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suitable substitute

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suitable
adjective
uk /ˈsuː.tə.bəl/ us /ˈsuː.t̬ə.bəl/
acceptable or right for someone ...
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substitute
noun[C]
uk /ˈsʌb.stɪ.tʃuːt/ us /ˈsʌb.stə.tuːt/
a thing or person that is used instead of another thing ...
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Examples of suitable substitute


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The joint implementation of these policies aims at reducing congestion and pollution, especially during peak hours, by restraining demand for private transportation while providing a suitablesubstitute.
But we would go further and state that neither is the suppression of economic growth or of economic policies conducive to it a suitablesubstitute for environmental policy.
The only problem that remains is with aerosols such as asthma inhalers and pain relieving sprays, for which no suitablesubstitute has yet been found.
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In addition, groundnut oil, which is a suitablesubstitute for olive oil for culinary purposes, is being allocated to them.
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Can he confirm that that system is a suitablesubstitute for books in many areas of many subjects?
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Our second principle must be flexibility—a horrible word which is used far too often, but for which it is difficult to find a suitablesubstitute.
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I hope that the explanation is in fact a suitablesubstitute for the new clause.
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There is no suitablesubstitute for that experience in arriving at the right sentence.
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Such applications for extension will receive sympathetic consideration, but farmers should, in the meantime, make every effort to obtain suitablesubstitute labour.
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Restriction of privileges was chosen as a suitablesubstitute which lacked many of the minor irritations of the old system.
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There is no better or more suitablesubstitute in that case, and that must be the test.
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They suggested that maximum fines should be reviewed, since a heavier fine might be a suitablesubstitute for imprisonment.
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The first method is to economise on the use of bricks by using such suitablesubstitute materials as are available where it is technically possible.
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One of the questions which the paper addresses and seeks comments upon is whether a tribunal would be a suitablesubstitute to a right of appeal to the courts.
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Social workers tell me that there; can never be enough suitablesubstitute parents to meet the numbers of all these children.
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The ex-service man who was offered a foreman of works post had not the special training and qualifications which would have made him a suitablesubstitute.
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Whenever an employer refuses a suitablesubstitute the farm worker's certificate will be reviewed, in consultation with the agricultural representative.
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They were released on the suitablesubstitute for their owner and allowed to marry with the person of their choice.
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It also makes a suitablesubstitute for mayonnaise in traditional egg or tuna salad and as a sauce thickener.
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In the other half, he proposes humanism as a suitablesubstitute of religion for a moral life or what he calls a good life.
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