half measures

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[pl.] (disapproving) a policy or plan of action that is weak and does not do enough: There are no half measures with this company.

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half measuresEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus half measuresEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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