I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
adult education (= for adults )
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They run adult education classes at the local community college.
adult education
an adult learner
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Many adult learners also work full-time.
consenting adult
infant/child/maternal/adult mortality
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an appallingly high infant mortality rate number of babies who die
responsible adult/citizen
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It’s time you started acting like a responsible adult.
the adult population
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A third of the adult population pay no tax at all.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
healthy
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By implication, the healthy female is not the healthy adult .
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In a healthy adult the amount lost in this way is negligible. 2.
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It isn't dangerous to a healthy adult or child, but it can be harmful to a foetus.
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Figure 2.7 shows the typical patterning of sleep through the night, as shown by a healthy adult .
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They compared the finger and palm prints of 64 healthy adult males and 90 males with duodenal ulcers.
mature
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Piaget was not the first to draw our attention to the fact that children's behaviour is different from mature adult behaviour.
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Nobody told you to flirt with me like a grown mature responsible adult man would do.
responsible
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They recognize that their overall goal is to launch their child into the world, as an independent and responsible young adult .
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Nobody told you to flirt with me like a grown mature responsible adult man would do.
young
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Both videos are sparkling situation comedies written especially for adult and young adult learners.
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Q: My 8-year-old has shown an interest in young adult horror books.
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Haas, now a gangly young adult , appears to still be acting with Amish reserve.
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Depending upon the social circles in which the young adult moves there will be more or less pressure towards getting married.
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This creates a real problem in the life of a young adult .
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That includes more than £150,000 to projects supervising offenders through the young adult offenders grant scheme.
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From the 1840s child and young adult mortality contributed most of the decline.
■ NOUN
education
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On the other hand, there were grave limitations in using existing adult education institutions for radical education and action.
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Elsewhere, urban centres did not experience the anticipated post-war expansion in liberal adult education .
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This category was clearly intended to introduce and promote study opportunities in liberal adult education .
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This has always been one of the basic ingredients of good adult education .
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This latter ideology is in fact one which runs through most of the liberal adult education tradition in Britain.
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Yet community education in working-class communities has not grown to offer a radical alternative to traditional adult education provision.
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Organised adult education groups can be found, and the local library may have details of organised parties and expeditions.
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Does he agree that there is another worry about separating vocational from non-vocational adult education ?
learner
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Both videos are sparkling situation comedies written especially for adult and young adult learners .
life
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Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism.
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Throughout his early adult life he passed from one religious system to another, unable to derive lasting spiritual satisfaction form any.
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The data indicate that dimorphism in adult size may be associated with mortality bias differences brought about by dissimilar adult life styles.
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Born and raised in San Francisco, the 71-year-old Rosenberg has been preaching philanthropy his entire adult life .
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In our own society there is no such clear transition from childhood to adult life .
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A whole adult life in only seventeen years.
male
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In that year the proportion of convicted adult males given a custodial sentence had reached a low of 15 percent.
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On the one hand, Mormonism was partially democratized in that virtually every adult male could be ordained a priest.
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They compared the finger and palm prints of 64 healthy adult males and 90 males with duodenal ulcers.
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The hunters are the half dozen or so experienced adult males in the group.
mortality
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Our model analyses size dimorphism with differential adult mortality .
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From the 1840s child and young adult mortality contributed most of the decline.
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We argue that selection for dwarfism results from reduced intrasexual competition through high differential adult mortality between the sexes.
population
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Higher percentages of the elderly than of the general adult population live in accommodation built before 1919 that is often poorly maintained.
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Together, these 60 million people represent more than one third of the entire adult population .
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As a whole group they are in relative or absolute poverty, in contrast to the general adult population of working age.
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It had a staggering seven hundred thousand members, a figure that counted more than half of the entire adult population .
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This meant that the citizens comprised a quarter or less of the total adult population .
suffrage
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Congressional elections are by universal and compulsory adult suffrage with one-third of the senators elected indirectly.
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All elections are by universal adult suffrage .
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There is a unicameral Legislative Assembly of 70 seats, 62 of which are elected by universal adult suffrage for five years.
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The unicameral legislature, the National Assembly, is also elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage .
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There is a Federal Assembly of 42 members, elected by universal adult suffrage for a five-year term.
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Legislative authority is now vested in a unicameral National Congress, with 100 members elected for five years by universal adult suffrage .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Children cannot be admitted to the museum unless they are accompanied by an adult .
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Prosecutors are seeking to have the 15-year-old defendant tried as an adult .
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Since I left school, my parents have started to treat me like an adult .
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The cost of the trip is $59 for adults and $30 for children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An adult has a vast array of comparatively complex schemata that permit a great number of differentiations.
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Ann became a Catholic as an adult and entered the book trade working at a Catholic bookshop in Exeter.
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Being responsible for my sons turned me into an adult as had nothing else in the forty years before.
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But when I became an adult , I began to see the importance of those abstract principles in a personal way.
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Children related to him so much because they saw in him an adult who behaved in the way that they did.
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Choice, in almost all its facets, is diminished in the life of an illiterate adult .
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The adult replies: Oh, come on.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
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Many adult children gain great happiness from caring for a much-loved parent in the closing years of their life.
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She had two adult children who lived nearby, and had stopped visiting them as was her usual custom.
