There is a growing realization that we must manage the Earth’s resources more carefully.realizationre‧a‧li‧za‧tion (also realisation British English) /ˌrɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən $ -lə-/ ●○○ noun [singular, uncountable] 
I was shocked by the realization of what I had done.realization that the realization that she might never recover from her illness There is a growing realization that we must manage the Earth’s resources more carefully.2 formal when you achieve something that you had planned or hoped for SYN achievementrealization of the realization of his dreams3 technical when you change something into money by selling it: the realization of assets
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- But they can also be seen as communicatively motivated, the realization of available resources to get a message across.
- Classical elite theorists had sought to show that liberal democracy was a utopian ideal incapable of realization.
- It was fabulous, gorgeous in its excess, the ultimate realization of some untrammeled private fantasy.
- Large-scale expectations may depend for their realization on changes in society and its value patterns.
- Nothing is more exhilarating than the realization that you can make money by doing work that you love.
- That is the same life-changing realization that Shamsiddeen and other hajji say they found in Mecca.
- What Simmel accomplishes is a realization of the inseparability of the positive and negative consequences of these social transformations.
- When you have parity of power, that promotes understanding and the realization that all employees are interdependent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY There is a growing realization that we must manage the Earth’s resources more carefully.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The statement was a belated acknowledgement that the project had not been a success.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
There is a growing realization that we must manage the Earth’s resources more carefully. The statement was a belated acknowledgement that the project had not been a success.· In short, rationality is a condition of the full realization of the meaning of higher education.· Here at last she had achieved the full, joyous realization of her ideas of Niagara.
· This was attributed to a growing realization of the extent of the economic malaise and the need for painful measures.
· Instances of the second more sudden realization are rarer.· She looked up with the sudden realization that he was a head taller than she was.· A slight chuckle escaped from her throat, the result of a sudden realization that she was thinking in terms of cotton.· Then sudden realization that it would not stop.· His mind could not take in all the implications of this sudden realization.
VERB· Real understanding comes with the realization that a spacecraft can not remain in orbit unless the force of gravity is acting.· And right then I came to a realization: 1 am Mr Hartmann.· When we are honest, we come to the humbling realization that in each abuser is a piece of us.· I have come to the realization that life is unjust in many ways.· As she continued her oratorical massacre, he came to a sober realization.· How had the managers come to this realization?
· The need for analogue computers will grow with the realization that whole new fields will be opened up by evolutionary computing.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Because then it was that she knew, with blinding clarity, what had been there for some time now.
- It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child.
WORD FAMILYnounrealismrealistrealityunrealityrealizationadjectiverealunrealrealistic ≠ unrealisticadverbrealreallyrealistically ≠ unrealisticallyverbrealize
1when you understand something that you had not understood beforerealization of I was shocked by the realization of what I had done.realization that the realization that she might never recover from her illness There is a growing realization that we must manage the Earth’s resources more carefully.2 formal when you achieve something that you had planned or hoped for SYN achievementrealization of the realization of his dreams3 technical when you change something into money by selling it: the realization of assets- Porter, Cole
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