adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a legal/political/technical etc obstacle
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Despite technical obstacles, scientists at NASA are considering the project.
a technical problem
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The delay was caused by technical problems.
a technical term
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‘Gender’ is a technical term in grammar.
an agricultural/secretarial/technical etc college
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I wanted a job in farm management so I went to agricultural college.
an intellectual/physical/technical etc challenge
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I love the physical challenge of climbing.
from a scientific/technical point of view
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This book was the first to study language from a scientific point of view.
medical/academic/technical etc staff
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We would like to thank all the medical staff at Broadgreen Hospital.
medical/scientific/technical expertise
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How can an individual without medical expertise make such a decision?
scientific/technical knowledge
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the practical application of scientific knowledge
technical assistance
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Most of our time is spent providing technical assistance to companies.
technical college
technical difficulties
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The flight was delayed due to technical difficulties.
technical help
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I might need some technical help understanding the instructions.
technical know-how
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No other company had the technical know-how to deal with the disaster.
technical limitations
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This odd effect on the film results from technical limitations in the video equipment.
technical mastery
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The technical mastery of the musicians is impressive.
technical personnel
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800 technical personnel do the design and development of software.
technical skills
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Good technical skills are not enough.
technical support
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Maybe you’d better try calling tech support.
technical/legal/political barriers
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Most of the technical barriers have been solved.
technical/linguistic/managerial etc competence
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There are many careers that require a high degree of linguistic competence.
technical/scientific/legal/medical etc jargon
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documents full of legal jargon
technical/slight/last-minute hitch
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In spite of some technical hitches, the first program was a success.
technical/specialized vocabulary
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The instructions were full of technical vocabulary.
the technical side
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Gregory works on the technical side, liaising with the sound and lighting people.
the technical/practical/financial etc aspects
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The technical aspects of the movie were incredible.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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Eleven came through to the jump off, over a highly technical track that caught out both Milton and Werra.
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When the National Security Agency trains its agents in the highly technical art of eavesdropping, they naturally need to practice.
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The exclusion is therefore highly technical .
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Our programs spanned the gamut of command and control systems, and were highly technical .
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They kept details of programs in their heads, and always explained procedures in highly technical jargon.
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This could apply to trade advertising, or business-to-business advertising as it is called now, particularly if this is highly technical .
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In addition to a highly technical assessment document, there is a duty to produce a summary that the public can read.
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In conclusion, remember that consumer credit is a highly technical subject.
more
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This research will be discussed later, in the context of discussing Freud's more technical theoretical formulations.
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They have returned, in more technical terms, to a serious concern with ontology.
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The second mistake was more technical and more secret.
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At some point, though, baseball becomes a more technical and complicated game.
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Now we have to do more fine dusting and it's a lot more technical than it was all those years ago.
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For managers of audiovisual, graphics, and other more technical activities, postsecondary technical school training is preferred.
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He is assisted by two or more technical assessors also appointed by the Lord Chancellor.
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For a more technical description contact Aegean at the number given.
■ NOUN
advice
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It's always wise to follow the technical advice offered by paving manufacturers when preparing the foundations of your patio.
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CompuServe is serious, a great place for financial information or technical advice about your computer.
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The delay has been put down to the need for more technical advice on issues such as geographic tracking.
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We also provided political consulting, technical advice , and volunteers.
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The contents may vary from technical advice to general policy pronouncements.
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The Department of the Environment and Ministry of Agriculture are providing technical advice for the project.
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They received invaluable technical advice from architect Colin Humphrey.
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Teesside operations put up £2,000 - half the cost of the special portable pump and generator - and provided technical advice .
aspect
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Although we will not examine the technical aspects of these standards, it is important to identify briefly the most important initiatives.
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Court of Appeals judges considered the bias issue and also raised concerns about technical aspects of Jackson's ruling.
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An investigation of this kind requires knowledge and experience of the technical aspects and considerable organisational capability.
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What is needed is a balanced measure incorporating the human, economic and technical aspects of the technology transfer process.
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Both Ashton and MacMillan take the technical aspects of their choreography very seriously.
