applicable to sth/sb This part of the law is only applicable to companies employing more than five people.
In the section headed 'Previous employment', I wrote 'Not applicable'. Compare(Definition of applicable from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Phrenology was supposed to be part of democratic politics; it was to provide a psychology equally applicable to everyone.
The duty of a judge to apply applicable rules would thus be indeterminate-it would obtain in some cases and not in others.
Our findings are likely to be applicable to other conditions where the pathogenesis is unclear and psychosocial factors may contribute.
The type determines the possible modes, and both determine which operations are applicable to this object, and both were indicated by the object's icon.
Since the epidemiology of varicella varies worldwide, adopting foreign prevention policies may not always be applicable.
Moreover, these findings have implications for the development of fluency that could be applicable to adult second language learning, her primary focus of interest.
The latter would obtain whenever the r ule, even though applicable, is defeated by reasons that fell outside its (partially) exclusionar y scope.
Consequently, there is scope for simulation methods to be more generally applicable.Because the grammar rules encapsulate the feasible additions that can be made, the automation is based simply on choosing a series of applicable rules.
However, this explanation is less applicable in geographic regions where genetic mixing occurs. To what extent, if any, are standards applicable to lingua franca contexts?The two appendices cover topics applicable to the whole book - site description and laboratory safety.
Whether this therapy is an applicable one remains to be discussed in the light of ethical and safety issues.
It is also potentially applicable to evaluating other health technologies with socially, medically, and economically challenging features.
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