The phrase "a conservative definition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a definition that adheres to traditional or established views, often in contrast to more progressive or liberal interpretations.
Example: "In this context, we will refer to a conservative definition of democracy, which emphasizes the importance of established institutions and practices."
Alternatives: "a traditional definition" or "an orthodox definition".
Next, we should expect megabanks and their representatives to whine that reasonable levels of bail-in capital (e.g., 20 to 30 percent of total assets; see Pages 7 and 8 of this letter to the Fed by Sheila Bair, Professor Admati, Richard Herring and me) — and a conservative definition of bail-in creditors — will crater the real economy.
Numerous patients (n = 15, 8%) were found to be hypoxemic, despite a conservative definition for hypoxemia of SpO2 < 90% and measuring saturation at rest.
Besides, the use of a conservative definition of mismatch for those occupations such that the frequencies of two or more schooling levels are within 15 percentage points of each other implies that only in cases where the fraction of overeducated individuals is significantly higher than the fraction of matched individuals would our measure overestimate the actual required schooling level.
Given the controversies and complexities surrounding the concept of social capital and its measurement (see [11]) especially in developing countries, and for simplicity in disaggregating the WTP variable, we use trust in an institution (government) as a conservative definition of social capital.
To minimise misclassification bias we used a conservative definition for categorising patients as severe and less severe.
This is a conservative definition of the MCE and reflects the core areas of the mediterranean biome.
Since these existing helmet systems have not been linked to short- or long-term issues, these measures provide a preliminary, conservative definition of a safe design envelope for evaluating for future developments.
In sensitivity analyses, we used a more conservative definition requiring a four-fold rise in titre to 1 16 or greater.
While others set the limit at 5%, we also included analyses based on a more conservative definition of a distractor as non-functional when <1% of the candidates chose it.
This decrease in orphan genes stems not only from the addition of missing gene models based on homology and from a more conservative definition of orphan genes in this study (BLAST E > 10− in a database of 520,428 proteins) but also from an increased taxon sampling and revisions in the official genome annotation.
