I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
allocating resources
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the importance of allocating resources to local communities
cash resources
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The organization’s cash resources are limited.
divert...resources
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The company should divert more resources into research.
drain on...resources
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The war was an enormous drain on the country’s resources .
draw on sb's resources
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The committee has drawn on the resources and skills of several local people.
energy resources
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The world’s energy resources are being used up at an alarming rate.
expend energy/effort/time/resources etc
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People of different ages expend different amounts of energy.
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Manufacturers have expended a lot of time and effort trying to improve computer security.
finite resources
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the Earth’s finite resources
human resources
limited resources
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The organization has very limited resources .
meagre resources
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a school with meagre resources
mineral resources
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a country with few mineral resources
natural resource
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a country with abundant natural resources
non-renewable resources
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All countries are being asked to cut down on their use of non-renewable resources .
pool...resources
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Investors agreed to pool their resources to develop the property.
redistribute income/wealth/resources etc
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a programme to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor
renewable resources
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an industry based on renewable resources
resources
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The government has squandered the country’s precious resources.
scarce resources
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There was fierce competition for the scarce resources .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
additional
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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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They act as guardians of the public purse when dealing with members of spending departments who seek additional resources .
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Over the next 22 months, additional resources of at least £600 million will be available for investment in education.
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Used as an additional resource , a different dimension which adds to an otherwise laborious process, programs can be very effective.
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The new top-up loan provides additional resources for those groups as well as for other students.
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At least initially, additional resources to the cities were largely contained within the Urban Programme.
available
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Its being so means that more than usual demands must be made on available resources , whether human or material.
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One of the most widely available resources are adult-education classes run by local school districts or community colleges.
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It is obvious that the relatively low price of high grade primary aggregates discourages efficient use of available resources and increases wastage.
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They then compared total spending implications of policies against available resources and different expenditures against each other.
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A second reduction of available resources is due to short term problems in other company functions.
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To balance demand against available resources is a continuing function of health service management intra-contractually and extra-contractually.
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To some degree, managers do have a responsibility to control costs or rather to optimise the use of available resources .
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But they can also be seen as communicatively motivated, the realization of available resources to get a message across.
economic
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The tourist boards see these areas as economic resources where development brings money.
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Technologies have proliferated, economic resources have become constrained, and competition has intensified.
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Married women are treated as dependents by the income tax system, whatever their actual economic resources and social situation.
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In short, monopoly tends to cause a misallocation of economic resources .
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Knowledge, power and economic resources are the raw materials of social action, and they are all unequally available.
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Discontent grew, however, when elected black mayors found that they had few economic resources to command.
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More economic patterns of resource allocation will result as underlying comparative advantages are allowed to exert their full potential.
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As with other parental costs, parental expenditures On education arc also social costs because they absorb economic resources .
extra
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The choices being made by purchasers and providers will have an impact, and in some places extra resources may be required.
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Colonel Bill Creech fired no one, and the wing received no extra resources .
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You can find some extra energy or resources from somewhere.
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These funds are only one element of the package of extra resources for students which I mentioned a moment ago.
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That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs.
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I am not one who believes that extra resources necessarily solve problems or necessarily smooth the way to their solution.
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The Committee concluded that a commitment of extra resources was needed if significant further progress was to be made.
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Will my hon. Friend do his best to ensure that constituents and police combine to spend the extra resources wisely?
financial
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All in all the Tudor monarchs made no permanent addition to the financial resources of the Crown.
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Usually they pool their financial resources and their business acumen.
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Some elderly people entering private care do so using there own financial resources .
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A self-employed per-son with an idea has to be very good at marshaling financial resources .
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There is nothing wrong with being a bit conservative and building up financial resources , and not just jumping straight in.
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Through the securities market, corporations can pool the financial resources of extremely large numbers of people.
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Without state pensions, many elderly people would be deprived of access to any substantial financial resources in their old age.
