I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
financial
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Cautious by nature, they have missed money-spinning opportunities in new businesses like portfolio insurance and financial derivatives .
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These were the first exchange traded financial derivatives .
■ NOUN
business
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Weak earnings, especially in the derivatives business , and rising costs led Standard&038;.
market
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This computerised derivatives market guarantees a high level of market transparency and a rapid handling of clients' transactions.
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Later this month, the General Accounting Office will circulate a draft of its new report on the derivatives market .
■ VERB
use
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The upcoming Voxan clearly uses a derivative of the firm's 72, double overhead cam V-twin.
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In the derivative market, insurance companies have scaled back their purchases of Remic securities.
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A debate is raging now in finance circles and Congress over whether the value of derivatives should be recorded in corporate books.
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Bear Stearns' units are the third such derivatives subsidiary.
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For simplicity, we have also omitted the transfer function and its first derivative in order to amplify the weight change process.
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Perhaps it could be large if the second derivative of f is small, and viceversa.
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The appendix by Bouveault considered carboxyl groups and its derivatives and substituents.
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The BAe 1000, a derivative of the highly successful BAe 125-800, will be produced at its Chester factory.
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The rise of credit derivatives makes it difficult to determine which banks are exposed to a particular risk.
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The upcoming Voxan clearly uses a derivative of the firm's 72, double overhead cam V-twin.
II. adjective
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a derivative artistic style
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This relatively new style of music is derivative of ragtime and blues.
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This season's TV shows are all pretty dull and derivative .
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But most of the content of Margery's thinking was derivative .
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In this interpretation rights to the reproduction of derivative works of art rest with the printer.
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No effort has been stinted in polishing this painfully derivative picture as if it were a diamond instead of strictly paste.
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Sometimes the derivative models achieved success through a particular artist holding on to their subaltern guitar long after they'd made it.
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Surrealism and science fiction are derivative from the unrealities, consoling or menacing, of fairyland.
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This is less of a problem here, since rap is derivative by nature.