welcome change

collocation in English

meaningsofwelcomeandchange

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welcome
adjective
uk
/ˈwel.kəm/us
/ˈwel.kəm/
If someone is welcome, you are pleased when they ...
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change
noun
uk
/tʃeɪndʒ/us
/tʃeɪndʒ/
the act of becoming different, or the result of something ...
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(Definition ofwelcomeandchangefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Another reason may be that church members help older people materially and visit them, probably awelcomechangein their dreary existence.
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However, this seeminglywelcomechangeof focus rapidly leads to deception because there is little that is new in this book.
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Vast numbers of penguins were nesting on shore and the men brought back both eggs and penguins, which made awelcomechangeof diet.
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There has been awelcomechangein recent years in the field of dementia care.
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Public relations pronouncements in favor of reform plus abstract economic propositions asserting why organizations ought rationally towelcomechangeare not a substitute for intense coalition building and bargaining.
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Moreover, the graphical setting of the game is awelcomechangefrom the consolebased text interaction that students had become used to throughout the course until then.
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Milosevic's clear, plain and forthright expressions of national triumphalism were, simply, awelcomechangein tone from the doublespeak of the communists.
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I have for med quite a strong impression that awelcomechangeis g radually taking place in the way in which languages-relevant research is being framed.
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Stricter state control over the domestic arena was an increasingly popular legal development through the last twenty years of the nineteenth century, and was in many ways awelcomechange.
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This is awelcomechangefor the better.
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The mostwelcomechangeis that it has become a unit on its own.
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That is awelcomechangealthough, of course, it is no substitute for the abolition of the reduced benefit direction.
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All that shows signs of awelcomechangeof heart in government.
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This is awelcomechangein the direction of ending the discrimination that we have seen against the distributive and commercial sector.
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I am glad that our argument has been heeded and that thatwelcomechangehas been made.
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He made the dismal science seem as light as asouffléit was a verywelcomechange.
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The new lighter touch regulatory environment is awelcomechange, but it remains essentially an orchestrated approach.
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I want also to mention a particularlywelcomechangein the capital gains tax rules as they affect entrepreneurs.
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The new status of restricted byway is awelcomechange, but it does not extend the amount of path available for riding or carriage riding.
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Thatwelcomechange, however, could lead to an unwelcome consequence.
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