acceptable standard

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meanings of acceptableand standard

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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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standard
noun
uk /ˈstæn.dəd/ us /ˈstæn.dɚd/
a level ...
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Examples of acceptable standard

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What is clear is that, from a legal perspective, there is only one acceptablestandard and that is the reasonable standard.
Or put differently, what role do social policies play in aiding migrants and ethnic minorities to maintain an acceptablestandard of living?
The important question here is whether dissimilar social policy constructions account for the differences in migrants' ability to enjoy a socially acceptablestandard of living.
The challenge remains to find a generally acceptablestandard.
To harm someone in this sense is to make them worse off than they ought to be, relative to some reasonable or acceptablestandard.
Such rapid urbanization creates pressures for provision of adequate water supply of an acceptablestandard.
There is no agreement over the minimum acceptablestandard.
As regards the future of the usage, my feelings are that it is on the increase and may one day become an acceptablestandard form.
With 20 years of follow-up, breast conservation therapy is an acceptablestandard of care for the majority of patients with early-stage breast cancer.
In response to these questions it would seem essential that healthcare institutions develop futility policies that contribute toward an acceptablestandard of practice.
Very few singers had entered, none of acceptablestandard, and only one with a voice that could pass for 'professional'.
In this way we can establish the role of these policies in reducing poverty or, conversely, in maintaining a socially acceptablestandard of living.
In a broad sense, decommodification refers to the ability to enjoy an acceptablestandard of living independently of market participation (1990: 37).
This position, if it becomes ascendant, would severely undercut the defensive importance of ' 'custom' ' as the definitive indicator of the acceptablestandard of care.
So far we have established that significant differences exist between citizen and immigrant households in maintaining a socially acceptablestandard of living.
Where the performance of a particular worker is found to be below an acceptablestandard and there are sufficient workers to do the job, the worker is rejected.
As a first step, we determine the incidence of households having a socially acceptablestandard of living: that is, the proportion of households above the poverty line.
The second dimension refers to the degree of freedom of choice to provide care-giving work within the family under conditions which secure an acceptablestandard of living.
With respect to the inherent possibilities of the system to provide care under conditions which secure an acceptablestandard of living, the potential for defamilisation is low.
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