multipronged
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6.0
- adjective
- /ˌmʌltiˈprɔŋd/
:
multifacético
- Addressing climate change requires a multipronged approach that includes renewable energy, conservation, and policy reform.
- multipronged approach
- multipronged strategy
- multipronged effort
Examples
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He proposes a multipronged approach, including traditional rainwater harvesting, watershed development, and cropping patterns, combined with transparency to give people a say in resource management.
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Such a cogent agenda will need to be multipronged and transdisciplinary to be successful and, critically, to cut across institutional funders' missions.
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Look for the whole range of them, and imagine a multipronged attack on them.
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The details are being thrashed out in a multipronged litigation in state and federal court against the city, as well as businesses and individuals.
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Despite decades of multipronged efforts to address physician distribution in minority and shortage areas, strategies remain limited.
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But the multipronged campaign to reform the Chambers Law marked a significant change in the dissidents' goals.
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Thus, the preventive intervention had a multipronged strategy: collaboration, advocacy, resource development, education, and services (CARES -- the project's name, identity, and purpose).
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Don Cline echoed the need for additional funding and explained there is a multipronged effort underway to help PARI achieve its long-term financial goals.
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At Northern Essex's Lawrence campus, where 66 percent of the student population is Hispanic, college officials are engaged in a multipronged approach to ease the process of validating credentials and credits earned overseas.
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ATD takes a multipronged approach to improving student outcomes by focusing on institutional change as well as state-level policy that can support improvements in community college developmental education using the following strategies (Collins, 2009):
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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5.9
Having many different parts or sides
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5.8
A journey that uses two or more types of transport, for example truck and ship
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5.5
Having many different parts or aspects
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4.4
Using several different ways to reach or talk to people, for example online and in shops
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6.5
Having many parts or features and not simple
Having several different stories or topics happening at the same time
Antonyms
How Many Approaches
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word multipronged comes from multi- meaning 'many' and prong meaning a 'point' like the tines of a fork, so a multipronged plan uses several different methods or approaches at the same time.