Crossword clues for reasonable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reasonable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/close/reasonable approximation
a reasonable precaution
▪ You must take all reasonable precautions to safeguard official property.
a reasonable request
▪ It seemed like a reasonable request.
a reasonable/plausible excuse (=one that other people will believe)
▪ If your train was cancelled, that is a perfectly reasonable excuse.
a reasonable/plausible explanation (=one that is easy to believe)
▪ Pilot error is the most plausible explanation for the crash.
a reasonable/valid assumption
▪ This seemed like a reasonable assumption.
an acceptable/reasonable/satisfactory compromise
▪ By 1982 an acceptable compromise had been reached.
get a good/reasonable etc price (=be paid a particular amount for something)
▪ Farmers now get a decent price for their crop.
it is reasonable/unreasonable to expect sth
▪ It’s unreasonable to expect a tenant to pay for repairs to the outside of the house.
it is/seems reasonable to assume (that)
▪ It seems reasonable to assume that the book was written around 70 AD.
it seems likely/unlikely/reasonable/clear (that)
▪ It seems likely that he will miss Ireland’s next match.
reasonable expectations (=the expectation that something will probably be successful, but may not be)
▪ It is a difficult operation, but we have reasonable expectations of success.
reasonable grounds
▪ Did the police have reasonable grounds to arrest him?
reasonable notice (=an amount that is considered to be fair to everyone)
▪ Did you receive reasonable notice of the court case?
reasonable steps
▪ They must take reasonable steps to ensure that this information is available to those who might benefit.
reasonable (=not too high)
▪ The price was reasonable for such good food.
relative/reasonable harmony (=quite friendly and peaceful when compared to something else)
▪ The tribes have lived together in relative harmony for years.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ A more reasonable figure is given by comparing distortion with total power, i.e. with fundamental plus distortion.
▪ A more reasonable view is that the law of demand is just fine, and the CardKrueger empirical analysis needs repairs.
▪ The older ones were more maternal, and far more reasonable on the whole, with exceptions.
▪ Please think about these things in a more reasonable mood, shaking off the excess melodrama as you proceed.
▪ The aim is thus to re-examine traditional questions of macroeconomics within a more reasonable specification of intertemporal optimisation.
▪ There are times when to quit is more reasonable and decent and hanging on is a disgrace.
▪ But if your business pays generous salaries to its other employees, your salary will look more reasonable.
perfectly
▪ It would be perfectly reasonable for the police to check their address and details such as car ownership on the computer.
▪ These are perfectly reasonable questions, after all, you will be paying the bills.
▪ Tinfoil Barbs would be perfectly reasonable.
▪ She said the news clippings she sent to friends were a perfectly reasonable way to correspond.
▪ Whatever the cause of the delay, the solicitor should answer your perfectly reasonable request for an explanation.
▪ I could be perfectly reasonable up to a point, but Cynthia Kay had gone too far.
▪ It would be perfectly reasonable to keep them all in the same genus.
▪ To my mind, it was an unreasonable expectation, but to theirs, it was only natural and perfectly reasonable.
quite
▪ The first assumption seems quite reasonable.
▪ Of course to see these studies as specialist, in a working and practical sense, is quite reasonable.
▪ In that context it is quite reasonable to expect that Baltimore can grow at a heady rate.
▪ Secondary double glazing is quite reasonable in price and is fairly easily fitted.
▪ The inside was crusty-free and the T-shirts were £7, which seems quite reasonable.
▪ At first sight it might be quite reasonable for the Labour party to employ the same approach to its political strategy.
▪ Although usually quite reasonable priced, the cost of using them tots up to a considerable amount over several days.
very
▪ It is usually very good and usually very reasonable.
▪ It was a cheap and easy way of murdering your wife, thought Henry. Very reasonable.
▪ A number had decided to model themselves on the behaviors and demeanor of a favorite boss or company hero-a very reasonable strategy.
▪ Very reasonable. Very reasonable indeed.
▪ Here is one possible answer to that very reasonable question.
▪ I may seem very reasonable at the moment, but I don't feel it.
▪ They can't make any profit out of us as they charge us a very reasonable rate.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ If the interview goes well there should be a reasonable amount of give and take of information throughout.
▪ Toy problems may converge in a reasonable amount of time; real problems may magnify the task beyond reasonable limits.
