone with a legitimatefear to seek refuge in exile.
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It is a small point, but it was felt to be a legitimatefear, and it is covered by this paragraph.
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The argument has two bases: one is the fear that this is a dangerous precedent—that is a legitimatefear—and the other is a fear of the unknown.
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That is a legitimatefear.
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It was a legitimatefear.
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Just as it attracts those with a legitimatefear of oppression who hope to build a new life, it also, unfortunately, draws in the unscrupulous, bogus applicant.
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This is a very legitimatefear.
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We had to deal not just with the legitimate fears of the medical profession but with a great deal of ghosts and bogey men.
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I am in favour of meeting legitimate fears but not of knocking down ninepins.
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Exaggerated responses, even to legitimate fears, are signs of pathological abnormality and defence expenditure thus based is self-defeating.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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