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> What illegally driven-down wages mean is that the shortage is more acute that previously thought.

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noun

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adjective

having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients"

adjective

extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning"

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noun

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adjective

having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients"

adjective

extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning"

adjective

having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"

adjective

of an angle; less than 90 degrees

adjective

ending in a sharp point

adjective

of critical importance and consequence; "an acute (or critical) lack of research funds"

Example sentences

> What illegally driven-down wages mean is that the shortage is more acute that previously thought.

This can clog the kidneys and lead to acute kidney failure, which can then lead to acute heart failure, all told potentially 48 hours out.

But in the acute case, where there are localized lesions to the parts of the cerebellum thought to be involved in cognition, the effect seems to be primarily cognitive.

Regular use of the national health system is only available to legal residents, but acute emergency care is considered a basic service not subject to billing, like police and fire response.

The problem starts when "acute business acumen" involves active participation in political processes in order to gain special advantages or avoid duties which are placed on other members of society.

But this doesn't follow:> Maybe if CEO's weren't illegally conspiring to drive wages below their market value, there wouldn't be a so-called "engineer shortage"?What illegally driven-down wages mean is that the shortage is more acute that previously thought.

Here's numbers and a primary source [0]:"For perspective, the maximum potential radiation dose received by any ship's force personnel aboard the ship when it passed through the area was less than the radiation exposure received from about one month of exposure to natural background radiation from sources such as rocks, soil, and the sun."Meaning ~300 uSv, or three orders of magnitude short of acute radiation poisoning [1].