noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a department store/video store/food store etc chain
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Morgan was the owner of a computer store chain.
a government department
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the government department responsible for policing
a university department
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one of the oldest university departments in the country
Department For Innovation, Universities, and Skills, the
department store
fire department
police department
State Department
the Defence Department (= part of the government dealing with defence )
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This is secret information, known only to the Defence Department.
the education department (= the government organization that makes decisions about education )
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Newcastle City Council’s education department
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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It set separate cash limits for each central government department for pay and allied costs.
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The organisation of the planning process tends to be done in corporate head office by a central corporate planning department .
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Since then, central government departments have established regional offices.
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Each had a board of civil servants to bring together local representatives of central departments related to economic development.
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Central direction has increased since 1979 but local authorities are far more than simply field agents of central government departments .
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This report and the other earlier ones demonstrate the interest of central government departments in professional development.
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Some public trading activities, notably posts and telecommunications, have operated as parts of central government departments .
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They need not necessarily be totally stand-alone units but could be part of the central planning department .
different
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These lines were of various colours, each colour representing a different department .
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Numbers are handled by a different department altogether, in the next building.
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Very often this will be coming from a different department , who should be alerted in good time.
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Kopriva, for example, was in six different departments over 14 years.
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Protestors welcomed the official objection although some were concerned that different government departments had clashed over the matter.
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So many different police departments were involved that protecting the president at times became a logistical nightmare.
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He had the same qualifications as me but he was from a different department and had less experience.
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Some organizations operate different cultures in different departments .
large
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Integrix says the SEC160 makes the Sparcstation 10 useful as a large department server.
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Another novel approach was used by an applicant for a sales position with a large department store.
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Between a small, local shop where there is likely to be less security, and a large supermarket or department store?
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The largest concentration of departments is found in the George Square/Old College area.
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If you were asked to select the towns for two new large department stores, which two would you choose and why?
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Both are backed up by a large research department .
legal
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The leading Stockholm trade publisher Norstedts, also included in the 1990 takeover, has a significant legal publishing department .
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If you do not send a payment as soon as possible, we must forward your account to our legal department .
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The work covered by the larger legal departments in commerce and industry may cover all the legal services the company requires.
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This should ideally consist of a period in each of the different sections of a local authority legal department .
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In the spring of 1945, he decided to create a legal department and start suing bigots.
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I meant... well, the building, the legal department , my office.
local
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A guardian must be either a local social services department or a person accepted by them.
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However, limited resources have left many state and local health departments with inadequate capacity to conduct surveillance for most infectious diseases.
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In contrast, non-communicable diseases have been virtually ignored by local health departments .
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Her husband, Jim Gerlich, 30, is a sales manager with a local department store.
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Nowadays, many top designers also produce mass-produced goods which we can buy in the local department store.
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Interested persons should call their local health department for information.
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Non-playing colleagues rushed him to the local casualty department , where a large plaster cast was fixed on to the injured area.
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No federal resources are provided to state and local health departments to support the national notifiable disease system.
other
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Several of these tasks require the collaboration of production with other departments , notably Marketing and Finance. 21.
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What is peculiar, even unique compared with other departments of government, is a special brand of stuffiness.
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The office was to be separated by a party wall from other government departments .
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The picture of pupil participation in the assessment process was less obvious in the other two art departments visited.
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Then it was on to the chapel, where work from other faculties and departments was on show.
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Its chief task is to ensure that the charter and its offspring are being implemented by other departments .
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We can now turn to the possible conflicts that can occur between the marketing department and other departments.
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No alternative employment within the school or other university department could be identified.
social
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In greater detail, local authority social services departments would be responsible for: 1.
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A leaked letter from the Social Security department revealed that the benefit could be taxed.
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Peter Wiffen, who works for Darlington's social services department , collected £100 through a sponsored slim.
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And now Tony Newton's social security department is hoping a recent £7 million advertising campaign will boost that to 60 percent.
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Orkney Islands Council abdicated all responsibility to its social work department: my children were made to suffer accordingly.
various
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Information is now provided for various Government departments and senior and middle management throughout the organisation.
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At this point, the administration has only 55 confirmed officials in the various departments and agencies.
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Pearn and I wrote most of the leaders, though occasionally we had help from the various departments of government.
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Favorable reports, however, did continue to come in from the various departments and garrisons adhering to the Herrera government.
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Opportunities for school children to spend periods in various departments as part of their social studies or community placement should be encouraged.
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Top staff meetings at the White House and in the various agencies and departments are devoted to getting puff pieces written.
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The corporation for a number of years paid purchase tax on stationery manufactured by it and used in its various departments .
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Aleman has begun his term with surprise inspections of various government departments .
■ NOUN
education
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The project has been organised by Newcastle City Council's education department .
