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precious asset

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meanings of preciousand asset


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precious
adjective
uk /ˈpreʃ.əs/ us /ˈpreʃ.əs/
of great value because of being rare, expensive, ...
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asset
noun
uk /ˈæs.et/ us /ˈæs.et/
a useful or valuable quality, skill, ...
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Examples of precious asset


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Information delivered with an abundance that was undreamt of thirty years ago is a preciousasset to the working lexicographer.
The criminal has robbed the victim of his most personal and preciousasset, which is his life.
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Our capable forces are a preciousasset that must not be squandered.
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That may be an undervaluation of a preciousasset.
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Good teachers are our most preciousasset in raising aspirations and achievement.
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The greatest investment that any nation can make must be in the education of its young people, yet this preciousasset is being destroyed.
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From a parent's point of view, there is no better person to look after one's most preciousasset, one's child, than one's own parent.
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Whatever we do we must save the children because they are our most preciousasset, but we have to be practicable.
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Those people are our nation's most preciousasset in an industry which has served us so well financially and in other ways in the past.
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It is such a vital and preciousasset that we dare not see it misused.
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I certainly think that we should still feel that this is a preciousasset which must be kept, whatever happens.
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After all, manpower is our most preciousasset.
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We continue to use that preciousasset as though it were infinite, with no attempt in our national accounts to make allowances for depreciation.
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That consensus is a preciousasset, on which we should now build.
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The health service, however, touches everyone in the country; it is a preciousasset.
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Given that consensus, the code is a preciousasset.
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We cannot value highly enough the preciousasset of our country's science base.
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This preciousasset—its value in financial terms and in employment—has diminished extraordinarily quickly in most nationalised industries over the last decade.
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That was its strength, and it is a very preciousasset.
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It is a preciousasset and its scale and variety is something at which to wonder.
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