I. adjective
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a commercial bank (= an ordinary bank, or one that deals with large businesses )
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the role of UK commercial banks in the debt crisis
a commercial centre
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Our city is the biggest commercial centre in the country.
a commercial channel (= paid for by people advertising on it )
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On commercial channels they have advertisement breaks.
a commercial product
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They help firms turn good ideas into commercial products.
a commercial proposition (= likely to be financially successful )
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Gold mining is not a commercial proposition here.
a commercial/business enterprise
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If you are setting up your own business enterprise, your bank can help.
a financial/business/commercial district (= where there are a lot of banks and other businesses )
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He works in San Francisco’s financial district.
a financial/commercial/legal etc footing
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The firm started the new year on a stronger financial footing.
a retail/commercial complex (= for shops, businesses, or industries )
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a ten-screen movie theater and retail complex
business/commercial activity
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Internet shopping is a rapidly developing area of business activity.
business/commercial expansion
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These new measures could limit business expansion.
business/commercial instinct
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I have faith in your business instinct.
business/commercial venture
commercial hub
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the commercial hub of the region
commercial property (= buildings used by businesses )
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The bombs caused damage to commercial property.
commercial traveller
commercial/economic exploitation
commercial/economic potential (= the potential to earn money )
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They were quick to recognize the band’s commercial potential.
commercial/economic/financial success
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None of his ideas had any commercial success.
commercial/industrial/economic etc logic
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Reducing your carbon footprint is also backed by good economic logic.
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activity
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His commercial activities centred on the Levant trade, in which he invested heavily until his retirement sometime in the late 1670s.
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One makes bureaucrats criminally liable for giving out trading licenses without proper justification or for unwarranted restrictions on commercial activity .
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In some respects, of course, greater economic and commercial activity did strengthen the regime.
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This ongoing evolution of the Internet has ramifications for the types of commercial activities it can offer.
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This was a society with true leaders of kingdom states within which commercial activities were becoming more institutionalised.
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QQDling v. Anglish for HANDln, to engage in business or commercial activity .
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For example, we must prove the potential of our commercial activities and, particularly, the effectiveness of keeping them together.
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Functions and Dysfunctions Law facilitates commercial activity by providing structures within which it can take place.
application
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The final chapter where the current commercial applications of optical fiber technology are reviewed is very informative.
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But they are thinking about commercial applications for the chanterelle and its close relative, the Tricholoma matsutake.
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Verification: systems developed for legal or commercial applications could include automatic signature verification as a useful part of their functionality.
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Many commercial applications require that the client and server be able to authenticate each other and exchange data confidentially.
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This method is the first of its kind, and the ministry is considering developing it for commercial application .
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The needs of commercial applications will drive the direction of some model-building.
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Scouts are sent around the world to discover genes that may have commercial applications .
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Now his breakthrough is taking the critical step to commercial application .
bank
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Cash shortage All commercial banks were forced to restrict cash withdrawals from April 20 as a result of a shortage of banknotes.
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Reserves traded among commercial banks for overnight use in amounts of $ 1 million or more.
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That in turn has worried the commercial banks that had lent money to the finance houses.
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Talks with commercial bank creditors over two days were reported on June 21 to have failed to produce concrete results.
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Cicero Bank is a New Yorkchartered commercial bank with total assets of $ 26 million and total deposits of $ 21 million.
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The other way is that commercial banks are themselves caught in a vicious squeeze.
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Today, the Bundesbank shifted back to variable-rate securities repurchase agreements for its weekly lending to commercial banks .
break
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In the past, to the horror of soccer purists, broadcasters have cut away from live action for commercial breaks .
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During a commercial break , we met another lovely and somebody who plays defensive back engaged in witty banter.
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Nothing must clash with a commercial break or run into the news.
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They were shown in the commercial break of the 10 p.m.
building
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Many commercial buildings have no natural ventilation.
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Insurance maps of the 10-block area, perhaps the best record of residential and commercial buildings , show few outhouses.
