Collocations for "significant"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "significant" in context.
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significant
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- suffered a significant [loss, defeat]
- is a significant difference [from, between]
- has a significant [effect, impact]
- was a significant [moment, date, event] in history
- that is a significant [percentage, amount, increase]
- significant side effects (may include)
- [is, represents] a significant number of [patients, cases, sales]
- have made significant [progress, improvements] on
- have made a significant [reduction, change] to
- [made, was, offered] a significant contribution to
- has taken on significant [meaning, importance]
- significant [figures, digits]
- your significant other
- is significant for the [company, country]
- is significant to note [the, that]
- is significant to [me, many people]
- is significant and [growing, important, substantial]
- is [thought, considered] to be significant
- is becoming [more and more, increasingly] significant
- [are, could be] more or less significant
- [economically, numerically, particularly] significant
- strategically significant [customers, cities]
- is thought to be significant
- (does) not appear to be significant
'significant' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
backlog
- barrier
- benefit
- bonus
- burden
- cause
- chance
- change
- consignment
- constitute
- constraint
- contribution
- cooperation
- decrease
- delay
- deterrent
- deterrent effect
- devoid
- difficulty
- disadvantage
- disconnect
- disregard
- distance
- diversion
- drain
- drawback
- edit
- effect
- entail
- error
- event
- evidence
- exception
- exert
- experience
- export
- extent
- failings
- flooding
- gap
- happening
- hindrance
- increase
- information
- investment
- manufacture
- meaning
- modification
- movement
- nevertheless