noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a donor card (= one that shows you want your organs to be given to someone when you die )
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We want to encourage more people to carry a donor card.
a donor organ (= an organ from one person's body that is put or can be put into another person's body )
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There is a chronic shortage of donor organs.
an organ donor (= someone who gives an organ for an organ transplant )
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Not all patients who die are suitable as organ donors.
anonymous donor/benefactor
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the anonymous donor of a large sum of money
blood donor
donor card
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
anonymous
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Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors.
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An anonymous donor had given 20 gallons of cooking oil, desperately needed in the stricken country.
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The blood transfusion brought colour to my face and I am deeply indebted to some anonymous donor .
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The Free Presbyterians' fines were paid by an anonymous donor .
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Another anonymous donor regularly left a sugar bag full of food on the Burrows' front verandah.
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It is abysmal that a gossip writer should use spiky chit-chat from anonymous donors to make money and notoriety for herself.
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The anonymous donor , a needlewoman herself, hired it out to film studios in the 1940s.
big
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Others take earmarked money but go beyond the legal requirements and identify big donors .
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Courting big-money donors takes time, sometimes years from the first contact to the delivered check.
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In addition to big party donors , guests also included community leaders, elected officials and business executives.
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Another coffee in 1996 saw big donors from Texas gathered at the White House.
corporate
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She saw the names of prominent corporate donors mentioned liberally throughout the library and recoiled.
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Simons also is trying to find corporate donors to buy a $ 2. 5 million video scoreboard.
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With potential large corporate and individual donors , emphasize specific project sponsorship more than general operating fund support.
democratic
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Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., is concentrating on Democratic donors and the Clinton administration.
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Few heavy Democratic donors attended as many coffees as Azima, who is a registered Republican.
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Barakat was one of dozens of major Democratic donors and fund-raisers invited to the White House for coffees in 1995 and 1996.
foreign
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The Justice Department has launched a broader inquiry into the alleged solicitation of foreign donors by the Democrats, particularly Huang.
generous
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You may like to know that the cost of these sachets have been met by a generous donor .
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There is good reason to believe that this is also the wish of those who are the generous donors .
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Unfortunately, Ed Durbeck is not really in the position of a generous donor .
individual
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With potential large corporate and individual donors , emphasize specific project sponsorship more than general operating fund support.
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In Stockport, the School had already benefited from the generosity of many individual local donors .
international
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These have frequently been made in response to pressure from major international aid donors .
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The debt crisis has made commercial banks and international donors wary of making certain types of investments.
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Agencies for Development Assistance provides profiles of international donor agencies as well as guidelines on how to submit support proposals to them.
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Peace talks have cost $ 12 million to international donors .
major
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Before this, the regime was not regarded with favour by many of the major donor agencies in the West.
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Barakat was one of dozens of major Democratic donors and fund-raisers invited to the White House for coffees in 1995 and 1996.
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These have frequently been made in response to pressure from major international aid donors .
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The study found that Enron was a major donor to Sen.
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In return, major donors were granted various privileges, depending on how much they had given.
other
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These bacteria use molecular hydrogen as well as other electron donors , for the dissimilatory reduction of sulphate to sulphide.
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The confidence displayed by the World Bank men and other donors in the early 1970s has clearly not fulfilled its promise.
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We are considering what more we can do and it is up to some other donors to do likewise.
potential
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In addition to examining ways to generate resources it would act as a consultative group linking potential donors and beneficiaries.
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Upon reflection, Romer said, he considers it acceptable to give potential donors the names of such tax-exempt organizations.
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But the main potential donor , the United States, has not yet confirmed that it will take part.
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Lamm also expects to spend some of his short stay in Silicon Valley chatting with potential donors .
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We view so called elective ventilation of patients who might become potential organ donors with some trepidation.
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Alan agrees to put the suit on hold and to stay away from the media while Dave pursues the potential donor .
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The Anthony Nolan Research Centre manages the world's largest register of potential bone marrow donors .
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It has been suggested that supply would be adequate if all potential donors became actual donors.
prospective
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Curators, art dealers, conservators, art donors and prospective donors seek his attention.
suitable
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It's unlikely she'd be suitable as a donor , she could probably be only a half-match at best.
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Regrettably the customer's daughter died following unsuccessful attempts to find a suitable donor for a heart-lung transplant.
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She vowed if it was humanly possible, no other patient would suffer a similar fate through lack of a suitable donor .
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Recently Kelly explained how her parents carry a special bleeper which would go off when a suitable transplant donor was found.
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One third of patients accepted for heart transplantation die before a suitable donor is found.
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In fact, 80% of people who die under the age of 60 are suitable donors .
western
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The programme is not binding on any of the signatories but is likely to influence the lending and spending of Western donors .
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Similar plans to placate Western donors are often behind the establishment of rights commissions, it said.
