adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a potential/prospective client (= someone who might become a client )
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Make sure potential clients know about all of your services.
a potential/prospective customer (= who might become a customer in the future )
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It’s very important to establish contact with potential customers.
a prospective candidate (= someone who might apply for a job or position )
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Prospective candidates must be educated to degree level.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
buyer
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We will have to arrange for advance publicity, set up an office and make arrangements to show prospective buyers around.
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Abele also will provide prospective buyers with e-mail updates of new listings that meet their criteria.
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Though, as we discuss below, this provision has been modified, the nationalistic sentiment was clearly registered by prospective buyers .
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In University City, some agents issue similar warnings to prospective buyers .
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The only way they can market their products is to produce literature detailed enough to convince the prospective buyer .
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The driver seemed as concerned to show off his excessive acceleration as if we had been prospective buyers and he a salesman.
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Voice over Around 1,000 prospective buyers are likely to turn up for tomorrow's sale.
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The prospect has got prospective buyers drooling.
candidate
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This allows them to work out how the organisation functions and so determine what are the appropriate attributes needed by prospective candidates .
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Requiring drug tests of this discrete group of citizens is an intrusion, a humiliation and a subtle deterrent to prospective candidates .
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Interviewing prospective candidates was quite an eye opener for people who haven't a clue on what that job entails.
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The Congregation itself is being more selective and encouraging prospective candidates to complete their school education.
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Anyone who could name their career and promise a steadily rising salary could be a prospective candidate for a mortgage.
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Once you have a list of prospective candidates , you need to do a bit of research.
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The élite squads work more intensively and aim to produce at least three prospective candidates in each weight division.
client
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Consideration should be given to the background of prospective clients and their motives for requiring us to carry out the work.
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Hadn't he taken a day off to go fishing, while Adam busied himself with prospective clients ?
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Make like you are prospective clients , looking to rent a secluded property to write a book or something.
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Instead, find out what your current and prospective clients want, and then recreate the firm to deliver it.
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Friday night, and tomorrow held the prospect of a trip to the Cotswolds to see a prospective client .
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The final straw came when two prospective clients became the latest victims of crime.
customer
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It's a get-together for some of our clients and their wives, and hopefully for prospective customers , too.
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They made their living hanging around police stations, paying policemen to alert them to prospective customers .
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Travel agents could sell holidays by providing prospective customers with a full multimedia account of their travel options.
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In looking at a support structure, there are at least five basic areas that a prospective customer should evaluate: 1.
donor
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Curators, art dealers, conservators, art donors and prospective donors seek his attention.
employee
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He stresses the rationality and efficiency of network recruitment for both employers and prospective employees .
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Not only does a company interview prospective employees , the would-be employees are supposed to interview the company.
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Nothing is more off-putting to a prospective employee than a delay in reply.
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Medical Examination All prospective employees are required to undergo a medical examination at a medical establishment nominated by the Company.
employer
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Some prospective employers were more concerned with my nursery arrangements than with my qualifications.
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Writing a resume of your achievements that will make a prospective employer want to meet you requires practice.
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It is important to be able to prove to prospective employers that you have the relevant experience for the job.
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This tells your prospective employer that you are very positive and that you know where you are going.
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It is a good idea to take along a number of copies of your c.v. which you can leave with prospective employers .
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Each of these had a specific meaning for prospective employers .
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After beating incredible odds to prove himself a classroom genius, Steven has been cruelly snubbed by prospective employers .
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To protect yourself, experts recommend you ask a prospective employer for a contract.
investor
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Actuaries are asked to provide information on products and companies for prospective investors and their advisers.
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They resented standing in line while tellers explained money-market accounts and no-load funds to prospective investors .
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There may be other issues of importance to individual prospective investors , who must make additional enquiries as they see necessary.
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An opportunity will be made available for prospective investors to make additional enquiries.
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Registration is also of interest to credit analysts, liquidators, receivers, shareholders, and prospective investors .
juror
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The prospective jurors all were screened from public view by a new partial wall the judge ordered installed in the courtroom.
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The prospective jurors are in the corridor.
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Monday, prospective jurors filled out a six-page questionaire that asked about their jobs, education and military training.
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Of the prospective jurors questioned, only six were dismissed in open court.
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The pool of prospective jurors all knew something about Madonna, and many said they had her recordings.
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He also said he did not want prospective jurors to read news reports of how a person might be excused from serving.
