noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bomb disposal experts/team/squad/unit
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The device, which contained 400lbs of explosive, was made safe by army bomb disposal experts.
bomb disposal (= the job of dealing with bombs that have not exploded )
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a bomb disposal expert
bomb disposal
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The device, which contained 400lbs of explosive, was made safe by army bomb disposal experts.
garbage disposal
waste disposal
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the problem of radioactive waste disposal
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
final
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Sites are being selected for final disposal of radioactive waste.
immediate
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From this reserve and from the immediate disposal of existing assets, trusts can make acquisitions of new assets.
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The one mechanism they have at their immediate disposal to stimulate growth is the exchange rate of their currencies.
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Social workers must first diagnose the problems and then help with such practical aids as they have at their immediate disposal .
nuclear
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The banning of the annual sea dump brought the issue of nuclear waste disposal into even sharper focus.
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Discussions of future reactor safety should revolve about two critical issues: nuclear waste disposal and nuclear weapons proliferation.
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She added that the party would not approve the construction of nuclear waste disposal facilities.
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For nuclear waste, disposal into space is more feasible but has been discounted on numerous occasions because of the risks.
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In the process, it had simply underlined the almost intractable dangers of nuclear waste disposal .
safe
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New powers to refuse wastes and revoke licences are potentially powerful weapons in controlling the movement and safe disposal of wastes.
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Infection control policy An infection control policy should be available to staff, emphasising he importance of the safe disposal of sharps.
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Methanogenesis is a safe and effective disposal route for H 2.
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Face washing and improved hygiene of young children; and Environmental improvement with safer water and disposal of animal and human waste.
waste
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I have never come across a people more obsessed with waste disposal .
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In general, how-ever, these problems pale to insignificance compared to the problem of radioactive waste disposal .
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Although waste disposal sites are well controlled, there is an ever present risk of pollution.
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In terms of databases on hazardous wastes , attention has already been drawn to the waste disposal plans prepared by WRAs.
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It retained water and yet had subtle membranes which permitted air to penetrate and facilitated waste disposal of the embryo.
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In recent years, most countries have tightened their standards of waste disposal .
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It helps to get the lymph fluid - a vital part of the body's waste disposal system - flowing.
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The subsequent examination of potential releases from processes or waste disposal , together with environmental pathways is brief.
■ NOUN
bomb
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It could take half an hour for a bomb disposal team to get to Royalbion House.
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One of the devices went off before bomb disposal squads arrived.
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The device went off at 12.30am as bomb disposal men were about to carry out a remote-controlled explosion with a robot.
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The bomb disposal unit destroyed the bomb with a controlled explosion.
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Approval will also be given to supply bomb disposal equipment and goods for civilian end-users.
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The most advanced bomb disposal centre in the world has been officially opened by the Duke of Kent.
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The army's bomb disposal experts say the lesson is simple ... report anything suspicious, especially in the run up to Christmas.
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Army bomb disposal experts from Catterick military base in north Yorkshire are examining debris from both devices.
experts
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The army's bomb disposal experts say the lesson is simple ... report anything suspicious, especially in the run up to Christmas.
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The recent final of a tournament organised by mine-disposal experts drew a crowd of 17,000.
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Army bomb disposal experts from Catterick military base in north Yorkshire are examining debris from both devices.
garbage
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The man who shared her apartment was surly, unfriendly, and always complaining about the lifts and the garbage disposal .
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Her gear shifts sounded like twenty cooks pushing trays of silverware into an industrial-strength garbage disposal .
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Run lemon wedges or fresh mint leaves through garbage disposal to kill odors.
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On the other hand, we understand why you would prefer not to see usable food go down the garbage disposal .
rubbish
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There should be some kind of rubbish disposal facility and you need proper campsites for the trekkers, with camp wardens.
sewage
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Not surprisingly, these sites usually lack a water supply and provision for sewage disposal .
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Examples would include the provision and maintenance of fences, roads, drains, sewers and private sewage disposal works.
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Smog and acid rain, water pollution and sewage disposal , dams and river-flows will become ever more contentious issues.
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A survey will be carried out of sewage disposal systems and it is highly likely that major expenditure will be necessary.
site
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Although waste disposal sites are well controlled, there is an ever present risk of pollution.
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Clean mud could go to upland or, perhaps, ocean disposal sites .
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It's because the landfill disposal site at Stanford in the Vale is full that the changes have been made.
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The Department of Environment has confirmed the figure of 1,300 problem waste disposal sites .
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Option 3: Producer has a contract with named licensed disposal site .
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Secondly no one has yet tackled the technical problems of finding suitable disposal sites on land or at sea.
squad
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One of the devices went off before bomb disposal squads arrived.
system
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It helps to get the lymph fluid - a vital part of the body's waste disposal system - flowing.
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A survey will be carried out of sewage disposal systems and it is highly likely that major expenditure will be necessary.
team
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It could take half an hour for a bomb disposal team to get to Royalbion House.
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Examination by a disposal team established that the contents were capable of causing damage or injury.
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A bomb disposal team made the grenade safe.
unit
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The bomb disposal unit destroyed the bomb with a controlled explosion.
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So save pounds on expensive waste disposal units by strapping Rover under your sink.
■ VERB
arise
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Brought-forward trading losses can be set against balancing charges arising on the disposal of the target assets.
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Operating losses incurred were £427,000 with further £524,000 losses arising from the disposal of Applied Skills for Management.
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In such a case the company may face corporation tax arising from the disposal of its chargeable assets.
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The results include £11.58m arising from the disposal of the joint records venture.
put
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Pre-prepared training packs or videos are put at their disposal .
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The 60 or so hours he put at our disposal fled by.
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In such a way are the clothes of the dead put away for disposal .
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An empty house just a mile or two outside St Margaret's Hope village was put at the disposal of the Committee.
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Her records were, of course, put at his disposal .
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Nottingham Castle may have been put at his disposal but d'Aubigny did not trust our Henry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ease of repair and ease of disposal were almost wholly neglected.
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In its many forms, disposal of the dead has always been big business, and always subject to fashion.
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In promoting recycling as the best answer to waste disposal , environmentalists are therefore swimming against the tides of the market.
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The borrowers were companies involved in scrap metal and disposal , and property.
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These data support the existence of alternative pathways for H 2 disposal in man.
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They had at their disposal a very powerful light infan-try army with experienced officers and very high morale.
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This interest is undoubtedly driven by the search for plastic materials derived from sustainable carbon sources and which biodegrade naturally upon disposal .