▪ Seats are comfortable and supportive and there is a reasonable amount of room in the rear seats.
▪ This contract would specify what reasonable amount of progress is deserving of reward.
▪ Despite a slow start there was soon a reasonable amount of activity as students came in for their lunches.
▪ The right to notice extends also to giving the individual a reasonable amount of time in which to prepare his case.
▪ Until recently, I was just amazed that I was doing this with a reasonable amount of success.
▪ Of course it is necessary for the prospective student to possess a reasonable amount of intelligence as well as a genuine desire to help others.
approximation
▪ There are reasonable approximations of bicarbonate and alkali secretion for each subject on separate occasions.
▪ In the absence of such precision, reasonable approximations may be considered.
▪ Therefore, as a reasonable approximation, you can neglect the extra oxygen that plants consume at night.
▪ Some of the errors introduced will cancel one another out and the answer we get will still be a reasonable approximation.
▪ This is acceptable only if it can be demonstrated that the method gives a reasonable approximation of the actual cost.
assumption
▪ For the most part this is a reasonable assumption to make.
▪ It is a reasonable assumption that improvements can be made even to the best of schools.
▪ Given a few reasonable assumptions about f, it is guaranteed to find a best path from the start to a goal.
▪ The error lay in a very simple but quite reasonable assumption which everyone made.
care
▪ Employees have a duty to take reasonable care in the performance of their duties.
▪ If a teacher fails to exercise reasonable care to protect his or her students from injury, the teacher is negligent.
▪ You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour.
▪ If teachers do not use reasonable care, there is a breach of duty, and they are negligent.
▪ Employees are themselves under a duty to take reasonable care not to injure others in the course of their work.
▪ The duty in the law of negligence is not a duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid risk of causing injury.
▪ But if Clarence had exercised reasonable care, the court would have to decide whether the Trust were at fault.
▪ There is an implied duty upon partners to exercise reasonable care in the performance of their duties under the agreement.
cause
▪ He would then have reasonable cause to believe that an offence had been committed.
▪ Any person who without reasonable cause fails to comply may be sent to prison for not more than six months.
▪ Potts J. dismissed the defendants' application to strike out the statement of claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action.
▪ We will legislate to bring into use dwellings left empty without reasonable cause for more than a year.
▪ It disclosed no reasonable cause of action and was frivolous and vexatious.
chance
▪ However, some rugs will almost certainly increase in value, and others stand a reasonable chance of at least keeping their value.
▪ One way of ensuring that locals have a reasonable chance of winning is to slightly bias just a few of the questions.
▪ He did not feel secure of even a reasonable chance.
▪ In other public utilities, there was a reasonable chance of some benefit from privatisation.
▪ Reconciliation Is there a reasonable chance that you and your husband or wife can settle your differences and resume normal married life?
▪ Both were reckoned to have a reasonable chance of success.
▪ The standard rule is: delegate to the lowest level possible, compatible with a reasonable chance of a successful outcome.
cost
▪ They are at a reasonable cost of £1 for 6.
▪ Others insist that highway operators must provide universal access at reasonable cost.
▪ Agents maximize, and part of the maximization procedure is the efficient use of all information available at reasonable cost.
▪ In such cases, it is customary for the Crown to bear all reasonable costs run up by defendants.
▪ An extended warranty can provide peace of mind at reasonable cost.
▪ It is claimed that such systems satisfy heating requirements at a reasonable cost.
▪ In return, citizens are entitled to expect high-quality services which are responsive to their needs and provided efficiently at reasonable cost.
▪ This includes profits taken by the defendant during his occupation and damages for deterioration and the reasonable costs of getting possession.
degree
▪ Nevertheless, once the period of court mourning was over, Così was revived with a reasonable degree of success.
▪ In short, I'd never actually rowed to any reasonable degree in my life.
▪ For example, one can prove beyond a reasonable degree of doubt that a conservation project reduces the rate of soil removal.
▪ The remaining one-third of Pomeranian farmers had rather larger self-supporting farms and enjoyed a reasonable degree of comfort.
▪ The rock is a very compact andesite lava, generally sound, with a reasonable degree of friction.
▪ When a reasonable degree of orderliness appears, the arrangements can be made more complex.
doubt
▪ If we knew that, I think we'd be beyond reasonable doubt.
