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think twice collapse: consider and reconsider carefully; "Think twice before you have a child"

average collapse: a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes"; lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"; around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers"; approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall"; lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"; compute the average of; achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C"; amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"

enter collapse: become a participant; be involved in; "enter a race"; "enter an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter negotiations"; come on stage; to come or go into; "the boat entered an area of shallow marshes"

common sense collapse: sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

standardize collapse: cause to conform to standard or norm; "The weights and measures were standardized"; evaluate by comparing with a standard

unestablished collapse: not established; "a reputation as yet unestablished"

judiciously collapse: in a judicious manner; "let's use these intelligence tests judiciously"

normalize collapse: make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard; "normalize relations with China"; "normalize the temperature"; "normalize the spelling"; become normal or return to its normal state; "Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon"

routinely collapse: according to routine or established practice; "he routinely parked in a no-parking zone"

regularize collapse: make regular or more regular; "regularize the heart beat with a pace maker"

weigh collapse: to be oppressive or burdensome; "weigh heavily on the mind", "Something pressed on his mind"; determine the weight of; "The butcher weighed the chicken"; have a certain weight

neutralize collapse: make chemically neutral; "She neutralized the solution"; make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"; make incapable of military action; get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"; make politically neutral and thus inoffensive; "The treaty neutralized the small republic"

improvised collapse: done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer"

capitalization collapse: the sale of capital stock; the act of capitalizing on an opportunity; an estimation of the value of a business; writing in capital letters

bankbook collapse: a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks

balance sheet collapse: a record of the financial situation of an institution on a particular date by listing its assets and the claims against those assets

in the long run collapse: after a very lengthy period of time; "she will succeed in the long run"

ballast collapse: any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship; an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps; an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings; coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads; make steady with a ballast

scale collapse: a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals; an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks; a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass; (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave); a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin; a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin; relative magnitude; "they entertained on a grand scale"; the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it; "the scale of the map"; "the scale of the model"; an ordered reference standard; "judging on a scale of 1 to 10"; size or measure according to a scale; "This model must be scaled down"; measure with or as if with scales; "scale the gold"; remove the scales from; "scale fish"; pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard; climb up by means of a ladder; reach the highest point of; "We scaled the Mont Blanc"; take by attacking with scaling ladders; "The troops scaled the walls of the fort"; measure by or as if by a scale; "This bike scales only 25 pounds"

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