noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
trade
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Appropriate analysis of trade diversion is dependent upon the nature of the countries described by the model.
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However there will also be export trade diversion when a union country supplies a partner country in place of the imports from third countries.
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This suggests that the forces both of trade creation and trade diversion have been at work.
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When trade diversion arises, higher cost supplies from the union partner displace lower cost supplies from the rest of the world.
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The deterioration in the domestic country's terms of trade is the essence of trade diversion .
■ VERB
create
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The smoke bombs were to create a diversion , he explained.
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Ian and Barbara will lead a small expedition into the city from the rear, while the larger group creates a diversion .
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And if Lais and Leonore created the promised diversion the plan would go like clockwork.
make
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From Poiso we make a short diversion to drive to the top of the mountain, Pico do Arieiro, at 1,818m.
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On his way back he made a diversion and called in at Crosthwaite Church to let the cool sanctuary complete his cure.
provide
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While the young Millers lived in Swan Walk, eighteenth-century Chelsea provided many diversions for their amusement.
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The odd piece of Giant Vallis provides a pleasant diversion from all that rock.
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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
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Everybody needs a diversion , and college basketball is mine.
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People who used to rent videos regularly are now looking for diversion elsewhere.
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Rioters created a diversion by setting fire to vehicles close to the police station.
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Some of the prisoners started a fight as a diversion to give the others time to escape.
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Water diversions such as dams and canals are threatening the fish population.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Atlanta, the 1996 Olympics host city from July 19 to Aug. 4, offers a wealth of diversions.
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On Tuesday night, by way of diversion , we went off to see if the post hammer was ready.
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Signed diversions will be in operation.
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The campaign has been denounced by some leftwing union activists as a diversion from the need for industrial action.
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The southwestern and south-eastern examples were apparently staggered slightly, accounting for the odd diversion of Ermine Street on the south-east.
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These two effects, output creation and output diversion , create an ambiguity about the welfare effects of trade.
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Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with a diversion from household routine.