▪ They had to feel, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Bill had killed Sandy.
▪ The Edwardian display cases containing apparatus whereby Boyle's Law could be proven beyond all reasonable doubt, veritably twinkled.
▪ It means only that prosecutors failed to prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, he said.
▪ Civilised society generally only convicts where a man is guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
▪ This is balance of probability rather than the criminal law standard beyond reasonable doubt.
▪ Criminal prosecution, requiring proof beyond reasonable doubt, is one legal contribution to child protection.
excuse
▪ The driver refused and was in due course convicted by justices of failing to provide a specimen without reasonable excuse.
▪ There is, it should be noted, no exception for reasonable excuse in this section.
▪ A player without a reasonable excuse should be barred from entering the competition the following year.
▪ A refusal to answer questions for example, could, in the absence of reasonable excuse, amount to contempt of court.
▪ Note: Failure without reasonable excuse to comply with these requirements is a criminal offence.
expectation
▪ Sometimes when we project into the future we have a reasonable expectation, based on experience, of what will happen.
▪ Maybe 5-6 was a reasonable expectation.
▪ The need would be to show, against reasonable expectation, that the second did not divert attention from the first.
▪ People have a right to a reasonable expectation of privacy in cellular as in other forms of telephonic conversation.
▪ A profit of £30-50 a session is a reasonable expectation.
▪ Thus a reasonable expectation for the strength of a material would be: which could hardly be much simpler.
explanation
▪ You're not stupid and you know what you saw but she may have some other reasonable explanation.
▪ For a majority of things, reasonable explanations have been provided.
▪ Now he had vanished with no reasonable explanation whatever.
▪ He could give no reasonable explanation.
▪ A policeman had suspected them for loitering about, they wouldn't give a reasonable explanation or account of themselves.
level
▪ Imported will still be arriving though to keep supplies at a reasonable level.
▪ They have not pumped up taxes; personal and corporate income taxes have remained at reasonable levels.
▪ However, much more information can be obtained if we have a reasonable level of understanding of this physical basis.
▪ You can see that there are plenty of reasons to maintain a reasonable level of exercise.
▪ And how can you guarantee a reasonable level of support in case something does go horribly wrong?
▪ Any payments above a reasonable level will be taxed.
▪ It involved a mixture of tasks and required a reasonable level of skill.
▪ Prices have dropped to a reasonable level, and we have buyers competing for them, with gazumping going on.
man
▪ Jaubert had been a reasonable man to work for, had never asked her to do anything illegal or distasteful.
▪ That choice would be made by Cardinal Hickey, whom Jim regarded as a more moderate and reasonable man.
▪ Second, the jury must decide whether the provocation was enough to make a reasonable man do as D did.
▪ Perhaps his reputation as a reasonable man?
▪ It matters not that a reasonable man would have known the information to be so.
▪ A reasonable man might think it a proper measure on the score of health.
▪ His mouth hung open in a half smile that was supposed to convince the judge that he was a reasonable man.
notice
▪ He could therefore revive his right by giving reasonable notice.
▪ This allows the artist to look at the manager's books, with reasonable notice.
▪ The test of reasonable notice is objective.
people
▪ The Websters were decent, reasonable people.
▪ Again, these changes were long overdue and were welcomed by all reasonable people and organizations.
▪ Surely, five hundred years of argument have convinced most reasonable people of the vacuity of this debate.
▪ I think most reasonable people will stipulate that this field is mined with them.
▪ Rationality is not just a matter for individuals as individuals becoming reasonable people.
period
▪ As to the duration of the restrictions, what constitutes a reasonable period depends largely on the nature of the business sold.
▪ That must be done within a reasonable period.
▪ The retention of such money by the landlord after a reasonable period of time is not unfair.
▪ Within a reasonable period after the end of the year covered by the accounts, those accounts may have a dominant role.
▪ Alternatively, or in addition, the manager's performance may be assessed against some criteria after a reasonable period has elapsed.
▪ The draftsman of the precedent suggests the substitutionwithin a reasonable period for 2 months which seems a fair compromise.
person
▪ What must be ascertained is the intention that a reasonable person would have had if placed in the situation of the parties.
▪ As in many other areas of the law, the standard applied is what the reasonable person would believe under similar circumstances.
