adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a developing economy (= one that is getting stronger and starting to include more modern industries )
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Many developing economies are investing in sources of renewable energy.
a developing/emerging nation (= one that is starting to have more industry )
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Food shortages are often a problem in developing nations.
a developing/Third World country (= poor and trying to increase its industry and trade )
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Many developing countries receive some foreign aid.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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The company is also developing two new materials which it hopes will be strong enough to fill cavities in the back teeth.
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Sun is also developing multiple iterations of Tsunami, its low-end low-cost high-volume single-chip MicroSparc engine.
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A similar trend is also developing whereby parents sell their home when their children have established an independent existence.
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It is also developing ann information service, meals-on-wheels, and support groups.
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The theories about how the signalling behaviour is controlled are also developing fast.
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Most of the other companies included in the table are also developing or have already developed liaisons of this type.
rapidly
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This makes the sperm, like all rapidly developing cells, especially vulnerable to damage from chemicals or radiation.
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It will be appreciated that this rapidly developing field of expertise contains extensive new jargon.
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Three open sprinklers were found to be sufficient to stop even the most rapidly developing fire.
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Bioremediation is a promising and rapidly developing treatment technology with a bright future.
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This is a rapidly developing field which poses great challenges for both experimentalists and theoreticians.
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In advertising, you are part of the most rapidly developing new industry in the world, namely communications and information technology.
still
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Cells in the tumour seem to resemble the body's own cells soon after conception when a baby is still developing .
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It is a comprehensive system - and still developing .
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We are still developing as a group and learning as we go along.
■ NOUN
country
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We have promised to provide new and additional resources to help the developing countries to tackle their environmental problems.
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At the most basic level, then, the health of women and girls in developing countries continued to be neglected.
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The developing countries were urged to renounce such military links and embrace a policy of neutralism or non-alignment.
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Life expectation at birth is about 45 years in developing countries and more than 70 years in developed countries.
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Exchange rates Many developing countries attempt to manage their exchange rates.
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Governments of developing countries give only low budgets to developing communications.
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Secretory diarrhoea is an important health problem particularly in developing countries .
economy
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These include the need for foreign currency and the attraction of foreign companies and their interests in developing economies .
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In developing economies these two propositions are not incompatible.
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Goods traffic is more fundamental to a developing economy than is that in passengers or mail, but these are also important.
nation
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Eva took those from the developing nations particularly under her wing.
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These problems include those associated with rural poverty, malnutrition, population changes and environmental degradation in developing nations .
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Staff are also seconded to fill established posts in geological survey departments in the developing nations of the Commonwealth.
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In the last two decades world production of electricity has roughly doubled, with the developing nations pulling towards overtaking the developed.
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Visby's compromise was regarded by the developing nations as responsive to the complaints of maritime carriers.
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It was also argued that the ban was premature and that developing nations would have their industrial development impaired as a result.
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These problems can occur in societies which are already developed and modern as well as in developing nations .
world
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Almost all the growth will occur in the cities of the developing world .
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A final factor that affects the number of children desired by developing world couples is infant mortality.
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The organisers hope that the event will have raised £25,000 for charitable projects at home and in the developing world .
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Here as elsewhere in the developing world , traffic snarls have increased tensions and decreased productivity.
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The complexity of rural development everywhere, whether in the developed or the developing world , is not always realised.
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A more open international trading system was needed to provide access to exports from the developing world .
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Currently, Televisa is the largest communications corporation in the developing world .
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Thus the management of forests on a global basis constitutes an agent of environmental change in both the developed and developing world .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a developing fetus
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Good nutrition is very important to a developing child.
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the developing crisis in the Middle East
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These drugs are effective in the developing stages of the disease.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In two developing countries, the lowest frequency of fetal mortality is at births above second but below sixth or seventh order.
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Objective: to promote international trade, particularly that of developing countries, with a view to accelerating economic development.
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This hormone is produced by the developing embryo within a few days of the egg being fertilised.