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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Applicable to and Applicable for

Hi,

Am Deepika. I just wanted to kno the difference between Applicable to and Applicable for.

How to know when to use "Applicable to" and when to use "Applicable for".

Kindly explain with examples.
  

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The Contemporary American corpus gives me only 52 instances of 'applicable for ' but 1104 instances of 'applicable to '. The first few examples I examined suggest that the uses are the same. ' Applicable to ' is much more generally acceptable.

— Mister Micawber

  • The Contemporary American corpus gives me only 52 instances of 'applicable for ' but 1104 instances of 'applicable to '.
  • The first few examples I examined suggest that the uses are the same.
  • ' Applicable to ' is much more generally acceptable.
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The Contemporary American corpus gives me only 52 instances of 'applicable for' but 1104 instances of 'applicable to'. The first few examples I examined suggest that the uses are the same. 'Applicable to' is much more generally acceptable.
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