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He retired as head of the men's physical education department at Central Missouri State University in 1976.
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The Physical Education department endeavours to provide a broadly based service for all students and staff within the University.
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It was Kelly who first approached Deirdre Ballou, education department manager at the park, with the idea late last year.
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Is the education department closed on public holidays?
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I welcome the commitment of Strathclyde's education department to co-operate fully with the commission's investigation.
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The agency's Education department runs regular campaigns that involve study and a practical response from participants.
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Some bureaux have been invited in by the probation or education departments or by the prison governor.
fire
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The move follows a visit to the fire department in St Petersburg by a group of firemen from the county.
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When that happens and some one falls in a channel, the city and county fire department swift-water rescue teams must respond quickly.
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Other story ideas come from the police and fire department radio reports of crimes, fires, and accidents.
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The fire department estimates that damage at 50 Congress St. is about $ 500, 000, Caron said.
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Our fire departments have powerful incentives to keep things that way.
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The police, fire department , hotel, stock brokers, lawyers and gay leagues are among these indie leagues.
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Cost overruns for overtime for both the police and fire departments has been a chronic problem for years.
government
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Many large and medium size companies, government departments and Local authorities are putting Dataease to use somewhere within their organisations.
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The office was to be separated by a party wall from other government departments .
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It involved the co-ordination of a number of government departments which was extensive by the standards of nineteenth-century administration.
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Guidance by circular Every year all government departments send a score or more of circular letters to local authorities.
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The bodies which are most obviously subject to various forms of public accountability are central government departments and local authorities.
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But government departments have no method of discovering the origin of the timber and paper that they use.
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At present responsibility falls into several government departments .
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Funds from government departments committed to trade and employment fuel their conversations.
head
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This represented a move away from the department head receiving capitation and simply spending it because it was there.
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Brown said he would let his department heads lead, but that he would be involved in many of their decisions.
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The name will live on as a department head .
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I called Professor Sano, our former department head , and asked his advice.
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Each department head is responsible for briefing the Colonel.
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You receive a panicky call from a department head .
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One programme department head is believed to have rejected it.
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This summer, he held a retreat in Laguna Beach for 14 people, all department heads .
health
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But Keith Atkinson, director of the council's environmental health department , remains unconvinced that the allotment owners are blameless.
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Physicians performing abortions were obliged to file detailed reports on each case to the state health department .
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Home care is also provided by private home health agencies, hospitals and public health departments .
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In contrast, non-communicable diseases have been virtually ignored by local health departments .
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Reporting would be received by state health departments as soon as cases are suspected or identified.
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Some one in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors.
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However, limited resources have left many state and local health departments with inadequate capacity to conduct surveillance for most infectious diseases.
housing
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Access to housing Most housing departments failed to integrate disabled people into their allocation policies.
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So why are they different when met over the counter in a social security office or a housing department ?
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Ask the local authority's housing department in the area to which you want to move for the addresses of local hostels.
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Education and housing departments , water and electricity boards have often failed to follow policy guidelines or to co-ordinate their work.
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If you are living in council property you must discuss adapting your house with the housing department .
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In two cases these policies had been developed as a result of dialogue between the housing department and local disability organisations.
marketing
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The objectives of a marketing department are directed towards the attainment of corporate aims, such as profitability growth and social responsibility.
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The programme developers and marketing departments must be more outward-looking.
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The association's own quantity surveyor and marketing department made detailed investigations.
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But what we see increasingly is the series which is the brainchild of a designer or a marketing department rather than of horticulturists.
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Ken joins as operations manager responsible for the marketing department .
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You are unlikely to find a word processor on your desk or fully computerised accounts, research and marketing departments .
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We can now turn to the possible conflicts that can occur between the marketing department and other departments.
planning
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In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make them compatible.
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The organisation of the planning process tends to be done in corporate head office by a central corporate planning department .
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The extent of the input by the business units themselves depends on the style of planning management adopted by the planning department .
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According to the state's traffic planning department , traffic calming had improved the economic performance of cities like Dusseldorf.
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Simply ask your borough council planning department , who will be able to advise you.
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The purpose of the planning department is to control local development to preserve the aesthetic appearance of the region.
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A strategy should never be allowed to evolve as a by.product of the efforts of the planning department .
police
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In 1994, New Orleans hired a new police chief to rescue the corrupt, ineffective police department from itself.
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The Boca Raton police department gave him the name and phone number of a bank officer who could be reached in emergencies.
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I would guarantee him an exclusive, pictures and all, which is something he'd never get from the police department .
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There were some cases, nevertheless, of clear discrimination: age discrimination in the police department , for example.
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The police department , which once rounded up 50 youngsters a night, now picks up two or three.
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The organisation of the Catholic church is not to be confused with that of the Ministry of Transport or police department .
