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[ adjective ] capable of being applied; having relevance

Examples

"gave applicable examples to support her argument

Used in print

(Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)

The company grew out of efforts by two completely inexperienced men in their late twenties , neither having a formal education applicable to , or experience in , manufacturing or selling our type of articles .

(Statements 87th Congress, 1st Session. Appropriations,...)

the magnitude of effort and costs of each of these possible phases of an effective safety program for metal and nonmetallic mines ( excluding coal and lignite mines ) ; and the scope and adequacy of State mine safety laws applicable to such mines and the enforcement of such laws .

(1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)

A hydrostatic_head correction has been neither necessary nor applicable in the determination of vapor_pressures or temperatures for the bulk liquid helium .

(Allan J. Braff and Roger F. Miller, "Wage-Price...)

While there may be several such industries to which the model of this paper is applicable , the authors make particular claim of relevance to the explanation of the course of wages and prices in the steel industry of the United_States since World_War_2 , .

(Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)

Thus , theory and doctrine applicable among the great nations and the smaller European states did not really comfortably fit less developed and less powerful societies elsewhere .

Related terms

relevant

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[ adjective ] readily applicable or practical

Related terms

practical

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