unacceptable level

collocation in English

meaningsofunacceptableandlevel

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unacceptable
adjective
uk
/ˌʌn.əkˈsep.tə.bəl/us
/ˌʌn.əkˈsep.t̬ə.bəl/
too bad to be accepted, approved of, or allowed ...
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level
noun[C]
uk
/ˈlev.əl/us
/ˈlev.əl/
the height ...
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(Definition ofunacceptableandlevelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In many systems false acceptances can only be rejected at the price of increasing the false rejections to anunacceptableleveland vice-versa.
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Most gene banks maintain viable seeds that are regenerated when germination decreases to anunacceptablelevel.
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The currentlyunacceptablelevelof inter-regional and interoccupational labour immobility would also diminish, provided access to land no longer depended on cultivating it or even rural residence.
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That money might be clawed back through the tax system, but such a system would put many people back into anunacceptablelevelof poverty.
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So my remarks are directed in the earnest hope that the rate will be set at a realistic and not anunacceptablelevel.
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The continuousunacceptablelevelof educational achievement remains abysmal and must be addressed.
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One outcome of this has been the identification of anunacceptablelevelof false alerts.
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We are seeing damage to the stocks, low spawning stocks and anunacceptablelevelof discards.
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For too long now we have seen a relaxation of standards, which has led to anunacceptablelevelof crime.
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However, my information is that we are losing pilots and navigators at anunacceptablelevel.
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That is a whollyunacceptablelevelof attrition in any criminal justice system.
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It is defined as the capacity to inflict upon one's adversary anunacceptablelevelof damage.
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If they are not replaced, the backlog, delays and inefficiencies that will affect court hearings will rise to anunacceptablelevel.
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The problem with latent defects is that there remains anunacceptablelevelof defective work and "no-fault insurance" will do nothing to reduce that level.
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Our failure to agree tyre safety standards creates anunacceptablelevelof uncertainty with regard to this vital question.
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They have said that unemployment is unendurable, that it is at anunacceptableleveland that we must do something about it.
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I believe that would have been fatal for the consumers of this country and the price would have jumped suddenly to anunacceptablelevel.
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That is anunacceptablelevelto be threatened in so short a time.
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There is anunacceptablelevelof accidents among employees of cowboy builders.
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We now know that, without an entirelyunacceptablelevelof unemployment, we cannot get an effect on the rise in prices in that way.
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