noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an engineering/building/electronics etc firm
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Fred worked for an electronics firm.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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Ned is a corporate planner in a large electronics products company.
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Ralph, a 45-year-old computer-systems analyst, works at a large electronics company in the Bay Area.
■ NOUN
business
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Mrs Pearce is a manager in an electronics business , making printed circuits.
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In both the music business and the consumer electronics business, a whole lot of shaking out has been going on.
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Westinghouse shares had remained stagnant even after the company announced its plans to sell the electronics business .
company
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Lockheed Martin paid a fair price for Loral given the demand for defense-electronics companies , he said.
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Ruggles is now licensing electronics companies around the world to sell add-on quad decoders for home video.
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Elco, an electronics company , shed 1. 25 percent.
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Finding a niche is also important as many of the big electronics companies have frozen recruitment while they weather the recession.
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Ralph, a 45-year-old computer-systems analyst, works at a large electronics company in the Bay Area.
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One reason for this was the lesson Philips and other consumer electronics companies had learned about the importance of global standardisation.
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And electronics companies are looking at ways to re-use components and recover materials from their products.
consumer
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Not surprisingly, the major computer, consumer electronics and telecommunications companies are hoping to grab a share.
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In both the music business and the consumer electronics business, a whole lot of shaking out has been going on.
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For example, television has probably been the biggest consumer electronics success of all time.
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This country is the size of Ohio and has long been a major exporter of automobiles, consumer electronics and ships.
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The same arguments for use of digital electronics apply equally to communications systems, test and measurement, broadcasting and consumer electronics.
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One reason cassette players and other consumer electronics are played so loud, Hull said, is the phenomenon of auditory adaption.
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Without this adjustability, the neural circuitry would be as rigid as that in our consumer electronics .
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Lechmere, a 28-store chain largely known for consumer electronics and home products, currently employs 4, 921 throughout the Northeast.
defence
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And 200 jobs are at risk at Ferranti in Newport Pagnell after the defence electronics firm called in the receivers.
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Manufacturers of equipment for telecommunications, defence electronics and household appliances have merged or entered joint ventures to ensure their continued competitiveness.
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Its activities were largely focused on telecommunications, the heavy electrical sector and on defence electronics and avionics.
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The MoD is keen to preserve Ferranti as an independent force in defence electronics .
division
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The cancellation coincides with the closure of Reed's computer and electronics division at Richmond, Surrey.
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The weapons and electronics divisions , worth forty million pounds, have been bought out by their own managements.
engineer
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He qualified as an electronics engineer before going to teachers' training college after which he obtained a degree in art history.
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Alex, an electronics engineer , landed a job after two months with a fast-paced computer company on the Peninsula.
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Drinking in the Bull and Bush, are 25-year-old Edward Galley, an electronics engineer , and a couple of friends.
firm
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Hamish Reilly, 35, worked for an electronics firm in Livingston before moving into the hostel 14 months ago.
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A salesman at a competing wholesale electronics firm in San Jose told the same story.
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And 200 jobs are at risk at Ferranti in Newport Pagnell after the defence electronics firm called in the receivers.
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Mike Sollers, an independent contractor with an electronics firm , was edgy the afternoon we met.
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The research also assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the area for electronics firms .
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Founded in 1968, it pioneered the modern micro processor and now mainly supplies components for other electronics firms .
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In this sense Ward is not typical of the people who run the new electronics firms .
giant
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The electronics giant added 1 / 4 to 50 1 / 8 as 9. 2 million shares changed hands.
group
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Amstrad, the electronics group , came out badly with this year's forecast slashed from £85m to £50m.
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Westinghouse also will maintain its refrigeration business and commercial electronics groups .
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Ferranti International, the troubled electronics group , had another rousing session with Seaq volume put at 38 million shares.
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The troubled defence and electronics group has spent the week in talks a clutch of potential bidders.
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Most stockbroking analysts believe it inevitable that the troubled electronics group will be taken over.
industry
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This is hardly surprising since display technology is expected to dominate many sectors of the electronics industry , both industrial and consumer.
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The consumer electronics industry suffered through one of its worst Christmas seasons in decades in 1996.
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This time around, the computerisation curve has flattened out, so the electronics industry has been hit as hard as any.
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A survey of the electronics industry in this respect would, I believe, show a net loss.
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They were of various sizes and worked in the vehicle, aerospace, mechanical engineering and electronics industries .
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We have an extremely lively electronics industry .
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Colin Amies, electronics industry adviser at Midland Bank, says that obtaining equity finance is often more important.
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Investment in the electronics industry from the rest of the world increased steadily since the beginning of the 1980s.
maker
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The computer electronics maker told analysts that inventory thefts led to lower-than-expected quarterly earnings.
manufacturer
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I have visited an electronics manufacturer where the notion of continual cost reduction is an important feature of operating policy.
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Take, for example, the electronics manufacturer discussed in Chapter 2.
product
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Ned is a corporate planner in a large electronics products company.
retailer
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Consumer electronics retailers were hit the hardest.
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The electronics retailer said shareholders will have the option of selling their stock or increasing their holdings to 100 shares.
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Best Buy, the Minneapolis-based consumer-electronics retailer , has a bad case of the post-Christmas blues.
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Sales at stores open more than a year fell 5. 6 %, the electronics retailer said.
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But the consumer electronics retailer said that sales at stores open for at least a year dropped 6 %.
sector
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To achieve this a set of regulations has been introduced which is having a profound effect on the electrical and electronics sectors .
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These will be carried once a month and will alternate with contracts in the food and electronics sectors .
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Whilst many of the developments will be beneficial to all disciplines, certain aspects are particularly relevant to the electronics sector .
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The best-received firms were in the information technology and electronics sectors; the worst in traditional engineering sectors and construction.
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Between 1975 and 1984 total employment in the electronics sectors declined by 19 percent.
■ VERB
include
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Other masterclasses include mathematics, electronics and music.
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Seventy years of empty store shelves have created great pent-up demand for consumer goods, including electronics .
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Examples include physics and electronics problems in basic mathematics classes.
sell
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They will be sold at electronics and computer stores as well as at toy retailers, such as Toys R Us.
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H-P earned more than $ 31. 5 billion last year, selling every form of electronics from calculators to computers.
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Westinghouse shares had remained stagnant even after the company announced its plans to sell the electronics business.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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American homes are filled with VCRs and other electronics .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Analogue design remains important because it accommodates and defines the basic building blocks of electronics .
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H-P earned more than $ 31. 5 billion last year, selling every form of electronics from calculators to computers.
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Harris Corp., electronics / defense, Melbourne, Fla., $ 27, 000.
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On Silver and Knitmaster standard and fine gauge electronics the setting is slightly different.
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Seventy years of empty store shelves have created great pent-up demand for consumer goods, including electronics .
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Spacecraft electronics systems are vulnerable to damage by high-energy charged particles and are at particular risk during magnetic storms.
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The electronics retailer said shareholders will have the option of selling their stock or increasing their holdings to 100 shares.
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These are terms used in digital electronics to designate the basic logical operations on which digital systems are founded.