creative solution
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3.5
- noun
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solución creativa
- The team brainstormed to develop creative solutions for reducing waste in the office.
- generate creative solutions
- creative solutions to problems
- devise creative solutions
That was our creative solution that the screenwriter agreed to.
- That was our creative solution that the screenwriter agreed to.
- We need creative solutions, we need innovation.
- There was a creative solution, we just couldn't manifest it.
- And so my challenge is as we think about things like this, that we do the hard work of advocating for creative solutions, right?
- You know, it's just part of a creative a, a possible creative solution to the complex trap that he was stuck in.
Examples
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You can also help the parents find creative solutions for any difficulties their child might be experiencing.
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Certainly, they can be a positive thing, an engine driving the search for creative solutions in difficult times.
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The most difficult times often force us to look for creative solutions.
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Know that creative solutions come from new connections.
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We need creative solutions, we need innovation.
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I am flexible and look for creative solutions.
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I work more efficiently with others and can more readily think of creative solutions to difficult problems.
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Social workers can assist educators, students, and families in finding creative solutions to children's problems.
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The Salvation Army's mission is to serve the whole person with integrity and respect, using creative solutions to positively transform lives.
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The QDDR endorses USAID's creation of Development Innovation Ventures, by which creative solutions will be funded, piloted, and brought to scale.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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2.1
An answer to a problem or a way to deal with a difficult situation
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2.7
An answer that fixes a problem or difficulty
Antonyms
How Creative
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase's meaning is directly compositional: 'creative' (able to invent or imagine new things) modifies 'solution' (a proposed answer), so the combined sense of an original or innovative answer follows straightforwardly. This adjective-noun pattern is common cross-linguistically and non-idiomatic, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Creative solution links making something new (creative) with an 'answer' to a problem (solution). Think of someone fixing a machine with an idea no one tried before, so creative solution means a new and clever way to solve a problem.