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The company said it is expanding the description of certain technical aspects of the shareholderrights plan it adopted Jan. 4.
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Likewise, economists have discussed at length technical aspects of economic policy, particularly macroeconomic policy.
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Those technical aspects are reflected not only in the wins and losses, but the style of play.
assistance
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In recent years, Western governments have increased their technical assistance through NGOs.
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I played with a few of the new titles, with lots of technical assistance from some computer literati.
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Today, the independent foundation provides technical assistance and support to more than 200 Academies across the country.
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A full range of audio-visual equipment and technical assistance is available.
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In California and Florida, state funding and technical assistance for career academies have greatly expanded the number of such programs statewide.
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They form part of Britain's continuing provision of aid and technical assistance to developing countries.
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Evans and Brown estimate that $ 20, 000 has been spent on materials for the mural and technical assistance .
change
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Added to this, capital flows are important vectors of technical change .
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Great technical changes , stimulated by wartime demand, led to increased production.
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Reports on the Centre's work on the acceptability of technical change were completed in 1985.
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It argued that work is continually de-skilled and degraded through the interaction of technical change and international patterns of capital accumulation.
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Any of the following options would effectively reduce inappropriate use than would any technical change in legislation.
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The consequences of technical change are influenced at least as much as by the objectives that managers seek to achieve in introducing change.
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Turning away from forecasts and towards theories about the relationship between technical change and employment we find a number of conflicting views.
college
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Some were from a local technical college and were taken for short periods.
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He attended a technical college for engineering studies before moving to Los Angeles in 1982.
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For most students education in the universities and professional and technical colleges promised access to a relatively privileged position in society.
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Ohio has viewed the involvement of community and technical colleges in tech prep as critical.
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By championing the program, the technical colleges have garnered political stature and marketability.
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Determined not to re-enter blind institution life, I headed for the nearby technical college who wouldn't have me either.
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I had two more children and taught higher national diploma courses in the evenings at the local technical college .
competence
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The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience.
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Still, they had been promoted primarily for their technical competence , not their management or interpersonal skill.
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There are certain opportunities that only occur to organisations with the necessary technical competence , market position or trading relationships.
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The managers did come to see that acquiring managerial competence actually meant sacrificing some of their technical competence.
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As a result of increasing specialisations and technical competence , delegation of authority has increased.
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A lack of technical competence shouted from the report, asserted Cook.
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Appointments are rarely made on the basis of professional or technical competence alone.
detail
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Buckland is wrong to dismiss technical details .
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The flying test was followed by an intensive oral examination on technical details .
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They did not have time to immerse themselves in technical detail .
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Chapter 2 goes into all the technical details .
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In it, he shows perfect ease with number, dimension, and technical detail .
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His inventory provides further technical details of the art of glassmaking and also reveals the extent of his coal-mining interests.
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As far as I know, he does nothing but act as adviser to the priesthood on technical details .
development
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Other technical developments helped to change the pattern of interest in Nature.
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The prototype was in the vanguard of technical development .
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John Percivel, technical development director.
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Ashton, like Stravinsky, took into account the technical developments which had taken place.
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Will the Act remain effective in the face of technical development ?
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Fortunately this is much easier than explaining the latest technical developments .
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For some centuries the first reason seemed simple, though it has been greatly complicated by the most recent technical developments .
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The millwrights and other inventors who were making these technical developments were not operating in a vacuum.
difficulty
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Then the runners arrive and the sustained technical difficulty takes over the interest.
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There were a number of technical difficulties with the vote count.
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Are there technical difficulties which would bother any members of the group - things like scrambling sections or exposed ridges?
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The technical difficulty in bringing the changes to fruition says something about how dramatic they are.
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We've had a few technical difficulties with the computer, or rather our printer has had trouble with it.
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However, the interdependence of hardware and software poses formidable technical difficulties to running programs so transferred.
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The failure of studies to show this clearly is probably related to the technical difficulties involved in measuring meal stimulated acid secretion.
director
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He was subsequently appointed director , Reprocessing Engineering Division, and became technical director and also a main board member in 1984.
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The technical director is the link between the control room and what goes out over the air.
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The technical director feels there is a need for a special unit for total co-ordination and monitoring.
