verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chapter is devoted to sth (= it deals only with a particular subject )
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Five whole chapters are devoted to social reform.
a devoted fan (= a strong supporter or admirer )
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Devoted fans from all over the country have travelled to the concert.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
amount
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That is why the social anthropologists are justified in devoting such an inordinate amount of attention to the field of kinship.
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They devote an inordinate amount of time, effort and resource to developing high-calibre managers.
attention
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They were thus able to devote more attention to two increasingly critical areas.
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One reason the small companies do so well is they can devote more personal attention to each project.
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I am conscious of the late payment problem, which is something to which we are devoting great attention .
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Why is a major news organization devoting attention to a couple of orange slabs melted between two slices of bread?
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He was right to devote a lot of attention to them.
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He had to devote all his attention to the routine task of driving, finally pulling over to recover.
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The employee arrives here unsettled and is unlikely to be able to devote full attention and energies to the assignment.
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The managers were devoting attention to the wrong issues in their interactions with veteran subordinates.
chapter
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Why devote a chapter to him in a book which explicitly encourages its readers to pay attention to this music?
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Later we devote a full chapter to the application of rational expectations to the theory and estimation of the aggregate consumption function.
effort
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Effective exchange of information is essential, and we devote considerable efforts to that.
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This happens when the employee learns to escape the personal dilemma temporarily by devoting more effort to his or her job.
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Typical farmers who devote their own effort to the operation should also count the value of their time as a cost.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are also devoting resources to this effort .
energies
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Instead devote your energies to something that will definitely be successful.
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Critics of such parental activities argue that activist parents should be devoting their energies to lobbying legislatures to fund all schools adequately.
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The Government's attitude is two-faced - they are also devoting all their energies to preventing the directive from coming into force.
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Many said they would rather devote their energies to defeating Clinton than quarreling over the wording in the party platform.
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Early in 1915 most of the younger activists resigned in order to devote their energies to developing a women's peace movement.
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For the moment, union officials are devoting their energies to the labor dispute at Quincy Farms.
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The employee arrives here unsettled and is unlikely to be able to devote full attention and energies to the assignment.
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A worthwhile alternative to becoming a business tycoon is to devote your energies to voluntary work.
energy
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As for the moody magnetism Method actors devote all their energy trying to perfect, Allen can take it or leave it.
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They acknowledged that they should devote time and energy to developing relationships with those outside their unit.
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The person decides consciously or not to devote time and energy to a particular activity.
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Well, for one thing, they devote time, energy , and community resources to creating great works of spiritual art.
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They may also have to devote energy searching for services to which the child has a right.
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A low-performing organization that continues to devote scarce time and energy to the pursuit of remote goals is courting disappointment.
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They began to see that devoting time and energy to this endeavor bore fruit.
life
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Independent means gave her the opportunity to devote her life to social causes and world peace.
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I have decided that I will devote my life to trying to find the still center of the turning wheel.
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Those who devote their lives to others have that inspiration.
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He was developing an acute social and political conscience, and I could see him devoting his life to the Labour Party.
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So, she would not leave her home, and devote her life to the grand mission of the education of men.
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She turned her back on acting in 1973 to devote her life to animals, becoming a recluse.
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That day Khader decided she would devote her life to fighting discrimination against women.
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But there seemed to be no valid reason for not devoting one's whole life to religion.
money
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It can instead devote its time, money , and energy to maximizing the benefits it has realized.
percent
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At a meeting held in Tunis, the states undertook to devote at least five percent of their territory to nature conservation.
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You were either capable of doing the job and willing to devote 100 percent to the job, or you got out.
space
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It means, too, devoting as much space as possible to selling rather than seating.
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It is unusual for us to devote much space to fiction.
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Religious Persecution I shall devote very little space to this subject.
time
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This adversity he turned to good advantage, for here was time to devote to his beloved natural history.
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She knows that once the Pac-10 season begins in two weeks she will have no time to devote to her case.
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Keeping up with the day-to-day pressure of everyday life leaves little time to devote to ourselves.
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Even in the brief time she supposedly was devoting herself exclusively to the manuscript, she was doing other things.
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How much of your time will you devote to study during academic terms?
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Mrs M no longer had the time to devote to the girl who sought schooling for herself.
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At the same time it aims to devote more resources to special training needs.
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When I've more time to devote to him these ... others ... won't be necessary.
■ VERB
continue
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A low-performing organization that continues to devote scarce time and energy to the pursuit of remote goals is courting disappointment.
decide
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She was deciding to devote herself to supporting him as he leapt from one peak to another.
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He was just twenty-four when on his first visit to Niagara he decided to devote himself to landscape painting.
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That day Khader decided she would devote her life to fighting discrimination against women.
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You may decide to devote less of your time to work and more to your family.
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I have decided that I will devote my life to trying to find the still center of the turning wheel.
want
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Just as there was nothing Lowell wanted to devote himself to - other than music.
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You Republicans want to devote millions of dollars to military weapons.
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Doctors who want to devote much of their time to research are undervalued.
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I want to devote all my time to finding out who murdered Sandy.
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For now I want to devote my all to what I am doing now.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's decided to give up racing and devote all his time to his farm in Ireland.
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She intends to devote the next ten years to her charitable work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At any output of films in excess of Q *;, society would be devoting too many resources to the film industry.
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He wanted a woman who could devote herself to a man, kids, family.
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He was right to devote a lot of attention to them.
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He would devote more time to her.
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Many schools devote almost a third of the allotted time for each lesson to these exercises.
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She was deciding to devote herself to supporting him as he leapt from one peak to another.
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Some will resign from big business and devote themselves to turning an idea or hobby into a business of their own.
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We shall look at it in some detail in this chapter, devoting two sections, 5.1 and 5.2, to it.