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question | American Dictionary

question noun (SOMETHING ASKED)

question noun (PROBLEM)

[ C ] Answer as many questions as you can.

question noun (DOUBT)

question verb [T] (ASK)

(Definition of question from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

question | Business English

ask (sb) a question Can I ask a question, Gail?

have a question Does anybody have any questions?

bring/call sth into question

in question

if something is in question, no-one knows what is going to happen to it:

to ask someone questions about something:

(Definition of question from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of question

question

This is surprising, given that questions of revenue generation affect ordinary people in basic and sometimes very serious ways.

Given the nature of our research questions, we needed to target organic shoppers.

On neither of these ways of construing the existence question does it present a substantial philosophical issue.

First, one may question whether there are future events that are currently physically necessitated.

If we say that these values correspond to certain concepts, it must be understood that the concepts in question are purely differential.

There is also the question of marking pupils' or students' work.

Returning to our original question, we must consider possible psychological mediators of hierarchy disruption.

What this protective attribute is relates to the second question, that of what mechanisms underlie the protective effect.

Pathbreaking verbs in syntactic development and the question of prototypical transitivity.

Because we did not tell the control group participants the form that the comprehension questions would take, this reviewer's point remains a possibility.

Yet important normative questions have remained about the policies a liberal state should adopt toward religion.

From the point of view of the higher-level authority, it remains a completely open question.

But the question regarding whether such a prayer can be impetratory still remains.

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What features surviving firms have obviously depends on the answers to these questions.

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Collocations with question

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basic question

Research on this basic question is ongoing and far from settled.