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- noun Plural form of
dislocation .
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Examples
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"Any of the short-term dislocations from this debate we see as more of an opportunity to buy some Treasurys that have cheapened up a lot."
What a Downgrade Means for You Jonathan Cheng 2011
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"It will assist member states to understand and implement the protocol and help them to cushion short term dislocations they might experience as result of trade liberalisation."
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The dissolution of Yugoslavia, however, has led to severe short-term dislocations in production, employment, and trade ties.
The 1994 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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An actually better script would have been to show fiscal restraint now on the spending side, return the payroll tax or other large sums of money directly to the people, and then figure out which welfare programs to fund to ameliorate short-term dislocations due to recession.
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An actually better script would have been to show fiscal restraint now on the spending side, return the payroll tax or other large sums of money directly to the people, and then figure out which welfare programs to fund to ameliorate short-term dislocations due to recession.
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It focuses on short-term dislocations and uncontrollable cyclical changes, producing constant disappointment and encouraging inappropriate transactional responses.
American Chronicle 2008
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These are, affections of the synovial sacs, those of the joint structures, or of the bones and their articular surfaces, and those forms of solution of continuity known as dislocations or luxations.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Basing their theory on first-principles simulations, Prokofiev, Svistunov and colleagues argue that this bizarre effect is due to a synergy between superfluidity in the cores of imperfections known as dislocations and the known ability of dislocations to "climb," that is, grow under conditions when mass flow is provided to their cores.
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But we find that certain imperfections, called dislocations, have a superfluid core and thus can demonstrate super transport.
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But we find that certain imperfections, called dislocations, have a superfluid core and thus can demonstrate super transport.
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