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Concern was expressed that Western donors might link aid to political reform.
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The suspension cast doubt on the prospect of larger-scale aid disbursements by Western donor countries.
■ NOUN
aid
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The attention of all the principal aid donors is concentrated there.
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These have frequently been made in response to pressure from major international aid donors .
blood
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Who can become a blood donor ?
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Blood Transfusion Currently all blood donors are initially screened and blood is not accepted from high risk individuals.
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The National Blood Transfusion Service is entirely dependent on voluntary blood donors .
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That statistic comes from a mail-in survey of 34, 700 blood donors nationwide, he said.
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Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors.
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It is not as though regular blood donors receive preferential treatment when they come to need a transfusion.
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Our contracts specify that private patients, many of whom are themselves blood donors , are not charged for the blood itself.
card
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Six-year-old Stewart Davies carried a donor card everywhere with him, heartbroken dad Brian revealed.
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Many of us carry full donor cards in favour of our surviving fellow humans.
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Only two weeks before, she told her mum she wanted a donor card in case anything happened to her.
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I therefore launched the donor card again last week.
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Remember, by filling in a donor card you could help save some one's life.
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How to join the register A donor card is just as essential now as it always has been.
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Organ donor cards are available from most hospitals, general practice surgeries, dispensing pharmacists, and social security offices. 9.
cell
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First the donor cells had to be cultured and genetically transformed, which could take weeks or months.
country
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On 8 January I called for a high-level meeting of donor countries to respond to the United Nations latest humanitarian appeal.
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The kit system worked well until 1990, when the donor country suddenly and unexpectedly decided to reduce funding.
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The suspension cast doubt on the prospect of larger-scale aid disbursements by Western donor countries .
insemination
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Design - Prospective cohort study of all women who had entered a donor insemination programme.
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Leaflets on HIV/AIDS, donor insemination and other topics are available.
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Again, donor insemination should be considered.
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We may also have been exposed to the virus in the past through blood transfusion or donor inseminations .
kidney
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They are waiting for a kidney donor and time is running out fast.
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Patterson wrote his daughter in November offering to be her kidney donor .
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However, he wrote to the girl in November offering to be her kidney donor .
marrow
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An international search for a bone marrow donor led to Janet Pope, a doctor's receptionist from Princes Risborough.
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The Anthony Nolan Research Centre manages the world's largest register of potential bone marrow donors .
organ
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Many more organ donors , however, are available than are being assessed through existing organ procurement efforts.
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In Wisconsin, the drugs have been used routinely in organ donors , without problems, for decades.
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We view so called elective ventilation of patients who might become potential organ donors with some trepidation.
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The second good reason was that he was the perfect organ donor .
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The patient's relatives were keen for him to be an organ donor .
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The specimens from the organ donors were immediately placed in ice cold isotonic saline.
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A shortage of organ donors continues to be the main limiting factor in most types of transplantation.
■ VERB
become
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Who can become a blood donor ?
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To become a donor , simply click through and follow the instructions on how to print out the card.
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We view so called elective ventilation of patients who might become potential organ donors with some trepidation.
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It has been suggested that supply would be adequate if all potential donors became actual donors.
carry
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Six-year-old Stewart Davies carried a donor card everywhere with him, heartbroken dad Brian revealed.
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Many of us carry full donor cards in favour of our surviving fellow humans.
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Make sure they know and understand your wishes. Carry a donor card.
find
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Regrettably the customer's daughter died following unsuccessful attempts to find a suitable donor for a heart-lung transplant.
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Who knows whether we could find a compatible donor in a hundred years?
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Simons also is trying to find corporate donors to buy a $ 2. 5 million video scoreboard.
give
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An anonymous donor had given 20 gallons of cooking oil, desperately needed in the stricken country.
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Distances between hydrogen-bonding acceptor and donor atoms are given in A. Five carboxyl groups in this cluster are buried inside the protein.
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One obvious way for developing nations to get the money is for outside donors to give it to them.
meet
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Many officials now spend most of their working hours entertaining visiting delegations, meeting donors , and preparing project documents.
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The president has not met with the donor since the Rose Bowl.
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He says you're not allowed to meet your donor until at least 1 year after the operation.
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In fact, he asks everyone at the meeting to keep the donor idea under wraps.
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You may like to know that the cost of these sachets have been met by a generous donor .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Finding a liver donor may be difficult.
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Money for the new health centre has come mostly from private donors.
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Some donor countries have criticized the way in which their aid is being distributed.
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The museum received $10,000 from an anonymous donor .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In return, major donors were granted various privileges, depending on how much they had given.
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In Wisconsin, the drugs have been used routinely in organ donors, without problems, for decades.
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Moreover, dozens of donors came from outside New York state.
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Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors.
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That statistic comes from a mail-in survey of 34, 700 blood donors nationwide, he said.