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The technical director operates a switcher which looks like a control board with a panel of buttons, slides, and switches.
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Patrick Head, the technical director at Williams, is not easily impressed.
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Having switched to engineering, he became technical director of Blease Anaesthetics Equipment and two years later was appointed managing director.
education
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Some authorities already provided technical education .
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In my experience, most specialists see their strengths in terms of their technical education and expertise, not their managerial skills.
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An enlivened understanding is needed of education's role in support of the economy, most especially in development of vocational and technical education .
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After 1926 the accent was to lie on the development of technical education .
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Apart from his interest in technology and technical education , he had an enduring love of the arts, especially music and painting.
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Several decades of education , including technical education, have had an impact on productivity.
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Mr. Stevens I congratulate my hon. Friend on the £25 million technology schools initiative to further technical education in schools.
expertise
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This has opened up new areas of employment for actuaries, frequently involving communication skills as well as technical expertise .
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It also identified a list of competencies that it said rivaled technical expertise in their importance.
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They also require the technical expertise relevant to a particular branch of engineering.
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Success in such positions requires more than technical expertise .
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Ashton demonstrated Harlequin's technical expertise when he was transformed into Colas, a farmer, dancing with his shepherd's crook.
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The former skills were more consistent with their notions of being sales leader; they were sharing their technical expertise with others.
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Buyers have different backgrounds, technical expertise and intelligence levels.
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Jim Wolf brings the technical expertise .
experts
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We look to authorities, the government and technical experts to provide answers through rules, laws, technical specifications, knowledge.
information
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Bertelli is particularly good at citing the available technical information about the paintings.
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And technical information central to the design of the mills proved fatally inaccurate.
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Other ads deliver strictly technical information , without the sizzle.
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These are just three examples from our menu of courses combining technical information and management strategy.
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These groups were fault diagnosis, access to technical information , and maintenance planning and scheduling.
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Bureaus will also be self-sufficient in respect of the technical information needed for industrial policy-making.
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Bulletin Board Access technical information , utilities, templates, drives and other software via our Bulletin Board.
innovation
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The Engineers School is responsible for many of the Empire's technical innovations over the past few centuries.
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In the wake of a number of major technical innovations , acceptable limited of routine and stability were again established.
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Invention is best treated as the subset of patentable technical innovations .
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Secondly, technical innovation may occur directly in the factory or workshop without any prior research expenditure and possibly as pure serendipity.
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Their attitudes are clearly a significant factor in whether the technical innovation is successful.
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Traditional art history would include Bonnard for his technical innovations and largely marginalise Rodchenko for his politics and photography.
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It is in this context that many of the early technical innovations in the textile industry developed.
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Prior to the technical innovations by the Coal Board, miners had been used to working in small autonomous groups or teams.
issue
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Its aims are to promote awareness of X and provide a forum for the discussion of technical issues .
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These are not the technical issues of psychotherapy or medical management; they are human ones.
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Produced by the Corporate Communication Service, the quarterly publication focuses on key technical issues of significance to industry.
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This workshop discussed the various economic and technical issues pertaining to the commercialization of the Internet.
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But behind these technical issues there were profound policy differences which became steadily greater as Left-wing influence increased in the Labour Party.
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Three technical issues have to be considered first: How reliable does the system have to be?
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But it is exactly the complicated, technical issue that will make or break Kyoto.
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To them this is not a technical issue .
jargon
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They kept details of programs in their heads, and always explained procedures in highly technical jargon .
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All they have to do is to hold out against substandard systems and apply pragmatic criteria in the face of technical jargon .
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A major obstacle to understanding is the use of technical jargon which is unintelligible to the buyer.
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There was more, but it was technical jargon about his physique, state of health, last known meal and so on.
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The managers spoke in cryptic, allusive utterances, using technical jargon that was opaque to her.
knowledge
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They emphasized the technical knowledge and skills they had to impart to these people.
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The course aims to develop the technical knowledge and ability to make decisions about appropriate methods and strategies for livestock development.
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But in the modern workplace, we need people with high-level academic and technical knowledge .
