noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
congressional
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California already has the largest congressional delegation with 52 members in the House of Representatives.
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Don Edwards, D-San Jose, the dean of the California congressional delegation .
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The program, supported by the Florida congressional delegation , would create 1, 000 jobs at the engine plant.
financial
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The two major components of these new managerial powers and responsibilities are financial delegation and staffing delegation.
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Thus, schools not only have to deal with financial delegation but they have to be very aware of market forces.
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However, financial delegation was seen as running efficiently with or without the involvement of the staff.
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Arrangements for insurance will be included in the financial delegation scheme, but governors should check that cover is adequate.
foreign
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For the first time in the party's history the congress took place without the participation of foreign fraternal party delegations .
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But the foreign business delegations and conferences are multiplying.
large
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In the case of some of the larger departments, delegation of sections of the self-appraisal was inevitable.
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California already has the largest congressional delegation with 52 members in the House of Representatives.
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Whitehall's biggest potential ally is the United States, which is sending a large delegation to fight the ban.
official
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Hulbert arrived several months ahead of the official delegation to do advance work.
parliamentary
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Two weeks ago, I revisited Zagreb having previously led a parliamentary delegation there a year ago.
soviet
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A Soviet delegation arrives this month to discuss the experiments and the choice of astronaut.
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Your government's invited a Soviet delegation to talk about Berlin next week.
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Among the Soviet delegation were some figures of substance.
■ NOUN
member
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Many of the delegation members had begun to weep.
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He can see through the window that the delegation members have gathered at two round tables.
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The delegation members stand in the back of the room until Angelita invites them to sit among the twenty or so students.
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As their days there passed, the delegation members did more and more things separately.
state
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Democratic party rules require that state delegations to the convention be split evenly between men and women.
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Boylan added that ethnic quotas are not imposed on state delegations to the convention.
trade
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A dinner and the theatre afterwards, arranged by his own ambassador to entertain the trade delegation he was leading.
■ VERB
include
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Baker insisted that the delegation include at least one deportee and one person with East Jerusalem links.
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He stated that Bush had not been present during the Paris negotiations, but claimed that the Reagan delegation had included Casey.
invite
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Your government's invited a Soviet delegation to talk about Berlin next week.
lead
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This leads nicely to: delegation .
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Party insiders had speculated about competition between Symington and Woods to lead the delegation .
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Two weeks ago, I revisited Zagreb having previously led a parliamentary delegation there a year ago.
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He leads Khmer Rouge delegations at international conferences, and has been promoted as the moderate face of the Khmer Rouge.
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He was leading a delegation of remarkable size: no less than seven members of the Cabinet made the six-week trip.
meet
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Mr Freeman said he would come to the town after meeting an all-party delegation from the council in London.
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It was suggested at one meeting with the delegation that such an investigation could prove embarrassing for current government officials.
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Mr. McLoughlin I give the undertaking that I will meet any delegation that my hon. Friend wishes to bring to me.
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Returning home on December 21, 1926, he was met by an imposing delegation .
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The strike ended after 10 hours when Walesa agreed to meet their delegation .
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Officials had indicated that he would not meet the delegation until after a final accord had been signed.
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Earlier in the week Darlington council's controlling Labour group refused to meet the all-white delegation .
receive
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Instead they received a delegation of government officials, scientists, economists and businessmen.
send
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Whitehall's biggest potential ally is the United States, which is sending a large delegation to fight the ban.
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Speaking through various medicine-men, the deity suggested sending a Navajo delegation eastward to Taos.
visit
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Western delegations had visited the Soviet Union during September to research the economic situation.
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Last year a woman from Boston who was with a delegation of teachers visited one of the madres at her home.
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A Caldaire delegation visited London earlier this week for talks with Department of Transport officials.
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We visited the same classroom your delegation visited.
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Mr Freeman was invited to the town by an all-party delegation of councillors who visited him in London in December.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A delegation from Nigeria has arrived to have talks with the British foreign minister.
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Headteachers have sent a delegation to London to ask the government to put more money into education.
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Kemp met with the California delegation on Monday afternoon.
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the delegation of authority
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The Dutch Prime Minister led a 12 member economic delegation to Indonesia to discuss future investments in the country.
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The health ministers agreed to meet a delegation of heart patients.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Already a delegation of illegal immigrants has been let into the courtyard at Strasbourg.
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Among them was a delegation from Oxfordshire.
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But the foreign business delegations and conferences are multiplying.
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It met in late 1918, chose a delegation to Paris, and disbanded.
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Some birds gather and peck the concrete in the space the delegation has just been standing in.