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So many different police departments were involved that protecting the president at times became a logistical nightmare.
service
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I have circulated the request to the various Regional Council service departments asking them to respond not later than 18 December 1992.
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What can the social services department do to help?
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All local authority social services departments offer different kinds of help and support.
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This study took place between 1981 and 1985 in a large northern, metropolitan social services department .
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This remains the situation that social service departments will inherit in April 1993, when social services assume responsibility for private care.
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Government funding to Social service departments who pay 230-pounds for each resident each week will be cut substantially in April.
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Peter Wiffen, who works for Darlington's social services department , collected £100 through a sponsored slim.
state
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When state department analysts are asked for their opinions, however, pragmatism will probably trump ideology.
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Another 75 or so live in the Burbank-Pasadena area, state department figures show.
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The state department spokesman, James Rubin, has done no more than take formal note of Mahuad's initiative.
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The U. S. Justice and State departments are supporting that demand.
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Yet Pomgol was little more than a conglomerate made up of other relevant state departments .
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Nine state departments or agencies had jurisdiction over at least one of the 70 programs.
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Among Bush's advisers there is a perceptible difference between the more conciliatory state department and the hardline military.
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In 1964 Johnson transferred Bundy to the state department .
store
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Ceilings and floors dangled from what had once been a department store .
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The London department store Liberty &038; Co., for example, was founded expressly for that purpose.
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Plans for the centre include two department stores , an open-air market, a 1,100-space car park and other stores and facilities.
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Those buildings include triple deckers with flat roofs and large roofs such as those on department stores and supermarkets.
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From department stores and kitchen shops.
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Recently I had a long conversation with the credit manager of a department store in Grand Rapids.
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The scissors have stainless steel blades and retail at £1.99 in department stores and toy shops.
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In San Jose, a jury convicted Anthony Garcia of shoplifting several pairs of pants from a department store .
■ VERB
run
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He will be responsible for setting up and running the department which will cover most of the Northern region.
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He was running the department from the chair, like Saint Louis dispensing justice from under a tree.
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It follows restructuring last year which created business units to run departments .
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I am confident that he will pursue this course and continue to run a department whose sales exceed our expectations.
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Otherwise he concentrated on a few vital issues and left his ministers relatively free to run their departments .
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The management experience of being a governor was important to my running a federal department this big and complicated.
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Over time she appointed more congenial ministers to run departments .
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Shoe Pavilion has an agreement to run Gordmans' shoe departments .
work
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He works in the rights department of a small publishing company and has two children from his first marriage.
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Who still works for the 60-officer department as a dispatcher.
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Jean worked in the same department as a Spotter and Darner since she joined the company in 1969.
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Telbis-Preis has been working on her manuscript, while her son works in the service department of Pep Boys in Temecula.
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We had worked together in that department for many years.
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Dave worked in the production department of a company that put on industrials, elaborate musical numbers for industrial conventions.
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James had studied law at university but now was working in the personnel department of Cadbury's.
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So does the assumption that the individual working in a department is the primary building block of performance.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Minister/Department of the Interior
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Former officers at the camp were arrested after the revelations and the Deputy Minister of the Interior , Col.-Gen.
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He had accused the Minister of the Interior and police chiefs of taking bribes from drug traffickers.
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The Department of the Interior and many other federal and state natural resource agencies are moving toward this broader approach to conservation.
the State Department
the Treasury (Department)
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As Secretary of the Treasury you planted the seeds for the most far-reaching tax reform in our history.
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Bills are three month assets issued by the Treasury and some companies.
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More crucially, the Treasury is developing a political and not just an economic position.
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Naval officers received no help from the Treasury for their outfits, though they were given a small tax allowance.
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Only then would the true drain on the Treasury begin.
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The return to gold was Churchill's decision, even though, within the Treasury , he at first was hard to convince.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At that time, Robert Kennedy was head of the Justice Department .
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Ellison is now head of the Department of Education.
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Fred has some problems in the humor department .
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Melissa is in charge of the Marketing Department .
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Our department deals mainly with exports.
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She works in the Humanities department
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the Department of Experimental Psychology
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the Department of Motor Vehicles
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the Department of Trade and Industry
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The movie tries to be both a comedy and a drama, without success in either department .
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Ties are in the men's department .
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Vera works in the public relations department .
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Which department do you work in?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A month later, he was forced to step down as dean of the dental department at the college.
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All these departments provide a support service to the Group in their specialised fields.
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As the record department was within my view from my balcony office, I generally kept away.
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First runners up in the competition were Robert Fulton and John Cunningham, both from the weaving department .
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From both departments he received information that might help free the Stone family from harassment.
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It gets help in this department from a swirl of balsamic vinegar.
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The move comes at a tense time for the Los Angeles police department .
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This should ideally consist of a period in each of the different sections of a local authority legal department .