transitional stage

collocation in English

meanings of transitionaland stage

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transitional
adjective
uk /trænˈzɪʃ.ən.əl/ us /trænˈzɪʃ.ən.əl/
belonging or relating to a change, or the process of change, from one form or type ...
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stage
noun[C]
uk /steɪdʒ/ us /steɪdʒ/
a part of an activity or a period ...
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Examples of transitional stage

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The situation is sometimes little more than a transitionalstage in a general language shift.
Courtship, within the historically specific context of near 'total marriage ', constituted a transitionalstage between gendered youth and gendered adulthood.
However, the question is whether we are dealing with a transitionalstage or with an episode of structural institutional transformation.
Responses of preadolescent and some adolescent subjects (about 6 -14 years) are characteristic of the transitionalstage.
In other words, some bilingual children seem to pass through a rather long transitionalstage before fully converging with the target-grammar.
Such spellings are thought to predominate during the transitionalstage.
In other words, we have skipped a transitionalstage of development.
These spellings are thought to occur during the transitionalstage.
In other words, we have evidence for a rather long transitionalstage in these children.
Additionally, lake shores are little influenced by river inflow and exhibit a transitionalstage between oversupplied and sediment-starved conditions.
This might represent an early transitionalstage to a hypereactive adrenal.
The upshot of this experiment is the suggestion that seven- to eight-year-old children are at a transitionalstage in their understanding of substances and of functions associated with substances.
To conclude, left-branching may be viewed as an unstable structure in that it represents a transitionalstage between right-branching and a decrease in mor phological complexity.
March represented the transitionalstage month for the leafing phenophase of this species.
Looking ahead, that suggests that perhaps our current questions concern only a transitionalstage in the research.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Let us provide for those who will be without it in the transitionalstage.
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Obviously there will be a transitionalstage, and during that stage there will be, as there clearly have been, social strains.
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They see variable geometry as no more than a transitionalstage to the ever closer union.
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