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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.
                        
                        
 
                        
                            Oxford Collocations Dictionary