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It should be noted that such allowances are not available on the land element of any commercial building .
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Along Broadway, Grant and Craycroft, among others, single-family homes are being replaced with offices and other commercial buildings .
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Masonry diaphragm walling is a popular form of loadbearing wall construction for leisure and commercial buildings .
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McMillin Cos. of San Diego is developing the 59-acre shopping center with almost 384,000 square feet of commercial buildings .
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Exemption from business rates on industrial and commercial buildings .
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The other concession was that there would be 100 percent capital allowances on both industrial and commercial buildings .
centre
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Portree has long been the commercial centre of the Isle of Skye.
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Yet a one man business for immigrants in the commercial centre of the city was an anachronism.
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Twenty years ago London Road was a busy, thriving commercial centre thronged with shoppers.
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Over the next few hundred years, Tewkesbury remained a busy commercial centre , often ranked only second to Gloucester.
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The church dominates the commercial centre with its clock tower visible from the housing developments on the outskirts.
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It is renowned as a business and commercial centre .
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Things could get especially complicated in Kano, the north's biggest commercial centre .
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Birmingham is less attractive because it has remained the commercial centre of the Midlands.
channel
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The commercial channel had lured away two of its top acts, Morecambe and Wise and Bruce Forsyth.
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At least on commercial channels they have ad breaks for this sort of thing.
company
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The commercial benefits will be gone, and nature will have taught the large commercial companies another lesson.
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Equally there are commercial companies that produce, distribute, and market their product on a global basis.
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Others are run by voluntary bodies, for example churches or charities; or privately by individual owners or commercial companies .
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Table 17-1 shows the average number of mergers perannum of industrial and commercial companies , and the value of the assets involved.
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I must stress we have nothing to do with any commercial company and no costs are involved.
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Open access with a larger number of smaller commercial companies would prove very beneficial to customers in ways not possible today.
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Although this tapestry was commissioned by a commercial company , it is an idea that could easily be tried at home.
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The key to the problems facing Sheffield has been a lack of sponsorship by commercial companies .
contract
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The interpretation of leases A lease of business property is a commercial contract .
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He expected mediations to increase in commercial contract and personal injury cases, including clinical negligence.
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The exchange's rules are subject to the general statutory checks and balances associated with commercial contracts .
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Actions were begun by the employing newspapers alleging nuisance, intimidation, harassment, and interference with commercial contracts .
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He was irate that a public service broadcaster such as S4C should be involved in bidding for a commercial contract .
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They may be asked, for example, to draft and help negotiate important commercial contracts of all kinds.
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Sometimes these disputes may be between large private organizations when companies argue about the terms of a commercial contract .
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Rather, the courts have upheld commercial contracts incorporating the rules of commodity associations.
development
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To achieve this, a new Marina has been established and extensive residential and commercial development are being undertaken.
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It is sited in the middle of the city, surrounded by residential and commercial development .
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Most City firms rent their office space from the big institutions that invest in commercial developments .
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As traffic volumes increase, the demand for office and commercial developments , instead of residential uses, grows.
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Statutory controls should be introduced on industrial and commercial development , and resources made available for the removal of existing inappropriate developments.
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Combined with industrial and commercial developments , it enabled Catalonia to support a population that doubled within the eighteenth century.
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We support the location of new industrial and commercial developments in areas already well-served by good transport infrastructure and public transport.
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This will incorporate retail developments , hotels, houses and half-a-million square feet of commercial development.
enterprise
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It should be noted, too, that most of the experimental schemes have not included commercial enterprises .
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Newspapers and magazines sell space, which is not without its limitations for a commercial enterprise .
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A board was nominated to run each industry as a viable commercial enterprise .
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Few people notice or perhaps care when such inspections are directed at commercial enterprises .
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A commercial enterprise of national value to our successors will have been severely damaged.
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Its purpose, they claimed, was to preserve the area from vandalism and commercial enterprise !
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But this tale of commercial enterprise by academics has, ironically, rebounded on them.