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On Tuesday, jury selection begins as a panel of 75 prospective jurors is given questionnaires to complete.
member
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Over 50 attended the function, but what was so encouraging was the quality of the prospective members that attended.
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The upper limit for prospective members of the future monetary union is 3 percent.
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Otherwise auditing as a career will become even more unattractive to prospective members than it is already.
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The attorneys approached the bench, assorted papers were passed around, and the prospective members of the jury were led in.
parent
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The first visit by prospective parents is important as it creates a lasting impression.
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Soon, prospective parents come forward.
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Which is why we've developed our Ultra Sound Diagnostic Scanner to offer peace of mind to prospective parents .
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Some researchers say that interracial adoptions are more complicated than many prospective parents believe.
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So for all you prospective parents out there help may be at hand in around two years time.
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Through a relative, they learned of Hicks and added their name to his list of prospective parents .
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Everything I saw told me I was a prospective parent taking a tour.
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Schools should also hold meetings for prospective parents .
partner
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Newbridge officials said they are working out a business strategy with their prospective partner , whom they declined to name.
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So accept that what you see in a prospective partner is what you will get.
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Take your prospective partner to meet a prospect that she has never met.
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One important proviso: You must expect that you will be wanting your prospective partner to win this test.
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All these trials will give you a better knowledge of your prospective partner .
purchaser
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The prospective purchaser can also choose the size of the gadget.
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The bids that prospective purchasers make and the outline of their proposals will be taken carefully into account.
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The price must be clearly legible to a prospective purchaser and clearly identifiable as referring to the goods in question.
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The argument that cheaper labour costs force manufacture abroad should not be acceptable to us as prospective purchasers .
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The Bentleys were the tenth set of prospective purchasers whom he had shown round the house.
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A steady demand was maintained during the building programme with prospective purchasers queuing on occasions to avoid disappointment.
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The defendants showed both houses to a prospective purchaser , whose offer to purchase the adjacent house was accepted.
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It does not purport to contain all the information that a prospective purchaser may require.
student
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The faculty welcomes prospective students wishing to visit departments.
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Unfortunately, the prospective student decided that the University of Vermont was not for her.
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He believes their disorganised state is turning off more and more prospective students .
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Of course it is necessary for the prospective student to possess a reasonable amount of intelligence as well as a genuine desire to help others.
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It said 78 percent of the schools require prospective students to demonstrate grade-level achievement.
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A highly competitive employment situation for these jobs means that prospective students must be high on self-belief and talent!
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Pierre sometimes finds himself caught between his loyalty to Vassar and his feelings of loyalty to prospective students of color.
study
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Definitive evidence of discrimination, however, may be obtained only from a prospective study .
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Several prospective studies have shown improvement in linear growth in individual children with nutritional restitution.
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This would enable prospective studies to be performed to determine the importance of platelet function in the development of vascular disease.
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A prospective study comparing exfoliative and brush cytology has not yet been reported.
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There have been few controlled prospective studies of the effect of transferring to human insulin on the clinical presentation of hypoglycaemia.
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The prospective study , however, indicated a clear cut association between pseudomelanosis coli and colorectal tumours in man.
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So far, no prospective study has been performed to investigate the natural history of gastric metaplasia.
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This assumption, however, has still to be supported by prospective studies .
tenant
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Furthermore, the current state of the property market encourages landowners and both existing and prospective tenants to strike complex deals.
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One of the prospective tenants was Clarke Romans, who wanted to locate a micro-brewery in a secondary building on the property.
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However, I must tell you that another prospective tenant has appeared on the scene.
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Board members advised prospective tenants to try out the units for 48 hours before moving in.
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Many landlords in Calcutta, for example, make prospective tenants promise not to burn coal.
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She introduced prospective tenants to properties and arranged lettings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Prospective jurors waited in the hallway.
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My mother keeps introducing me to men she considers to be prospective husbands.
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Texaco has introduced a compulsory HIV testing program for all prospective employees.
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the prospective costs of the deal
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Otherwise, the prospective aerial photographer must construct the carrier using alloy strip or channel.
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Pre-service preparation initiates the prospective teacher into the basics of professional activity.
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The argument that cheaper labour costs force manufacture abroad should not be acceptable to us as prospective purchasers.
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The pool of prospective jurors all knew something about Madonna, and many said they had her recordings.
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They made their living hanging around police stations, paying policemen to alert them to prospective customers.
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This made a positive impression on those in a position to refer prospective patients.
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Writing a resume of your achievements that will make a prospective employer want to meet you requires practice.