▪ In Dawson it was held that a reasonable person robbing a petrol station would not know of the attendant's bad heart.
▪ Given the context, a reasonable person could only conclude that the threat of judicial power was plainly implied.
▪ Whether the act was dangerous was to be judged by what the reasonable person would have appreciated.
▪ But in this case, enough variations on the simple alternatives exist to drive a reasonable person to distraction.
▪ Bond language will also have to be specific and clear enough that a reasonable person can understand it.
precaution
▪ Since the defendants had therefore not taken all reasonable precautions, they had no defence.
▪ All reasonable precautions are taken to ensure that the advice and data given to readers is reliable.
▪ Given reasonable precautions and a small amount of money, cholera can be effectively fought.
▪ It was no defence that the sellers had taken all reasonable precautions as to hygiene.
▪ Please therefore take all reasonable precautions to protect yourself and your family whilst on holiday.
price
▪ He also insisted that any private bidders must prove that they are capable of providing better facilities at a reasonable price.
▪ Are they quality products sold at a reasonable price with a money-back guarantee?
▪ The Baldry Restaurant serves good food at a reasonable price and the Rowan Tree is good for vegetarian food.
▪ Converted whisky barrels like these can be bought at a reasonable price in most parts of the country.
▪ But it was a reminder the supply of agricultural commodities at reasonable prices could not be guaranteed in the short-term.
▪ This may seem like bad news for the auctioneers and sellers, but for buyers many pristine aircraft sold at reasonable prices.
▪ A good idea at a reasonable price.
standard
▪ They were mostly from Hargeisa, townspeople with a reasonable standard of living.
▪ Set reasonable standards for your body.
▪ We must also try to ensure we get people capable of doing specific jobs to a reasonable standard.
▪ He will not expect miracles, only a reasonable standard of proficiency.
▪ When the link between average earnings and the pension ended, so too did their hopes of a reasonable standard of living.
▪ Even homeless people have a right to expect a reasonable standard of accomodation.
▪ This is an intolerable situation and society has to remove those who will not conform to reasonable standards of behaviour.
▪ Duties of employees Employees must work to a reasonable standard, for the hours agreed.
time
▪ A licence has to be obtained and a deposit paid in advance to cover charges for a reasonable time.
▪ If you meet either one of them, you pass the reasonable time rule of the return requirement: 1.
▪ She had not specified, but somewhere around four thirty to five would have been a reasonable time to return.
▪ Usually, the supplier would have a right and a duty to correct the errors within a reasonable time.
▪ An application for relief may be filed only within a reasonable time after the defendant has knowledge of the judgment.
▪ This allows a reasonable time for processing, and results in fewer lost revolutions than is normally possible.
▪ A solicitor fails to draw up a will within a reasonable time for a client who subsequently dies.
▪ They must also continue to be so for a reasonable time after delivery.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A reasonable number of people turned up for the meeting.
▪ Be reasonable, Paul - I'm only trying to help.
▪ Campaigners say that there is no reasonable objection to women becoming priests.
▪ Cole accepted that Moe's views were reasonable and valid.
▪ Do you think it's reasonable to expect people to work more than 60 hours a week?
▪ Given that the patient smokes 50 cigarette a day, it would be reasonable to assume there is some lung damage.
▪ good quality furniture at reasonable prices
▪ I'll go along with any reasonable plan.
▪ I thought her request for more information was reasonable, but it was refused.
▪ It's reasonable to assume that most prices will go up again.
▪ It is reasonable that a prospective employer should want to know if someone has a criminal record.
▪ It is reasonable to assume watching a lot of television at an early age interferes with development.
▪ It is reasonable to expect members to pay a small fee.
▪ It is a reasonable assumption that she knew him well, as she had the keys to his house.
▪ Let's try and discuss this in a calm and reasonable way.
▪ Mason is a reasonable man.
▪ Most of her work is of a reasonable standard.
▪ Only £15 a night? That sounds reasonable.
▪ She's usually very reasonable as a boss, but now and again her temper flares up.
▪ Teachers need a reasonable amount of time to prepare course work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Companies should be allowed to use reasonable bandwidth to market their products.
▪ Falling interest rates make it even more important for investors to check that they are getting a reasonable return from their funds.