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This is not an entirely commercial enterprise , of course; it is also about people wanting to see one's work.
exploitation
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Much of it is therefore being focused on new developments for commercial exploitation in industry.
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So it should be for the commercial exploitation of the public spectrum.
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Subscription to the list is absolutely free and there is no commercial exploitation or hidden costs.
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Instead of recognising a commercial exploitation , we're invited to see male lust as the corrupting force.
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For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation .
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Otherwise there is no trace, and no commercial exploitation , of the long visit.
market
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Most commercial market research is concerned simply with measuring consumption patterns, and that requires far less accuracy than political research.
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After being primarily a research technology, parallel hardware now seems to be making inroads in the commercial market .
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We will halt the commercial market which is creating a two-tier health service.
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He faded just as fast, losing fans in his core hip-hop audience and never gaining large numbers in more commercial markets .
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Of this sector, electronic parts and components manufacturers made the smoothest transition to commercial markets .
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It now seemed that Watt was well on the way to developing the engine for the commercial market .
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This system, in itself, could have a large impact on the small industrial market , and the commercial market.
paper
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Much of the rise in commercial paper outstanding is a counterpart to the decline in bank lending.
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These lines are used if a company is unable to sell commercial paper , the primary source of short-term funding for corporations.
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New York State plans to sell $ 115 million in bonds this month and $ 140 million in commercial paper in March.
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Seemingly the safest of all securitised corporate lending is the market for commercial paper .
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Disney will pay $ 2 billion in cash, and will raise the other $ 8 billion by issuing short-term commercial paper .
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The rating firm said the company is more reliant on its revolving credit lines because of the elimination of commercial paper .
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A third major source of short-term financing, commercial paper , is available to large firms with high-quality credit ratings.
product
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One of the first commercial products to derive from this biotechnology is likely to be genetically engineered tomatoes.
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Several odor-removing commercial products are available.
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After all, they have to take business decisions and use sport as part of a commercial product .
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The manufacture of aluminum as a commercial product requires enormous quantities of electric power.
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Involvement in a very wide range of chemistry, extending well outside the company's standard commercial product range.
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Surgery has reshaped him into a commercial product for mass consumption.
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Similarly, the transistor took decades to become incorporated into commercial products such as hearing aids, navigational instruments and computers.
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Economists now reckon that commercial products are best treated as though they were services.
property
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He signed the deal in July 1989 - and by September the bottom had fallen out of the London commercial property market.
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Valmark guaranteed the loan with its three commercial properties in Chatsworth, which carried a value of $ 2. 2 million.
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Perhaps they all wanted to invest in commercial property .
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Another is that commercial property is intrinsically less liquid than even distressed third-world debt.
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Whilst training, I worked in three main areas: litigation, commercial property and company commercial.
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Investment in commercial properties in enterprise zones within 10 years of the creation of the zone attracts 100% initial allowance.
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He is joined by Richard Brown who will work in the company's commercial property department in development practice.
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Holiday homes and commercial property have been included among the lots to be auctioned.
purpose
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Appendix 1 is the most endangered list, and animals on it may not be traded for commercial purposes .
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It requires that all eggs broken for commercial purposes be pasteurized and that the breaking process be carried out under continuous inspection.
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Pressed flowers can be used on many other printed objects, and not necessarily for commercial purposes .
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Once requisitioned, vessels originally built for commercial purposes had to be adapted for military ones.
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There are about 600 of them, and they can not be traded for commercial purposes .
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For this genuinely commercial purpose there will be no Revenue objection to the changing of accounting bases or dates.
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People have deliberately encouraged many of these movements, often for commercial purposes .
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If any vessel is being used for commercial purposes cover will not operate unless the Policy has been extended.
radio
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There are fourteen commercial television companies, and a host of commercial radio stations.
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Two commercial radio broadcasters, two television stations and cable networks provide more news.
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In theory, there should be lots of pent-up demand for commercial radio in Britain.
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Local operators hope that, if national commercial radio takes off, some cash will trickle down to them.
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The bill includes proposals for a new television channel, three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.
