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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Describing age & birthdays
advanced
age
age limit
aged
baby boomer
going on
gone
grown up
knock
millennial
nonagenarian
ripe
sexagenarian
sixties
something
spring chicken
sweet sixteen
teens
twenties
twinkle

age group | Business English

age group
noun[ C ]
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a group of people who are the same age or a similar age:
in/of the same age groupAccording to the study, childless women between 25 and 35 earn about 90 cents for every dollar earned by men in the same age group.
11-14/25-35/50-65, etc age groupThe new radio station is aimed at the 15-24 age group.
older/younger age groupInsurance premiums for the oldest age group should be around $30 a month.
across/for/in all age groupsThe average debt across all age groups at the end of September was £24,063.

Examples of age group

age group
For each agegroup, the original count was used as an estimate of the mean number of cases.
For each of the ten situations, the model calculated the expected number of measles cases in each agegroup over time.
The two most important classes of recipients for each agegroup of the donor are indicated in bold.
The two most important age groups of recipients of each donor agegroup are indicated in bold.
However, in this juvenile agegroup, the kinetics of worm loss was parasite dose- and host age-dependent.
Controls were pair-matched by agegroup and telephone exchange to 95 cases.
In the 35+ agegroup the incidence was highest from 1958-62 onwards.
In the 20-24 agegroup in 1971 the situation is intermediate between that in the 15-19 and the 25-29 agegroup.
This is an interesting finding in light of the fact that accurate homonym interpretation appears to be emerging, but not mastered, in this agegroup.
This shows that life review was more suitable for this agegroup in this research.
There were also agegroup differences, with the older group less likely to use everyday actions and complementary therapies.
Within each agegroup, male speakers tend to use conservative versions, and female speakers tend to use the neutral or innovative forms.
At the same time, however, the analysis shows that the same agegroup use high rates of the discourse marker like.
Figures 3 and 4 give the percentage of glide absence by agegroup.
Most of these were in the 20-29 years agegroup.
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