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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
applicable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ The interpretation of the expression given in this abstract is also applicable to these cases. 9.
▪ The methodologies are also applicable to existing operations and to rehabilitation or expansion projects.
▪ The five yield grades for lamb are also applicable to yearling mutton and mutton.
▪ The difficulties associated with questionnaires are usually also applicable to rating scales.
as
▪ Egan's four-stage problem management model, so essential in basic training, is also regarded as applicable to management problems.
▪ I regard these observations as applicable to the position of a self-regulating organisation.
▪ It would thus have been as applicable to a teacher, for example, as to a practitioner of any manual skill.
directly
▪ A Regulation is binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all member states.
▪ However many of the considerations which apply to small utility boilers are directly applicable to large industrial boilers.
▪ The Rules of Conduct cover the totality of a registrant's conduct, but several are directly applicable to risk issues.
▪ Fortunately, many of the considerations applicable to smaller utility boilers are directly applicable to large industrial boilers.
▪ Much of the £1 million spent annually on hovercraft research and development over recent years is also directly applicable to the AP1-88.
▪ This technique is only directly applicable to fixed-length records.
▪ It shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
equally
▪ Whatever the answers to the previous questions, are they equally applicable to every level of linguistic analysis?
▪ Again, a Rule 72 Transfer is equally applicable as between a leasehold or freehold property.
▪ Ralph Gibson L.J.'s observations seem equally applicable to libel.
▪ It is an interpretation found equally applicable to developing capitalist states where indigenous bourgeoisies are yet to develop fully.
▪ These observations are in my view equally applicable to the revenue and to sums by way of principal or interest retained by them.
▪ These are useful lessons which should be equally applicable to future attempts at securing organisational improvements through computerisation.
▪ The principles are equally applicable in many other therapeutic situations, not just those involving patients who have taken overdoses.
▪ This concept may be equally applicable in other sectors, such as services and information-ultimately producing more leisure time.
generally
▪ Other, generally applicable subdivisions, are shown in a separate list for easy reference.
▪ These are generally applicable and binding in their entirety, and have direct effect upon all member states.
▪ The techniques are more generally applicable to all areas of text recognition.
▪ The second caveat is that this generalization, like most, while generally applicable, is not universally so.
more
▪ Pleasant was a more applicable word, she told herself firmly.
▪ In terms of government legislation, empirical research has indicated that a consensual model is indeed more applicable.
▪ Most of the work and examples seem far more applicable to the former than to the latter.
▪ The second meaning is therefore more applicable and this equates so-called natural behaviour with skilled behaviour.
only
▪ This key is only applicable in scrolled areas.
▪ When talking about the Raiders, the only applicable word is survival.
▪ The methods described and implemented are not only applicable to on-line cursive script recognition.
particularly
▪ Sales promotion activities are particularly applicable to consumer products.
▪ It is particularly applicable where buying can be assessed in the light of the demographic characteristics of shoppers.
universally
▪ No single method, however, is ever going to be universally applicable.
▪ But these improvements demanded massive retooling and capital expenditures, and were not universally applicable.
▪ We concluded that it would be wrong to pick one model as universally applicable.
▪ The scope of their action is fixed by universally applicable criteria.
where
▪ Prices include all transfers, by air where applicable.
▪ Corresponding amounts for preceding years should be restated where applicable.
▪ Accommodation and meal supplements where applicable and shown on the Price List.
▪ The formula is given below and her conclusions where applicable are followed here. 1.
▪ The excess should be deducted from the loss and then payment will be made up to the policy limit where applicable.
▪ After Completion - the solicitor registers the title and pays stamp duty where applicable on your behalf.
▪ It has been agreed that we will deduct the excess from the loss and then pay up to the policy limit where applicable.
▪ Lending includes credit and hire where applicable.
widely
▪ Strengths: Algorithms of this sort are very widely applicable.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ In total the withdrawal rate for some claimants with incomes above the applicable amount is over 80 percent.
▪ This is £20.20 above the £54.80 applicable amount, and 70 percent of this is £14.14.
▪ This adds up to £109.70, some £54.90 above the applicable amount, and 70 percent of that is £38.43.
▪ Their income is higher than their applicable amount.
▪ The applicable amount for a single person aged 60 to 74 is: £53.40. 5.
law
▪ The first is that this is a gap which must be filled by reference to the applicable law under general conflict-of-laws rules.
▪ Use by unauthorized persons is a violation of applicable laws.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Corresponding amounts for preceding years should be restated where applicable.
▪ He had not learned the applicable procedures yet.
▪ However many of the considerations which apply to small utility boilers are directly applicable to large industrial boilers.
▪ No single method, however, is ever going to be universally applicable.
▪ So much then for what may be regarded as general principles, applicable to all.
▪ Though our results need replication, this suggests that our results may be applicable to women attempting to conceive naturally.
▪ Where applicable please do so at once.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Applicable

Applicable \Ap"pli*ca*ble\, a. [Cf. F. aplicable, fr. L. applicare. See Apply.] Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
applicable

1560s, "pliable," with -able + Latin applicare (see apply). Meaning "capable of being applied" is from 1650s; earlier in this sense was appliable (mid-15c.).

Wiktionary
applicable

a. suitable for application, relevant

WordNet
applicable

  1. adj. capable of being applied; having relevance; "gave applicable examples to support her argument"

  2. readily applicable or practical [syn: applicative, applicatory]

Usage examples of "applicable".

Congress States were entitled to enact legislation adapted to the local needs of interstate and foreign commerce, that a pilotage law was of this description, and was, accordingly, constitutionally applicable until Congress acted to the contrary to vessels engaged in the coasting trade.

But in two cases arising under the National Industrial Recovery Act, a policy declaration of comparable generality was held insufficient for the promulgation of rules applicable to all persons engaged in a designated activity, without the procedural safeguards which surround the issuance of individual orders.

In determining what constitutes just compensation for property requisitioned for war purposes during World War II, the Court has assumed that the Fifth Amendment is applicable to such takings.

This would restrict a general term, applicable to many objects, to one of its significations.

Congressional action, a New York City general sales tax was applicable to sales of coal under contracts entered into within the municipality and calling for delivery therein.

The principle of apportionment is, moreover, applicable to the intangible property of a company engaged in both interstate and local commerce, as well as to its tangible property.

In the main, these three holdings have controlled the decision of cases under the above and the following caption, there being generally no applicable act of Congress involved.

International Law exempting unarmed fishing vessels from capture was applicable in the absence of any treaty provision, or other public act of the Government in relation to the subject.

Compensation laws applicable to maritime cases were held unconstitutional.

It ought, on the contrary, to be applicable, as would be the equivalent power in England or France for instance, to aid and support all recognized objectives of government.

No question was raised as to the power of the State to appoint, in any mode its legislature saw fit to adopt, and none that a single method, applicable without exception, must be pursued in the absence of an amendment to the Constitution.

Yet if the President has the power to channel raw materials into the most efficient industrial units and thus save scarce materials from wastage it is difficult to see why the same principle is not applicable to the distribution of fuel oil.

Supreme Court, speaking by Chief Justice Marshall, took notice of a treaty with France, executed after a court of admiralty had entered a final judgment condemning a captured French vessel, and finding it applicable to the situation before it, set the judgment aside and ordered the vessel restored to her owners.

Court held that the federal courts were not bound by the decision of a court of first instance of South Carolina, which was the only decision applicable to the interpretation of the insurance policy in dispute.

This exception is notably applicable to cases where the federal court has taken possession of property which it may protect by injunction from interference by State courts.