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By way of exception, the Regulations do not give the Director General powers in relation to commercial radio and television advertisements or to cable advertisements.
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Other strategies in the campaign included large outside hoardings, and a slot on commercial radio during journey-to-work times.
sector
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One of the problems is that once the commercial sector has been legitimated, it is difficult to limit its growth.
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The government believes that the informal, voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision.
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If local authorities are to provide less, then the informal, voluntary and commercial sectors will need to provide more.
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Weisbrod argued that this type of non-profit is most similar to the commercial sector .
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But the lack of finance in all but the commercial sector is inhibiting.
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Under such circumstances it is not surprising to see that the commercial sector can not compete.
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The more private the good, the more likely it is that the commercial sector will provide the additional output demanded.
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Although the voluntary sector still possesses a relative production cost advantage over the commercial sector, this advantage is narrowing.
success
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Share My Lettuce was much more of a commercial success than it was a critical triumph.
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Traditional values and old-fashioned rules of journalism have been thrown overboard in the competitive race for audiences and commercial success .
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On these pages we review some of the recent commercial successes which combine to form the foundation of our new business.
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Nor was the Macintosh a great commercial success initially.
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O2 is an object-oriented database that has yet to make its mark as a commercial success .
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It has been a commercial success , with a 30-second spot selling for as much as $ 185, 000.
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There was a rustle of a sigh from the audience and I began to revise my opinion of her likely commercial success .
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Darnton knows the commercial success of his book may lead to a critical backlash.
television
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Few would now see the introduction of commercial television in 1955 as the threat envisaged by, say, Lord Reith.
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This past spring, parents were treated to two workshops on the good and bad points of commercial television .
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After all most of us are accustomed with commercial television to having our viewing interrupted for advertisement breaks.
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The single-minded mission of commercial television today is to produce audiences for sale to advertisers of consumer goods and services.
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Already highly successful in popular music, dance and commercial television , blacks have found the movies a tougher nut to crack.
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There are fourteen commercial television companies, and a host of commercial radio stations.
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The second most important medium is commercial television , which has consistently maintained about 25% of the total. 7.
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A very much smaller advertising campaign was therefore mounted in the press and on commercial television .
use
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The Claim Form should be carefully checked for information that would indicate that any commercial use is taking place.
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As we mentioned before, this application has been in commercial use for several decades.
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There have been other setbacks-like 160,247 hectares of farmland converted to industrial, residential or commercial uses .
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Encryption technology is seen as a prerequisite for widespread commercial use of computer networks.
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Meanwhile, the development of city centres for business and commercial use is encouraging increased traffic.
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But that does not include commercial use and is subject to local by-laws.
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Its waters formerly turned many a mill wheel on the way, although they are no longer put to any commercial use .
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The first commercial use of the new product is in Agfa's 406dpi printer.
vehicle
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The event is open to preserved and current commercial vehicles and preserved emergency vehicles.
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Excluding pickup trucks and commercial vehicles , though, Mercedes grabbed 8. 0 percent of the market.
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They are expected to halve pollution caused by large commercial vehicles , bringing them into line with regulations governing car exhaust emissions.
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Taxes on commercial vehicles are also lower than on passenger cars, he said.
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Will commercial vehicle operators buy long-lasting, reliable but expensive quality tyres, or cheap, short-life imports and re-moulds?
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An increase in passenger car exports was offset by a 20 percent fall in commercial vehicle exports.
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The surge in commercial vehicle production was regarded as a particularly encouraging pointer to an improvement in the economy.
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You need permission to build parking space for a commercial vehicle .
venture
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After dabbling in commercial ventures from within Titan for nearly four years, the company took a bold new step.
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These commercial ventures led to many disputes, and Love was extremely litigious, appearing often as a plaintiff in Chancery.
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The movement born as an alternative to the arid materialism of consumer culture is here hawked and promoted like any commercial venture .
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This is a commercial venture from which we aim to make a profit.
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This is a peculiar anomaly in that the Transfer Regulations currently exclude undertakings in the nature of commercial ventures .