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You can not pay some one more money if you do not have a power base that controls financial resources .
finite
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This indeed has been the case ever since self-replicating molecular assemblages evolved to exploit finite resources .
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Plastic-producing petroleum is a finite resource .
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Social evolution without ecological reference is ultimately a logical impossibility in a world of finite resources .
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However, given finite resources , concepts of effectiveness and efficiency must be considered alongside concepts of need.
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The use of finite natural resources , e.g. coal, oil, must, perhaps, result in ultimate shortages.
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The North can argue, of course, that in a world of finite fossil fuel resources inefficiency in itself is immoral.
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Large amounts of undeveloped land, a finite resource , have been covered by roads and built development.
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The habitat of an animal population offers only finite resources for its use.
great
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The man had to have great financial resources and staying power to follow the Girl if she went on tour.
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Glastonbury Tor and Avebury Where later societies put great resources into fortification the Neolithic people built monuments.
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Here it was effectively a form of non-elected local government, which had access to greater resources than Glasgow District Council.
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Exposure to a variety of past bosses seemed a great resource for the managers.
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We will continue to extend City Challenge and allocate a greater proportion of resources by competitive bidding.
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A great resource often remained an unrealized potential for weeks or months after completion.
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What is needed now is far greater resources , both physical and human, in order that this ideal can be realised.
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Ultimately, this popular support proved to be his greatest resource .
human
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His intellectual approach to the management of human resources seems to have made matters worse.
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The vice president of human resources , Sam Smith, had brought the game with him.
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Several have human resources consultancies, while Eversheds recently set up a risk management consultancy.
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In other organizations, the chief human resources official serves as top management for the briefing.
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Geoff Pye is director of human resources , Forte Restaurants.
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We have to be visible in our support of human resource professionals as they attempt to deal with AIDS-related problems.
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What I had seen of Czechoslovakia was a society which encouraged a miserable waste of human resources .
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George, 41, brings more than 14 years of experience in human resources and as an attorney specializing in employment issues.
important
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This augurs well for the future and underlines the truth that music as a universal language is an important resource for ecumenism.
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More important , new resources were available to help meet those demands.
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The existence of these sets provides an important sociolinguistic resource for inner-city speakers, and their survival must surely depend on this.
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Water, the most obvious and important resource , was not an immediate problem.
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Data is a very important resource of the business.
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Flows become more important than resources .
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But substantial progress is being made and the most important resources of all, expertise and know-how, are now becoming available.
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However, water is the single most important resource standing between you and panic.
limited
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Moreover, departmental rivalries are endemic in the style of central government whereby competitive bids are made for limited financial resources .
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We think that power is a limited resource , and if one person has it then another one can't.
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This poses enormous problems for developing countries with severely limited educational resources , especially in the rural areas of those countries.
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Inevitably, this has brought them into competition for limited resources with the other activities of the polytechnics and colleges.
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This principle is warmly supported because it rightly treats the coast as a limited and special resource .
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The basic ecological problem of limited resources remains.
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The time has come for Britain to cut its military spending and begin to use its limited resources for our real needs.
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The second is that limited resources should not be used for this patient.
local
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It was therefore possible to staff the area studies program largely from local resources .
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Those who may need further evaluation are referred to local treatment resources .
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Kemira's system is called Loris, or local resource information system.
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Many Army garrisons have no choir and rely a good deal on local resources , especially overseas.
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Husbandry was so neglected the population could not feed itself from local resources .
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They know that there are no alternatives they can suggest because of the lack of local resources .
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It will draw up these plans in the light of national policies and local priorities and resources .
mineral
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Yet many of these countries are rich in organic and mineral resources .
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By all accounts, they also are rich in mineral resources .
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Branch lines were arranged to tap either mineral resources or new areas of settlement.
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On Earth, no mineral resource with such a low concentration has ever been mined for its own sake.
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The largest mineral resource deliberately sterilized by the process was the Windy Craggy copper property in the remote northwestern corner of B.C.
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The three central problems are energy, mineral resources , and food.
