total quality

collocation in English

meaningsoftotalandquality

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total
adjective
uk
/ˈtəʊ.təl/us
/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/
including ...
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quality
noun
uk
/ˈkwɒl.ə.ti/us
/ˈkwɑː.lə.t̬i/
how good or bad ...
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(Definition oftotalandqualityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Scores are obtained f or each of the subscales and, when combined, these subscores generate atotalqualityof life score.
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His current research interests are in the areas of fuzzy logic in production problems, andtotalqualitymanagement.
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Typical flexible organizations include work teams, job rotation,totalqualitycontrol, and quality circles.
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Scores are obtained f or each of the subscales and when combined, these subscores generate atotalqualityof life score.
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We conducted separate queries of the same databases using search terms related to process change, including health care business process reengineering,totalqualitymanagement, change initiatives, and evidence-based management.
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This finding is particularly relevant in the case of large-scale process change referred to variously astotalqualitymanagement, continuous quality improvement, or business process reengineering (31;80).
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Second, greater fragmentation is occurring in work organisation, although most industrial relations systems are grappling with the themes of team-working,totalqualitymanagement and new human resource management practices.
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I was aware that original gravity is only one part of thetotalqualityof the brew; there are the alcoholic content, and other things.
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We believe in increasing the total quantum of training and thetotalqualityof training and education in the economy.
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If the quality of life at work is poor, thetotalqualityof life is diminished.
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Totalqualitythroughout the manufacturing process, from the selection of raw materials to delivery at the point of sale, is essential.
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It has pioneered some day surgery and it is a national demonstration model for what is calledtotalqualitymanagement.
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There is no prescriptivetotalqualitymanagement framework for this.
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In the field of quality management and that oftotalquality, progress is also being made.
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I am not advocating employee empowerment ortotalqualitymanagement.
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Thetotalqualityof meat and bonemeal incinerated so far is 157,613 tonnes, with a further 431,190 tonnes in store.
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A total of £500,000 was made available in 1989–90 from central funds to assist 17 district health authorities implementtotalqualitymanagement.
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The first is the need to enhance customer service and attaintotalqualitystandards.
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They will design and make most things first, fastest and best, as the super-computer facilitatestotalqualitycontrol, among other things.
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These days very many businesses have taken on boardtotalqualitymanagement programmes.
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