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pitfall Definition In English

0 a likely mistake or problem in a situation:
- There's a video that tells new students about pitfalls to avoid.
- The store fell into one of the major pitfalls of small business, borrowing from suppliers by paying bills late.
1 an unexpected danger or difficulty:
- Who knows what kind of pitfalls they’re going to run into.
2 a problem, used especially about problems that may happen in the future:
- common/potential pitfalls
- He took financial advice on how to avoid the pitfalls of setting up your own business.

The problems and pitfalls of developing and legislating health policy are taken up in the next two papers.
This finesse avoids the programmatic pitfall by allowing the user to decide on appropriate names for terms, which are completely ignored in computations.
Recent dramatic yield increases of annual grain crops, supported by high inputs of fossil fuels, provide opportunities and potential pitfalls.
They may be all too aware of the pitfalls of the market, the fickleness of government policy and the unpredictable results of fund managers.
Working in presentday society and coming to grips with the various demands, challenges and pitfalls for our discipline, demands we create a strong infrastructure.
Beneficial arthropods (insectivores and granivores) were monitored using pitfall (arthropod activity) and quadrat (arthropod density) samples.
To their credit, most of the contributors to this collection find a way to avoid this pitfall.
Many pitfalls are described, such as refusing to believe that a language can be as complicated as it is, together with methods to avoid them.