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verdict

ver·dict /ˈvɜːdɪkt $ ˈvɜːr-/ noun [countable]

  • someone’s opinion about something:
    • The audience’s final verdict was encouraging.
    • verdict on
      • What’s your verdict on the movie?
    • give (somebody) your verdict (on something)
      • Trade unionists were quick to give their verdict on the proposals.

demography

de·mog·ra·phy /dɪˈmɒɡrəfi $ -ˈmɑː-/ noun [uncountable] the study of human populations and the ways in which they change, for example the study of how many births, marriages and deaths happen in a particular place at a particular time

  • demographer noun [countable]

articulate

ar·tic·u·late1 /ɑːˈtɪkjəleɪt, ɑːˈtɪkjʊleɪt $ ɑːr-/ verb

  1. [transitive] formal to express your ideas or feelings in words:
    • Many people are unable to articulate the unhappiness they feel.
  2. [intransitive and transitive] to pronounce what you are saying in a clear and careful way:
    • He was so drunk that he could barely articulate his words.
  3. [intransitive and transitive] technical if something such as a bone in your body is articulated to another thing, it is joined to it in a way that allows movement
  4. articulate something with something formal if one idea, system etc articulates with another idea, system etc, the two things are related and exist together:
    • a new course that is designed to articulate with the current degree course

integrity

in·teg·ri·ty AC /ɪnˈteɡrəti, ɪnˈteɡrɪti/ noun [uncountable]

  1. the quality of being honest and strong about what you believe to be right
    • personal/professional/political etc integrity
      • a man of great moral integrity
  2. formal the state of being united as one complete thing:
    • the territorial integrity of the country

consensus

con·sen·sus AC /kənˈsensəs/ noun [singular, uncountable]

  • an opinion that everyone in a group agrees with or accepts SYN agreement
    • consensus on/about
      • a lack of consensus about the aims of the project
    • consensus that
      • There is a consensus among teachers that children should have a broad understanding of the world.
      • The EU Council of Finance Ministers failed to reach a consensus on the pace of integration.
      • the current consensus of opinion
      • The general consensus was that technology was a good thing.
      • the consensus politics of the fifties