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This detailed knowledge of land formations should help geologists find mineral resources and evaluate geologic hazards such as earthquake zones.
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The Programme is focussed on world mineral resources , production, trade and use.
national
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A database also exists as a national resource of innovative practice and ideas.
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All pre-cious national resources are lighted this way.
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Clearly, national union resources on their own will not be sufficient to deal with this problem.
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The funding to do anything, however, must in the long run derive from national resources .
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There are few important national resources that are entirely exempt from economic transnational practices.
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To provide a national resource for the training of social researchers in specific research skills.
natural
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But can we really afford to take such risks with our limited space and natural resources in Britain?
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Those homes were determined by the location of natural resources and the possession of capital.
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Imperialism focused on one or two natural resources , thus creating a homogeneous agricultural proletariat, all doing the same labouring job.
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Modern products simply use fewer natural resources .
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The major sectors witnessing recovery have been the shipping and the natural resources sectors.
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The world is still rich with natural resources that could be reshaped by your creative mind.
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Not only do they consume more natural resources , they also produce more pollution.
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The state owns the land, the natural resources , the factories, the machines, and so on.
precious
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Over the next few years, we're going to have to change our attitude to this precious resource .
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People embody intelligence, by far the most precious resource in the universe and one in terribly short supply.
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On this basis, precious resources have been allocated to mass literacy campaigns all over the Third World.
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Smart governments know that by allowing trade, nations gently coerce their citizens to shift precious resources from low-productivity to high-productivity industries.
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And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource .
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He was used to taking his time and not seeing every instant as a precious resource .
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They began to suspect that time would be one of their most precious resources .
renewable
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The basic challenge for sustainable agriculture is to maximise the use of locally-available and renewable resources .
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Trees are a renewable resource that when managed properly can sustain our needs indefinitely.
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Do we aggressively develop renewable resources ?
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Paper Association, which points out that paper-producing wood is a renewable resource .
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The alternative is a small-scale industry, based on renewable resources - but designing this requires chemical expertise too.
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Today, very late, we are coming to accept the fact that the harvest of renewable resources must be controlled.
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Assessing those effects of global change which will be large scale and cause major modifications to both renewable and non-renewable resources .
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Data in essence were a free and renewable resource contributed by members of the cooperative and cooperatives like them around the world.
scarce
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Both countries rely on the river for scarce water resources .
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Capital is not the scarce resource it once was.
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At the same time others may, through overfunding, be absorbing an unfair amount of scarce resources . 2.
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Then competition for scarce resources might favourably select more complex organisms.
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State politics ends up as a perennial battle between squabbling regions for scarce resources .
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Create and focus energy and meaningful language because they are the scarcest resources during periods of change.
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This suggested that the fundamental problem of many working class families was one of scarce resources .
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But Aristotle knew just enough about economies to know that time was a scarce resource .
valuable
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Simply put, it consumes too many valuable resources to be practiced indefinitely.
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If staff are the most valuable resource in a surveying practice, then accommodation and equipment will rank second.
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The managers generally failed to take advantage of a potentially valuable resource , their immediate superiors.
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The commitment of teachers is the most valuable resource that a school can have.
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This strategic approach aims to optimise information and technology as valuable resources to achieve the key business objectives of the corporation.
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The modern service provides the busy and prosperous County in the 1990s with quality care and valuable resources .
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The agency is a valuable resource to meet staffing shortfalls or an unexpected increase in workload.
■ NOUN
allocation
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The management of resource allocation involves giving attention to all these matters and how they affect roles at different hierarchical levels.
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Deciding on optimal resource allocations for different research projects is a serious issue.
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Proposals for resource allocation according to quality of teaching as well as research endeavour are undoubtedly overdue.
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The first move has been in converting to a project-based resource allocation system rather than funding an overall area of activity.
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The final perspective upon resource allocation is by age group.
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The presumption is that resource allocation will be improved upon by this type of government activity.
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Such a pattern of resource allocation is called a Pareto optimum.
