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"LINKAGES" is a plural of: linkage. |
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Economics | The ability of one industry to induce the establishment and growth of other industries. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | The tendency of two or more genes in the same chromosome to remain together from one generation to the next more frequently than expected according to the law of independent assortment. (references) |
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Health | Unfortunately, HCBC often is "piecework and patchwork" (Kane and Kane, 1987) and characterized by inaccessibility, poor care, unskilled personnel, high out-of-pocket costs, and inadequate linkages to other services, rather than a comprehensive array of services. (references) | |
This project also aimed to address the learning needs of administrators and staff in these residential settings and related social agencies in order to ensure the safety and well-being of residents with AD, and provide necessary linkages to informal and formal services. (references) | ||
There are many other obstacles in the way of patients receiving the care they need. There is the lack of linkages between the health care, mental health, and social service systems and the diversity of the professionals staffing these systems--primary care physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, pastoral counselors, etc. There also is the complexity of the systems, with different gates to service, eligibility requirements, funding streams, and methods of payment. (references) | ||
Business | The SOEs have close linkages to the banking system through policy loans that create constraints on the pace of financial market reforms. (references) | |
The SDI is encouraging linkages between tourism and other sectors, including agriculture, particularly in the areas of services, cultural tourism, agribusiness, building and construction, light manufacturing, and crafts production. (references) | ||
The Korean government has also tried to break the unhealthy linkages between government, banks, and the chaebols which impeded competition and market access, both in Korea and in other markets, and resulted in excessive debt, over-capacity and uneconomic investments. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ireland | Grant aid is largely tied to job creation and linkages with the local economy. (references) |
Pakistan | Historically, Pakistan has had close geopolitical and cultural-religious linkages with Iran. (references) | |
Angola | Oil production remains largely offshore and has few linkages with other sectors of the economy. (references) | |
Minorities | Nigeria | Traditional linkages continued to impose considerable pressure on individual government officials to favor their own ethnic groups for important positions and patronage. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "LINKAGES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 95.43% of the time. "LINKAGES" is used about 175 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 95.43% | 167 | 24,143 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 4.57% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 175 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "LINKAGES": Road transport and intermodal linkages research programme. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "LINKAGES": linkages--usually. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LINKAGES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | markedssammenfletning (interrelations of markets, market interrelations). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | linkages (interrelations of markets, market interrelations). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | relations interindustrielles, interpénétration des marchés, interdépendance des marchés, enchevêtrements du marché. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Marktverflechtung (interrelations of markets, market interrelations). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | αλληλεξάρτηση των αγορών (interrelations of markets, market interrelations). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | concatenazioni infraindustriali (interrelations of markets, market interrelations). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | inkageslay sammankopplingar. (various references) | ||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LINKAGES" (pronounced li"ngkujuz) |
| 5 | -k u j u z | packages. |
| 4 | -u j u z | cabbages, cartridges, damages, dosages, forages, images, languages, messages, mortgages, passages, plumages, privileges, savages, shortages, tonnages, usages, voltages, voyages. |
| 3 | -j u z | acknowledges, advantages, ages, alleges, appendages, arranges, arrearages, averages, badges, bandages, barges, beverages, binges, blockages, bridges, brokerages, bulges, cages, carriages, centrifuges, challenges, changes, charges, colleges, cottages, countercharges, coverages, cringes, dinges, disadvantages, discharges, discourages, diverges, dodges, dredges, edges, emerges, encourages, engages, enlarges, envisages, exchanges, flanges, Forges, fringes, fuselages, gauges, gorges, granges, grudges, hedges, heritages, hinges, hostages, impinges, indulges, infringes, interchanges, judges, ledges, lineages, lodges, loges, lounges, lozenges, lunges, macrophages, mages, maharajahs, manages, manges, marriages, merges, midges, miscarriages, mischarges, misjudges, mismanages, ninjas, nudges, obliges, oranges, orphanages, outages, outrages, overcharges, pages, partridges, percentages, pilgrimages, pillages, pledges, plunges, porterages, presages, purges, rages, rampages, ranges, ravages, refuges, repackages, ridges, sages, sausages, scourges, sieges, sponges, stages, stockbrokerages, stooges, stoppages, surcharges, surges, syringes, trudges, urges, vantages, verges, vestiges, villages, vintages, wages, wantages, wedges. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: snaglike. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-k-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: alkines, lakings, leaking, leasing, linages, linkage, sealing, sinkage, slaking. | |
-2 letters: algins, aliens, aligns, alines, alkies, alkine, alsike, angels, angles, ankles, asking, easing, elains, gaskin, genial, gleans, ingles, inkles, kiangs, kinase, laking, lasing, lianes, liangs, ligans, ligase, likens, linage, lingas, saline, signal, silage, silane, silken, single. | |
-3 letters: aegis, agile, aisle, algin, alien, align, alike. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-k-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: weaklings. | |
+2 letters: gavelkinds, slackening, sneakingly. | |
+3 letters: blackenings, glucokinase, lovemakings, shellacking, skedaddling, steelmaking. | |
+4 letters: glucokinases, lawbreakings, linebackings, nightwalkers, platemakings, racewalkings, shellackings, sleepwalking, spacewalking, steelmakings. | |
+5 letters: metalworkings, streetwalking. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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