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Critics of the democratizing vision of the corporation contended that specialized technical knowledge would substantially enhance the power of management.
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The best integrate high-level academic and technical knowledge and teach at least some content in context.
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Vanessa Britton suggests some courses to improve your technical knowledge .
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As they learned to delegate, their technical knowledge and ability grew obsolescent.
language
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One person's jargon is another's technical language .
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I write reams of dry prose with appropriately technical language and what my colleagues consider scientific consequence.
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In more technical language , its position and momentum can both simultaneously be known.
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You can use technical language for the expert which is not appropriate for the layperson.
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The ambiguity of layman's oral language should not be lost in specialised technical language.
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However, technical vocabulary is one thing and technical language is another.
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When students come across it they assume it is some sort of technical language .
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Includes functional, professional, social, technical language and situations, together with associated body language.
matter
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Those are wide-ranging and sometimes technical matters .
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The department's wide expertise in technical matters can be drawn upon more easily.
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In February the editor made four new criticisms on technical matters , which we dealt with in a third revision.
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Although very weak, he was anxious to discuss technical matters , among which were possible revisions to Chapter 6.
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The layout of roads was a technical matter for surveyors and engineers, though new highways had town-planning significance.
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Wright, who lent him money that he never repaid, continued to consult him on technical matters after he left Derby.
personnel
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Of the foreign technical personnel , about fifty percent are doctors.
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Key resources are technical personnel and aircraft spare parts which account for the largest share of the maintenance budget.
point
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It's certainly tougher than Bohème or Tosca from a technical point of view.
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I put a technical point in baby language, and I forget these guys have been to more arbitrations than I have.
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Entries will be judged not on technical points but on the use of colour, space and understanding of the environmental theme.
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That may sound like a technical point .
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One last technical point of serendipity.
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First, there is a somewhat technical point .
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Two further rather technical points of interpretation also need to be stressed.
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Trust the Yanks, always covering the technical points .
problem
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He had also to tackle the technical problems of bringing two curriculum systems into one entity.
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However, some technical problems exist.
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Despite its first night technical problem , Les Miserables is expected to enjoy a successful run in Manchester.
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But then it describes technical problems with both and offers little further guidance.
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Design implies change and improvement, solving technical problems and meeting new needs.
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At times it appears large numbers of these new or infrequent voters were confounded by technical problems in the ballot.
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Tom Robb, a teacher of over 30 years, can lend advice on may technical problems .
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I think about him a lot, though, when I am faced with technical problems .
qualification
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Volunteers with technical qualifications were accepted for the Engineers, Ordnance and the Service Corps.
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Because MI6 possessed no one with any technical qualifications to analyse the Oslo Report it was rejected as worthless and ignored.
reason
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For technical reasons it was not always possible to obtain good results for the three probes on tissue from the same patient.
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But equally important are two other technical reasons for carefully outlining your proposed sample.
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Some flights may stop at an airport enroute for technical reasons , e.g. refuelling.
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When a site gets listed, you want to make sure it does so with good technical reasons .
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There is, however, a need for a further continuation order, for entirely technical reasons .
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The role ultimately defeats her for a technical reason .
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There were sound technical reasons for keeping the regular cast no smaller than four.
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There are social, economic and technical reasons for this.
school
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The ideology of merit had elevated the grammar school above technical schools, technical schools above secondary moderns.
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Besides, there are vocational and technical schools to deal with job training for kids not destined for college.
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Courses and programs in cost estimating techniques and procedures are offered by many technical schools , junior colleges, and universities.
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So girls in many areas had less chance of a grammar or technical school place than boys.
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She found a technical school promising to get people into the travel business.
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About 9 out of 10 were in educational services in elementary, secondary, and technical schools and colleges and universities.
service
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A nationwide sales force and technical services support can help with any application.
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Integrated business units have been established, each accountable for manufacturing, sales, technical service , profitability and cash flow.
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In 1989, he was promoted to project engineer, and, in 1995, he was promoted to technical services engineer.
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This will provide a world class source of environmental consultancy and technical services .
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He was an employee of DynCorp, a technical services contractor based in Reston, Va.