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We stress the evils of idleness and bad resource allocation which were relevant to efforts to increase output a century ago.
centre
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The number of people in the catchment area of the resource centre who now seek residential care has dropped dramatically.
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The Centre maintains a documentary resources centre and has recently set up a national ethnic minority statistical database.
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The learning resources centre serves teachers and learners alike.
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Also historical resource centre and family history department.
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The Institute offers facilities for computer-assisted learning, as well as a self-access centre , library and teachers' resource centre.
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There will also be an Internet resource centre for analytical scientists.
information
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Job seekers who lack the education to use information resources effectively are at a disadvantage.
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This may contribute to the organisation missing major opportunities to manage the records element of the information resource strategically.
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Information brokerages dispatch agents capable of information resource gathering, negotiating deals, and performing transactions.
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New legislation is needed that is mindful of the value of electronic information resources to future researchers.
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His 10-point information policy stresses free access, establishment of information resource centres and public access to data banks.
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Staff require access to most information resources in order to answer enquiries.
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Background Awareness among historians of the changing character of contemporary information resources is limited.
management
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Where ownership is agreed, responsibility for resource management can be supported by law, and management is generally possible.
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Human resource management emerged in the 1980s to compensate for these shortcomings.
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They waxed lyrical on the virtues of introducing business-like methods and improving resource management .
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This does not mean that it is simply an exercise in resource management .
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Schools have always been involved in issues of resource management such as the allocation of capitation allowances.
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The consultancy is to investigate possible applications of artificial intelligence to information resource management .
water
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Both countries rely on the river for scarce water resources .
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Several large water resource projects are currently being planned while criticism is most in evidence.
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Follow up geophysical work has been done at selected sites to assess what water resources are actually present.
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Drainage had already leached away much of the water resources of the Great Plains grain belt.
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A land use plan is to be produced providing guidelines for protecting water resources , developing tourism and promoting ecological agriculture.
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The law also gives the Army Corps of Engineers new power to protect water resources throughout the country.
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In 1986-88 steps were taken to rationalise the use of water resources .
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As populations grow, pressure will grow on water resources both from rivers and from artesian wells.
■ VERB
allocate
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The rankings guide Britain's four higher education funding councils in allocating resources .
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He is a selfish, competitive fighter who is totally calculating about how he allocates his time and resources .
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Are markets a good way to allocate scarce resources ?
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Budgets are financial plans used to estimate future requirements and organize and allocate operating and capital resources effectively.
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In terms of funding, there's going to have to be some political decision as to how we allocate those resources .
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The operating system is the set of instructions that allocate resources and order tasks within a computer.
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In straitened times, group directors will face tough decisions about allocating resources between divisions.
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In short, here is a service which yields substantial benefits but for which the market would allocate no resources .
concentrate
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Thus, it leaves room for poor countries with well-distributed resources and rich countries with concentrated resource distributions.
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The desire to concentrate power and resources .
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Attempts to do something about the problem have to concentrate on underground resources .
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More often a funding agency will concentrate its resources in a few areas.
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The first decision was clearly whether it made sense to concentrate all our resources behind the two core businesses, without foods.
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For we concentrated entirely on resources internal to the individual rule-follower, on things which a solipsist could point to.
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This would allow dermatologists to concentrate resources on patients who need the technical support available in hospitals.
divert
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Local NGOs thus divert resources and personnel out of the public health services.
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Local economic development strategies divert attention and resources of government away from direct efforts to resolve social problems. 7.
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For years Dieter had diverted resources away from the army and into his own pocket.
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This emphasis tends to divert scarce financial resources from true development objectives.
exploit
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This indeed has been the case ever since self-replicating molecular assemblages evolved to exploit finite resources .
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But it managed to reach them, convert them, link them to its cities, and exploit their resources .
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What seems to have been crucial was an ability to survive cooling temperatures and, perhaps, to exploit unusual food resources .
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Thus, female orangutans choose to live alone in strict territories, the better to exploit their scarce food resources .
