Definitions
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- adjective Being or occurring between generations.
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- adjective Between or across
generations .
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Examples
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As cognitive skills become increasingly important determinants of wealth, we may see a reduction in intergenerational mobility across income classes.
The Inequality Issue, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Such arrangements are not always well suited to respond to more complex, cross-sectoral challenges posed by sustainable development, which has a longer-term intergenerational time horizon, requiring sustained commitment going beyond the typical 4 – 5 year electoral cycles.
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What about longer-term intergenerational mobility?
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Discussions of sustainability focus on the idea of intergenerational equity—providing the next generation, and the ones that follow, with the same environmental potential as presently exists.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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ONEgeneration in Van Nuys, for example, pioneered the idea of intergenerational day care, pairing seniors, including those with Alzheimer's disease, with day care for toddlers.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Long-Term Health Care: Think, Plan While You're Healthy, Able M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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ONEgeneration in Van Nuys, for example, pioneered the idea of intergenerational day care, pairing seniors, including those with Alzheimer's disease, with day care for toddlers.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Long-Term Health Care: Think, Plan While You're Healthy, Able M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Bodies such as the University of Munich and the Bank for International Settlements have already expressed alarm at the volume of these so-called intergenerational obligations.
Britain Eamonn Butler 2010
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Travel companies and industry surveys indicate that so-called intergenerational travel is more popular than ever.
All in the Family 2008
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But compared with similar developed countries, the United States ranks fifth out of six for so-called intergenerational mobility.
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M. O'BRIEN: For boomers, it's a flashback to the communes of the '60s, so-called intergenerational co-housing communities, planned by the residents.
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