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He was eventually put in charge of the twenty people comprising the explosives technical services department and got his first taste of real management.
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Some have led the way and have used the private sector to deliver a range of professional and technical services .
side
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In future economic efficiency was likely to assume as much importance as the technical side .
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On the technical side , remedial work is in many cases already on the way.
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To produce such an all embracing package would obviously be a task of considerable magnitude from the technical side alone.
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She explains how she started as an announcer, then turned to the technical side .
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He writes exceptionally well about the technical side of filmmaking, something few journalists really understand.
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The technical side is, at best, ropy.
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Gregory works on the technical side , liaising with the sound and lighting people and drawing up set lists.
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The film has some drawbacks on the technical side .
skill
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Worm-lions, however, also demonstrate another technical skill .
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Sometimes technical skills are more important than investigative ones.
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Gasifiers require considerable technical skills for operation and maintenance.
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It would use new methods to teach traditional academic subjects and equip young people with technical skills .
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The technical skill of the house martin enables it to construct gravity-defying mud nests beneath the eaves of houses.
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Recruiters also are targeting community college graduates with technical skills .
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Some of the finest examples of technical skill are to be found among birds.
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And its technical skill , vast financial reserves and marketing savvy give it the potential to overcome any early disadvantage.
staff
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In the health service, job evaluation systems already cover ancillary, administrative and technical staff .
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The preparation intensified earlier this month as singers and technical staff arrived and started rehearsals.
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Annoying, too, for a company who have employed 40 additional technical staff in recent months.
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Cherwell Scientific's technical staff supplies prompt and local expertise free to our customers.
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Fine Craft Design staff are all practitioners of their various subjects; experienced technical staff support each discipline.
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Nowadays his time is spent between his own project work and his team of eight technical staff .
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He gathered about him a technical staff of diverse talents, whom he inspired with an enthusiasm to give of their best.
standard
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They expect other nations to set technical standards and to innovate new markets.
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Determine offences and decide on compliance with technical standards .
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This provides the Institute with a unique influence in the maintenance of technical standards .
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In yet another report, Lord Hunt of Tamworth ignored the vital issue of technical standards for a future cabling system.
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Now there is an open technical standard .
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Subject to this constraint and the firm's other technical standards we must always act in the best interests of our client.
support
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Unlike many other unmetered deals, the price also includes unlimited freephone technical support .
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Programs which compensate farmers with new land on an equitable basis, with credit and technical support , must also be considered.
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Steve Belkin, 32, is technical support manager for a City software house.
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By and large the teams gave each other both moral and technical support .
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The three will cover technical support , research and development; computerised information technology services; and rail advocacy.
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Compaq Computer Corp. enjoys one of the best reputations for technical support in the computer business.
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The technical support line was very helpful, though.
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Verio supports FrontPage hosting customers with fast, reliable service, powerful servers, uninterruptible power and 24x7 technical support.
term
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I now introduce another of Axelrod's evocative technical terms .
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In purely technical terms , this is all but a truism.
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Do not confuse your reader with technical terms or jargon.
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I have purposely avoided the use of technical terms .
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The credibility of your work will suffer severely if key words, such as technical terms or people's names, are misspelled.
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This requires that the student understands the terms used, especially technical terms.
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The technical term is one which concentrates on the fact that any form of ranking constitutes a hierarchy.
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The second, more difficult problem is that of ensuring that your reader understands what your technical terms mean.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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technical experts
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technical training
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a technical foul
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As a quarterback, Elway has excellent technical skills.
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Jurors must deal with many technical legal questions.
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Many books on furniture making are too technical or require artistic skills.
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No one here has the technical knowledge to fix the copier.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And Whitehurst suggested that, when technical instruments produced conflicting results, lab guidelines at times were unclear on how to proceed.
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Both Ashton and MacMillan take the technical aspects of their choreography very seriously.
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He is remembered there for his technical feats.
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In some ways the job had been a good fit, since he was clearly the best technical problem-solver in the organization.
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Other students were trapped between self-reliance and technical dependency.
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The Government's position is that a tax-raising power in the technical sense inevitably means that taxes will be raised.
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The next step is to make technical progress endogenous to the model.