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Rights to exploit northern marine resources are only slightly less clear.
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It was obliged to exploit its own resources , spiritual as well as material.
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And without the right materials it is difficult to exploit the resource to the full.
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It is immediately apparent from this matrix that most of our information resources lack efficient means for exploiting those resources.
limit
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It is perfectly obvious that the choices made by creative social actors are limited by the practical resources available to them.
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CO2 is the accepted limiting resource for the biosphere.
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Licensed dealers trade on a scale that is only limited by their own resources .
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They had too much work to do in too little time with imperfect information and limited resources .
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The programs are simply too expensive, too specialized for their demands to be met from limited resources .
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We learned too how limited the managers resources were for adjusting to their work.
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Did the residents of different villages cooperate or compete for limited resources ?
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Education received what stimulus limited resources would allow, particularly primary education in the departments.
need
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It would need management resources , and some members would have to reduce their commitment to general medical services.
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Economic costs are the payments which must be made to secure and retain the needed amounts of these resources .
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Energy, imagination and enthusiasm will be needed to bring under-used resources back into action either for school or community use.
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The police need both resources and practices.
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Some capital projects obviously need current resources to run them.
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We need resources to pay those six players.
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A campaigning approach is needed to seek better resources and develop greater understanding.
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In what order do we need these resources , and how much do we need?
pool
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Furthermore, if one of the females becomes too dominant they can pool their male resources to put her in her place.
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Usually they pool their financial resources and their business acumen.
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The obligation to pool and share resources with one's kin would be felt differently by women and men.
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Many companies are pooling their resources and talents through alliances and mergers with other companies to make the electronic marketplace a reality.
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We pooled our knowledge and resources and formed our own company.
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Through the securities market, corporations can pool the financial resources of extremely large numbers of people.
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It is even cheaper to pool your resources with four or five other bands and put together a composite album.
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Like pooling our resources and that.
provide
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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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The belt provides vast material resources , vast amounts of solar power, and vast elbow room.
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The existence of these sets provides an important sociolinguistic resource for inner-city speakers, and their survival must surely depend on this.
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By providing them with resources , we can help our fathers be both better dads and better employees.
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Where the Government propose alternatives to custody, they must provide the resources to make them work.
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That alone will provide the resources that are essential if we are to build a steadily more prosperous society.
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This booklet goes some way to providing a resource .
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The vertical columns of Table 10.2 represent the department providing the resources and the horizontal rows the projects and activities using them.
use
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The host software interfaces with the native Unix spooler to allow the workstation to use its own printing resources .
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It involves wondering how to use hard-won resources to achieve something meaningful.
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Genomecenter officials investigated, and found that Hughes was using government resources to perform genetic studies on test-tube embryos.
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The therapeutic response must be tailored to these needs if we are economically and effectively to use our resources .
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Mobilized groups use their political resources to affect the decision.
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While this might have been expected, neither did it explore alternative ways of allowing mineworkers to use its educational resources .
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Modern products simply use fewer natural resources .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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important educational resources
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The police used every available resource to track down the killer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But each country will have to look at its own resources and solutions.
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Capital is not the scarce resource it once was.
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Making insurance compulsory would - they say - not only free Health Service resources, but guarantee freedom of choice.
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Our people are clearly our key resource .
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Perhaps purchasers or providers elsewhere would not be prepared to devote the necessary resources to involving service users in this way.
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The Coconino, at least, has discovered that the public constitutes one of its best enforcement resources.
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Try any one of the resources suggested in these chapters.
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Why don't we develop a resources network among our graduates?
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A major focus was the problem of how to resource a strategy for new local services.
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London needs the current establishments of beds, and needs to be able to resource them fully.
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No one person or department can resource the company's marketing effort.
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Secondly, the opportunity exists to reassess the rational or political approaches to resource management practice.
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The answer lies in the inadequacy of current training provision to resource these imminent training requirements.
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What moral principles are relevant to resource allocation in the context of the technological imperative?