substandard conditions
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsubstandardandcondition
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substandard
adjective
uk/sʌbˈstæn.dəd/us/sʌbˈstæn.dɚd/
below a ...
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condition
noun
uk/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/us/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
the particular state that something or someone ...
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(Definition ofsubstandardandconditionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The accommodation which is left with us is to a large degree in asubstandardcondition.
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We have read of some particularly disturbing cases of ill-treatment of children living in very substandard conditions.
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It is authorities which do not do much which can boast that they have few vacant properties, although they have people living in substandard conditions.
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Certainly those statistics are of no comfort to those living in crowded or substandard conditions.
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There are thousands of orphaned or abandoned children who live in substandard conditions.
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Hundreds of thousands more are living in overcrowded or substandard conditions.
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Nevertheless, he used an alarming phrase when he said that the dockers would lose their bonuses and soon find themselves living in substandard conditions.
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Each order made for such a purpose represents people often living in substandard conditions.
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As part of next year's board and lodging measures, we intend to take the opportunity to strengthen the existing instructions on reporting substandard conditions to those authorities.
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Some 2,000 do not know who their doctor will be and the others are seen in substandard conditions compared with what they were used to for many years.
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Secondly, it is wrong to spend large sums of money on training and subsidising talented musicians and actors and then to ask them to perform in substandard conditions.
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The affected residents are living in substandard conditions with many genetic diseases.
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In the past, the ground floor used to house the local prison, which suffered of severe overcrowding and substandard conditions.
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