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How to pronounce stringency in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms strictness
Type of conscientiousness, painstakingness
Derivation stringent
Type Words
Synonyms tightness
Type of deficiency, lack, want

Examples of stringency

stringency
An additional difficulty is the current stringency of environmental legislation.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Researchers can control PACE's selection stringency as well as its mutation rate.
From the sciencedaily.com
We are so lucky to be British, even in the present era of financial stringency.
From the economist.com
Monetary and fiscal stringency left real output lower in 1928 than in 1918.
From the economist.com
This was interpreted abroad as an encouraging sign of stringency in U.S. monetary policy.
From the time.com
It seems to be the prestige of the modernists he admires, rather than their stringency.
From the guardian.co.uk
Etiquette can vary in its specification and stringency between different styles of dance.
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The assertion that these departments need to be cut due to financial stringency is not true.
From the guardian.co.uk
They then assembled the genome again with a higher stringency cutoff.
From the viriditasveritas.scienceblog.com
More examples
  • A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
  • Strictness: conscientious attention to rules and details
  • (stringent) rigorous: demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; "rigorous discipline"; "tight security"; "stringent safety measures"
  • A rigorous imposition of standards; A tightness or constriction; A scarcity of money or credit
  • (stringent) Strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe
  • (stringent) Strict, severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp or bitter to the taste
  • (Stringent) means: Strict. The rules at Cashew Hall are often stringent.
  • Reaction conditions such as temperature, salt, and pH that dictate the annealing in single-stranded DNA or RNA hybridizations. ...
  • The conditions of hybridization that increase the base-pairing of binding between two single strand portions of nucleic acid.