noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reach maturity (= be fully grown or developed )
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It takes ten years for these fish to reach maturity.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
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The shorter the average maturity of their deposits, the greater will have to be the liquidity of their assets.
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The average portfolio maturity of tax-free funds shortened to 51 days from 53 days, according to the newsletter.
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Since 1975 the Treasury has been working to lengthen the average maturity of the debt, and with good reason.
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The average portfolio maturity of tax-free funds shortened by four days to 47 days.
early
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But early maturity led to her killing herself.
emotional
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Her emotional maturity should be such that she does not have to gratify personal needs at the patient's expense.
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Some teachers and most students have limited intellectual and emotional maturity ....
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Believe me, intellectual age has little to do with emotional maturity .
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They tend to aggravate rather than improve the poor self-esteem, poor individual coping skills and poor emotional maturity in the primary sufferer.
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This is still true when he says that some of the respondents lacked the emotional maturity to respond adequately to poetry.
full
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They have now reached their full maturity and are a blaze of colour for most of the year.
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Date palms are one of the few fruit trees that can be safely transplanted at full maturity .
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It applies only to those reaching pensionable age since April 1978 and will not reach full maturity until 1998.
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It can be indicative of full maturity of the follower, now left to run his own activities without supervision.
great
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The older generation have greater maturity and insights which they can usefully contribute, even though the situation is not of their making.
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We need great focus, maturity .
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I put it down to greater maturity and not worrying.
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He also infused the work with a profound vision reflecting great maturity and emotional depth.
new
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Why is it that they bestow their ardour upon the well-adjusted, wholesome architects of pop's fatal new maturity ?
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Challenges can catapult a child into new maturity .
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A new honesty, a new understanding, a new maturity of love was created in the family.
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The new maturity analysis of liquid assets requires separate disclosure for debt securities and loans and advances to credit institutions.
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Gone, maybe, are the famed histrionics but in their place is an assuredness which hints at a new maturity .
physical
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And studies show that intellectual and emotional growth does seem to stall after we reach physical maturity .
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The compulsion to develop physical maturity long in advance of emotional growth was irresistible.
political
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So the political maturity of the Federal Republic and its institutions will be tested as never before.
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Oswald and admired his political maturity .
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His marriage was a declaration of independence: of personal and political maturity .
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And it was hardly one which appealed to Emperor Bao Dai, nomatterwhat one may have thought of his political maturity .
■ NOUN
date
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Zeros offer near certain sums of return at a certain maturity date .
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The prices of forward exchange and futures contract are virtually identical once contracts have same maturity dates . 8.
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Investors can build a portfolio of zeros with staggered maturity dates to suit their requirements.
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The bond market at any time t consists of a number of outstanding bonds with differing maturity dates .
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The first thing to note is the maturity date of the policy: March 10, 2019.
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The term structure of interest rates is the relationship between the rates of return on bonds with different maturity dates .
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But they have to act within six months of the original Tessa's maturity date .
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In fact, maturity dates are currently much earlier than 25 years.
value
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Even if you have been paying premiums for many years, you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value .
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What is the maturity value of the deposit? 2.
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The purchase price will be and the maturity value will be M 100.
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Then comes a very important figure: £18,000, which is the required maturity value to pay off the mortgage.
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Could also be said to be its maturity value .
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The minimum maturity value after five years will be 100% of your premium plus bonus allocations.
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The estimated maturity value given for your policy may have been based on double-digit growth rates.
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This year's maturity value would be £79,893.
■ VERB
achieve
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She has achieved a maturity and composure that had seemed beyond her scope.
bring
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He brings a maturity , a soundness of judgment and a balance of priorities that would be reassuring in a leader.
grow
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Is the person growing in maturity or not?
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Mary would have twelve children, nine of whom grew to maturity .
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We say that an organism grows towards maturity or in order to reach maturity.
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Other mammals and birds recuperate or grow to maturity in outdoor enclosures.
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Leaders must make the effort to consult and correct and encourage so that what may begin in childishness can grow to maturity .
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Nor can it grow into maturity .
hold
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Another disadvantage of yield to maturity is that investors do not typically hold bonds to maturity.
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Simply buy and hold good bonds until maturity .
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Does this make the Treasury bill unsaleable, and therefore have to be held to maturity by the current holder?
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However, a loss is still sustained, even if the bill is held to maturity and not sold.
pay
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In addition a bonus, which is guaranteed at the time the account is opened, will be paid on maturity .
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But the redemption yield will be worth something only if there is enough money in the kitty to pay out on maturity .
reach
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They have now reached their full maturity and are a blaze of colour for most of the year.
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And studies show that intellectual and emotional growth does seem to stall after we reach physical maturity .
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But by far the majority perish, before they are even hatched - or at least before they reach maturity and breed themselves.
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It should reach maturity in four to six years and keep for a dozen.
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But Tessa holders can continue to contribute until their accounts reach maturity .
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A third became seedlings, a tenth saplings-but just fifteen reached maturity .
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The male, as it reaches maturity develops stag-like antlers on and around the front of the head.
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As we understand it, he will live what you must admit is an ... unnatural life? until he reaches maturity .
show
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The 16-year-old Dominic Williamson showed tremendous maturity for at.
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But what this was about was showing maturity .
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By simply refusing to follow the pack you have shown considerable maturity .
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An independent company, that is, with its two main engines of growth showing definite signs of maturity .
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After Assen he said that West showed a lot of maturity on a wet, slippery surface.
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Gascoigne, himself, shows signs of maturity on the pitch, if not off it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sharks take 10 years to reach maturity .
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The plant reaches maturity after two years.
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There's a real difference in the maturity level of a 13- and a 15-year-old.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Graham stayed until January 1966 and saw Palace to Second Division maturity and stability.
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He also infused the work with a profound vision reflecting great maturity and emotional depth.
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It's time for him to match his maturity with his golf and realise he's not going to win every time.
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The bond is currently priced at 98-16 per 100 nominal with a yield to maturity of 12.50 percent.
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The term structure of interest rates describes the relationship between the yield to maturity and the term to maturity of debt issues.
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Thus juvenile mortality readily influences size by tuning the timing of maturity .