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structure
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + structure
social/political/economic structure
• Many changes had taken place in the social and political structure of the island.
class structure
(= the way society is organized according to people’s education, jobs, income etc )
• Britain had a very rigid class structure.
power structure
(= the way in which the group of people who control a country or organization are organized )
• He was a critic of the country’s power structure.
management structure
(= the way managers of a business are organized )
• Reform of the management structure was needed.
career structure
(= the way a profession is organized which allows you to move up and get better jobs )
• Teachers now have a proper career structure.
basic structure
• These genes are involved in determining the basic structure of cells.
internal structure
• Scientists have been investigating the internal structure of the planet Mars.
molecular structure
• The book tells of the race to find the molecular structure of DNA.
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noun ADJ. basic, simple | complex, elaborate | coherent, logical | rigid, stable | flimsy The flimsy structure of the vehicle could not withstand even mild impacts. | formal | internal | solid, three-dimensional | anatomical, body, bone, skeletal/skeleton | atomic, cell/cellular, chemical, molecular | grammatical, language, linguistic, sentence, syntactic | administrative, bureaucratic, committee, control, corporate, hierarchical, institutional, management, organizational, power, etc. | economic, financial, political, social, etc. the social structure of the village | democratic, federal, etc. | class | family, household | pay, price, salary, tax, wage | career VERB + STRUCTURE have | lack The job lacked a basic career structure. | be based on | create, devise, establish to devise a new management structure | impose STRUCTURE + VERB be based on sth PREP. of a … ~ The cell walls of plants are of a fairly rigid structure. | … in ~ The building is very simple in structure. | in a/the ~ There are weaknesses in the structure of the organization. | ~ in/within the salary structure in the firm PHRASES a change in structure, a change in/to the structure significant changes in the power structure | a lack of structure The novel suffers from a lack of structure., verb ADV. beautifully, carefully, clearly, neatly, properly, well She had structured her arguments very carefully. | badly | loosely a very loosely structured organization | rigidly, tightly | hierarchically, logically PREP. according to the idea that living organisms had been structured according to a divine plan | around The teaching is structured around three topics. | into The company is structured into two divisions. PHRASES highly structured a complex but highly structured complaints procedure
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