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concrete
nouns
concrete evidence
• First, the police must have concrete evidence of an offence.
a concrete example
• I can illustrate this point with a concrete example.
a concrete proposal
• People talked a lot but made few concrete proposals.
concrete results
• The negotiations failed to achieve any concrete results.
concrete action
• In order to solve this problem, the government must take concrete action.
(a) concrete form
• A society's culture is expressed in a concrete form in the arts.
phrases
in concrete terms
• Let me explain what I mean in more concrete terms.
take concrete steps to do something
• The country has to take concrete steps to end the violence.
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noun ADJ. solid | bare a floor made of bare concrete | wet | pre-cast, ready-mix/ready-mixed, reinforced QUANT. layer, slab VERB + CONCRETE mix | lay, pour | be made from/(out) of | set sth in The pathway is formed from large pebbles set in concrete. (figurative) I do not regard the constitution of the United Kingdom as set in concrete. CONCRETE + VERB set Before the concrete sets the surface can be given a final smoothing over.
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