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Hence the Act is really talking in terms of a commercial venture A single transaction will be sufficient to satisfy s 45. 2.
whaling
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Both worry about the fishing villages whose livelihood has been commercial whaling .
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Today, commercial whaling is banned.
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But we do face a real possibility that some commercial whaling will be allowed to resume in 1992.
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Helped bring an end to commercial whaling .
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The deal envisaged would permit a limited resumption of commercial whaling inside the 200-mile coastal zones of the countries concerned.
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a large commercial fish farm
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All commercial milk is pasteurized.
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Denmark's first commercial channel went on air on June 1, 1987.
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Guangzhou is the commercial capital of China's Pearl River area.
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His first commercial venture was opening a small corner shop.
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Most European countries have a mixture of commercial and state-run television.
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Several commercial properties are vacant.
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The British Empire was established for commercial as well as political reasons.
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The designer insists her clothing styles are commercial .
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the most popular commercial radio station in London
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The space shuttle is being used more and more for commercial purposes.
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Theobald is a freelance commercial artist.
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And commercial life these days ain't easy as we can vouch.
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Apply to the Secretary if you wish to become a commercial pupil.
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But is commercial pressure to blame?
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But what has happened with the more commercial manifestations of rave don't interest me.
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From its first operation in the 1920s, the computer only reached commercial feasibility and success in 1964.
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However, others saw a commercial rather than a political motivation behind the sale.
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The only real sense the deal makes is unashamedly commercial .
II. noun
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■ NOUN
beer
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A beer commercial came on, and he turned off the sound.
radio
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We even made our own television commercials and our own radio commercials.
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In one radio commercial , Scratchman rescues a kitten stranded in a tree by firing up a chainsaw.
television
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They are planning a blitz of television commercials , town-hall meetings and phone-ins.
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For instance, why is showing an unflattering picture of Bob Dole in a television commercial such a terrible crime?
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The crows in the television commercials provide another vehicle for conveying messages about Docklands.
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None of them appear in television commercials with star players, as Jones does.
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There were some laid back television commercials too.
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One television commercial showed a couple at a raucous party, getting friendly as they talk about the lottery.
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She is on national television commercials .
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Or are they simply reacting emotionally to finely crafted television commercials and populist rhetoric?
■ VERB
air
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Nor is an anti-abortion candidate who aired graphic television commercials with footage of dismembered fetuses.
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The station repeatedly aired a commercial for the tape.
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Clinton has already staged dry-runs in 20 media markets, airing three 30-second television commercials last June at a cost of.
do
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He does commercials with Deion Sanders.
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I would like to do some commercials .
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When I was 12 I did off-Broadway plays and commercials .
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It is providing a guaranteed access to its members, and a simple multilateral agreement to do commercial inter-networking.
run
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And to pay for it they must run commercials .
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All the major candidates, with one exception, have been running negative commercials .
see
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But with audiences in the millions, enough people see the commercials and buy enough products to make the system work.
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And do you remember seeing all those SunTran commercials during the Superbowl a few years back?
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Perhaps you have seen this commercial .
show
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Overall, research shows that the commercials are very meaningful to Guinness drinkers and reinforce its reputations as a tonic.
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During this time they were also shown a reel of commercials for different brands, including one for Tetley round bags.
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a commercial for low-alcohol lager
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Have you seen the new Levi jeans commercial ?
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Networks show more toy commercials just before Christmas.
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We'll be right back with you after a commercial break.
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And seeing as it was my brainchild, would you not say it was possibly the best commercial of all time?
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But with audiences in the millions, enough people see the commercials and buy enough products to make the system work.
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Part of the reason commercials are effective is that they are, in a sense, invisible.
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Producers of commercials resisted, but granted some concessions to end the strike.
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The television commercials are complex texts within which different forms of signs are structured by a variety of codes.
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There are even commercials that show us a vision of hell should we fail to buy the right product.
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Yet the commercial is based on speculation that is indeed scary but not unjustified.