adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
adults
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They went from house to house and signed up all able-bodied adults for work assignments.
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The budget would soften a provision that limits able-bodied adults without children to three months of food stamps in any 36-month period.
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Would allow each county to decide how to serve able-bodied adults who do not qualify for other programs.
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It would require able-bodied adults to work after being on welfare two years.
man
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That means our discussion programmes, for example, should not simply consist of white able-bodied men .
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In 1903 the Poplar Guardians leased for one year a new workhouse specifically for the use of able-bodied men .
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The school ethos was mainly concerned with turning out well-educated, potential wives of professional able-bodied men .
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Today every able-bodied man is liable to serve at the front - in a war in which casualties are sickeningly high.
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Every able-bodied man employed by the new company was eager to lend a hand with the new buildings.
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Daddy was the only able-bodied man on our farm.
people
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There are almost as many varieties of holidays available for the disabled as for able-bodied people .
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But disabled people believe the biggest obstacles they face are mental ones-the prejudices and thoughtlessness of able-bodied people.
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So, the history of the portrayal of disabled people is that disabled people are portrayed as flawed able-bodied people.
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I can compete with able-bodied people .
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Disabled people , in particular, often have a greater degree of self-sufficiency than many able-bodied people however.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Disabled students face different problems from their able-bodied friends.
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Every able-bodied man should have the opportunity to work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For example, one individual's aggressive behaviour was ascribed to his loss of able-bodied friends following impairment.
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In 1903 the Poplar Guardians leased for one year a new workhouse specifically for the use of able-bodied men.
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It should go without saying that your needs and expectations are the same as those of able-bodied students.
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The budget would soften a provision that limits able-bodied adults without children to three months of food stamps in any 36-month period.
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The smith was invoking the part of the Elizabethan Poor Law which required the parish to assist the able-bodied to work.
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They went from house to house and signed up all able-bodied adults for work assignments.
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This service has been a boon to all who use it, pensioners, disabled and able-bodied residents.