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acceptable alternative

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meanings of acceptableand alternative


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acceptable
adjective
uk /əkˈsept.ə.bəl/ us /əkˈsept.ə.bəl/
satisfactory and able to be agreed to or ...
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alternative
noun[C]
uk /ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/ us /ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
something that is different from something else, especially from what is usual, and offering the possibility ...
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Examples of acceptable alternative


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British immigrants came from a country where accoucheurs were an increasingly acceptablealternative to midwives.
When faced with the possibility of remaining childless, many of the treated couples had turned to adoption as an acceptablealternative.
However, early mitral valve repair offers for the others lesions an acceptablealternative to reach the adult age, demonstrated on long term results.
His objective was not to replace or improve the puppet opera, but rather to create an equally acceptablealternative, performable by opera companies.
Transcatheter embolization in adults of single congenital coronary fistulas with detachable balloons and coils is safe and effective and can be regarded as an acceptablealternative to surgery.
There are lifeline services for which there is no acceptablealternative.
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Expansion of the renewables sector is perhaps the most media-friendly and certainly the most environmentally acceptablealternative together with promoting continued energy efficiency programmes.
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A varyingly timed rest day is not an acceptablealternative.
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The gap between hanging and any other acceptablealternative, however devised, is bound to be wide.
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We should like to consider further, in consultation with the board, a generally acceptablealternative, if such can be devised.
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It will be essential to ensure that such growth is balanced growth by providing an acceptablealternative to the crossing by sea or air.
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They must learn to work in a context where war is no longer an acceptablealternative to diplomacy.
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In some cases, they may have acceptablealternative experience.
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I welcome industry efforts to find an acceptablealternative which will satisfy performance requirements.
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In some cases, there are acceptablealternative medical interventions.
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I know that he takes the view that the proposal that has emerged from the joint working group is an acceptablealternative.
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We have always believed that if we cannot come up with an acceptablealternative, it is as well to stick to what we have.
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Very few, and none which offers a practical and acceptablealternative.
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Nor has it offered any acceptablealternative means of reaching a settlement of the miners' dispute.
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I hope that desalination will eventually become an acceptablealternative, at least in particular situations.
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