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The couple have three adult children , Henrietta, Andreas and Christopher.
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Currently, legal immigrants can sponsor parents, siblings and adult children .
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All of a sudden, they have to address parenting issues and deal with their addicted adult children .
female
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For instance, an adult female will purr while suckling her kittens and when she courts a male.
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Capturing the animals entails shooting the adult females , whose skulls are sold to tourists.
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Overall 15 percent of adult females and 12 percent of males defined themselves as carers.
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Immature females interacted with adult females primarily when the latter were lactating; immature males did so when they were in oestrus.
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Anything, in fact, except a normal, healthy, adult female .
learner
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The problem with adult learners is that they already have strategies for grammatical analysis and can efficiently use context in communication.
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The unit-based certificate is seen as appropriate for adult learners .
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The objective of the Resource Book is to allow your adult learners to pursue their studies in their own time.
life
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In his adult life all these painful thoughts had been buried but still caused a great deal of unhappiness.
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Rhode Island native Charlie spent the better part of his adult life collecting Elvis Presley memorabilia.
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The number of people in this country whose hearing has become impaired in adult life is very large indeed.
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A native of Richmond, he lived much of his adult life bouncing around the West Coast via train or sometimes car.
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Thus the simple but overall goal is that children should grow up properly equipped for adult life .
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For the first time in my adult life , I had played a role that really satisfied me.
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This is one reason why hearing impairment in childhood is totally different from hearing loss in adult life .
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Gradually, the viewer becomes aware that they represent the three key stages in adult life .
male
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Being an adult male , he was at the end of the line for inoculations.
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The adult males move in larger home ranges that are superimposed spatially upon those of the females.
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Airbags, designed for adult males , may punch outward too forcefully for children and small adults.
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Since the population of adult males in Britain is many million, there are obvious savings to be made using these techniques.
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The adult males are dark, the females and young are sandy-brown.
man
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But the officers also found adolescent girls lodged in hostels with adult men and children living without adults to care for them.
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I feel embarrassed, now that I let adult men kneel before me and shine my shoes.
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The incidence of severe pancreatitis discharges among adult men also correlated significantly with the alcohol consumption in the country.
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Tears had run on his cheeks as she had never seen tears coming from an adult man before.
member
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The Council tax is based on the capital value of each property, on the assumption that it contains two adult members .
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All major decisions are taken by a general assembly in which each adult member of a kibbutz has the right to vote.
patient
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Of 61 adult patients with untreated coeliac disease, 57 had abnormal results giving a sensitivity of 0.93.
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These decisions have no application to adult patients .
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Considerable rises in the number of adult patients are forecast by the year 2000.
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Increasingly, adult patients are achieving independence, careers, and impressive educational attainments.
population
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By the summer of 1809 on land and sea, 786,000 men were serving - one in ten of the adult population .
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Significantly, the adult populations in Pembrokeshire and Somerset showed similar ranges of variability.
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The conventional wisdom in the gay community is that 10 percent of the adult population is gay or lesbian.
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They estimate an average annual consumption of 15 litres of whisky per head of the adult population .
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Half of the adult population never fully develops formal operational reasoning.
son
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He has an adult son , David, and is also a Mid Suffolk district councillor.
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She has an adult son and daughter in London.
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He was married with two adult sons .
woman
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The repression can be total in adult women , hence their frigidity.
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The majority are adult women workers in below-average-income families laboring in unskilled jobs, often in the retail sector.
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About 40 percent. of Britain's adult women part-time workers would benefit from Labour's proposal for a minimum wage.
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I use the word consciously, very much aware that it has been used in the past to demean adult women .
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She would listen to him in the way that no adult woman ever would.
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Adults, adult women in particular, are subscribing to this expansionism for themselves without question.
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We can not adopt a parallel assumption about adult women ....
world
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When the parents were home in Avon, they maintained an adult world that often excluded the children.
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Piggy wanted a sign from the adult world as he thought they were civilised even though they were at war.
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Personality formation continues when and if the adolescent begins to adapt the self to the adult world .
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With her infant's intuition, Victoria knew that major shifts were taking place in the adult world above her head.
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Yet we systematically deny these individuals the opportunity to engage in meaningful ways with the adult world .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Adult magazines in shops must be kept where children cannot see them.
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It was thought that the skull was too small and light to belong to an adult male.
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Over 30% of the adult population were illiterate.
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Soon the skin of the pupa splits open, and the fully-formed adult butterfly emerges.
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The book is intended for adult readers.
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The disease can be very serious in adult animals.
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The government has announced plans to increase spending on adult education.
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You need to deal with your problems in an adult way.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But escalation is not usually associated with adult sexuality.
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Forman gives us a version of Flynt as an impish, natural man, the Bart Simpson of the adult publishing world.
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From what I saw, the repression all seemed to originate externally, from parents and the rest of adult society.
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In his adult life all these painful thoughts had been buried but still caused a great deal of unhappiness.
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R: Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
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Some former course members have since obtained fulltime teaching posts in adult education.
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Ten adult elephants - each with a number painted on it - were successfully moved and released in this fashion.
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They attempt to adopt adult word forms and use them with increasing consistency from one occasion to the next.