DIVERSION


Meaning of DIVERSION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

trade

Appropriate analysis of trade diversion is dependent upon the nature of the countries described by the model.

However there will also be export trade diversion when a union country supplies a partner country in place of the imports from third countries.

This suggests that the forces both of trade creation and trade diversion have been at work.

When trade diversion arises, higher cost supplies from the union partner displace lower cost supplies from the rest of the world.

The deterioration in the domestic country's terms of trade is the essence of trade diversion .

■ VERB

create

The smoke bombs were to create a diversion , he explained.

Ian and Barbara will lead a small expedition into the city from the rear, while the larger group creates a diversion .

And if Lais and Leonore created the promised diversion the plan would go like clockwork.

make

From Poiso we make a short diversion to drive to the top of the mountain, Pico do Arieiro, at 1,818m.

On his way back he made a diversion and called in at Crosthwaite Church to let the cool sanctuary complete his cure.

provide

While the young Millers lived in Swan Walk, eighteenth-century Chelsea provided many diversions for their amusement.

The odd piece of Giant Vallis provides a pleasant diversion from all that rock.

Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with a diversion from household routine.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Everybody needs a diversion , and college basketball is mine.

People who used to rent videos regularly are now looking for diversion elsewhere.

Rioters created a diversion by setting fire to vehicles close to the police station.

Some of the prisoners started a fight as a diversion to give the others time to escape.

Water diversions such as dams and canals are threatening the fish population.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Atlanta, the 1996 Olympics host city from July 19 to Aug. 4, offers a wealth of diversions.

On Tuesday night, by way of diversion , we went off to see if the post hammer was ready.

Signed diversions will be in operation.

The campaign has been denounced by some leftwing union activists as a diversion from the need for industrial action.

The southwestern and south-eastern examples were apparently staggered slightly, accounting for the odd diversion of Ermine Street on the south-east.

These two effects, output creation and output diversion , create an ambiguity about the welfare effects of trade.

Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with a diversion from household routine.

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