▪ Had she wanted it, the Loreto Order would certainly have given her a reasonable sum to cover her expenses.
▪ Here and there the stuffing bulged, but for the most part it was in reasonable shape.
▪ It guaranteed prices which were, from a retail point of view, very reasonable indeed.
▪ It would be expected of him, he said, which to her seemed reasonable.
▪ They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reasonable
Reasonable \Rea"son*a*ble\ (r[=e]"z'n*[.a]*b'l), a. [OE. resonable, F. raisonnable, fr. L. rationabilis. See Reason, n.]
Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.
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Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men.
By indubitable certainty, I mean that which doth not admit of any reasonable cause of doubting.
--Bp. Wilkins.Men have no right to what is not reasonable.
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Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper; as, a reasonable demand, amount, price.
Let . . . all things be thought upon That may, with reasonable swiftness, add More feathers to our wings.
--Shak.Syn: Rational; just; honest; equitable; fair; suitable; moderate; tolerable. See Rational.
Reasonable
Reasonable \Rea"son*a*ble\, adv. Reasonably; tolerably. [Obs.]
I have a reasonable good ear in music.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reasonable
c.1300, "having sound judgment, sane, rational," from Old French raisonable, from Latin rationabilis, from ratio (see reason (n.)).What the majority of people consider to be 'reasonable' is that about which there is agreement, if not among all, at least among a substantial number of people; 'reasonable' for most people, has nothing to do with reason, but with consensus. [Erich Fromm, "The Heart of Man," 1968]Meaning "moderate in price" is recorded from 1660s. Related: Reasonably.
Wiktionary
reasonable
a. 1 Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational. 2 just; fair; agreeable to reason.
WordNet
reasonable
adj. showing reason or sound judgment; "a sensible choice"; "a sensible person" [syn: sensible] [ant: unreasonable]
not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices" [syn: fair, fairish]
marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy" [syn: sane]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "reasonable".
The employed must recognize the necessity of an accumulated fund of capital, and on the other hand the employer must be as anxious to have about him a contented, prosperous community, as to heap up money beyond any reasonable use for it.
Marquis de Montespan, not to annul and revoke the judicial and legal separation which exists, but to inform him of your return to reasonable ideas, and of your resolve to be reconciled with the public.
High Architect, Harrah Ivi en li Ede, is an exceptionally reasonable woman.
And so it seems reasonable to accept the tale not for its precise interpretation of art and architectural history but for its broad details: Filippo and Donatello probably did go to Rome around 1403 and they may have stayed as late as the summer of 1404.
Again, it was reasonable to mention flesh, which, as being farther away from the Word, was less assumable, as it would seem.
Anyone could apply for an apprenticeship and stand a reasonable chance of being accepted, virtually every apprentice became a wizard, and all wizards were accepted as equals, regardless of whether they had been born to princes, peasants, or even other wizards.
When the amount of sulphur present is not known within reasonable limits, the test portions may be tried with a drop of baric chloride solution instead of sulphuric acid, so that the diminishing quantity of precipitate may give warning of an approach to the finishing point.
Congress with reasonable promptness passed the bill in both Houses for the admission of Colorado, though it was opposed by the more radical class of Republicans because negroes were excluded from the right of suffrage.
Fiat experimentum in corpore vili is a just rule where there is any reasonable presumption of benefit to arise on a large scale.
When and if this day arrives, State statutes and judicial decisions will be given such extraterritorial operation as seems reasonable to the Court to give them.
His identity as a reasonable, cleanly user of language blurs the boundary between Houyhnhnm and Yahoo on which Houyhnhnm culture depends.
It seems reasonable to me to assume that Malchus, having experienced all this -- especially the healing of his ear -- may well have become a follower of Yeshua himself.
It is, at any rate, reasonable to suppose that, as Indian corn belongs to the same botanical order as wheat, barley, oats, rye, timothy, and other grasses, the general manurial requirements would be the same.
A very reasonable way to compute the term, is to reckon three months back from the day when the menses ceased and then add five days to that time, which will be the date of the expected time of confinement.
As this detention was occasioned by an obvious misapprehension of the facts, and as justice requires that we should commit no belligerent act not founded in strict right as sanctioned by public law, I recommend that an appropriation be made to satisfy the reasonable demand of the owners of the vessel for her detention.