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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a firm employs sb
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The firm employs more than 200 people.
employ a consultant
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We sometimes employ consultants to help with marketing.
employ/adopt a tactic formal (= use a tactic )
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Many species of fish employ similar defence tactics.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
business
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Today she runs her own New Age self-help business , Kismet, employing four staff.
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Most are sole proprietorships, but about 5 million are distinct business entities employing more than 60 million employees.
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This case concerned a man who set up in competition with the business that had previously employed him.
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Right now each small business employs 2. 1 people, on average.
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The petrochemicals business employs some 3500 people on Teesside, of whom rather less than 100 are in the headquarters group.
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All the businesses employed residents, and all were required to hire young people to work with the adults.
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The business will employ 36 workers at first with plans to expand.
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Just because a business employs less than twenty people does not mean that it will also only make small profits.
company
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A number of suggestions are also made to make it more attractive for overseas companies to employ non-domiciled nationals.
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In the early eighties, insurance companies employed 1. 9 million workers, 60 percent of them women.
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Annoying, too, for a company who have employed 40 additional technical staff in recent months.
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The combined company would employ 25, 000 workers in 50 countries.
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Some companies employ people to do this on a full-time basis.
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Big companies usually train and employ staff specifically to dress their windows.
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Today, Guinness Import Company employs approximately 120 people and operates through a nationwide chain of wholesalers.
firm
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Do firms employ investment related marketing strategies?
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Advancement is easier in large firms that employ several levels of administrative services managers.
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Do firms employ consultants to assist with marketing?
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The firm , which had employed two thousand people in 1982, had six thousand people by 1987.
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Public police forces are losing ground to private security firms , which now employ two-thirds of all security personnel in the nation.
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In fact, the forward-thinking firm employs 13 administrative staff together with several drivers and warehouse staff and many dedicated sub-contractors.
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The method the firm employs to account for its inventory investment can have an important impact on its reported income.
industry
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The entertainment industry now employs more people than the aerospace industry.
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First, the insurance industry employs vast numbers of women and pays them even less than comparable jobs in other industries.
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Why do these industries employ mostly women?
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Many of the industries which employ engineers and scientists derive a large portion of their business from defense contracts.
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In Laval in about 1700 the linen industry employed some 5, 000 workers in and around the town.
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Which are the industries which employ large numbers of women?
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The industry employs 769, 000 workers in five counties.
labour
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Better-heeled artificers must almost certainly have been master craftsmen employing labour themselves.
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Those firms within the Community which employ labour illicitly will reduce their labour costs and gain a competitive advantage in production.
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Plants in such areas tend to be less innovative, their technologies are older, and they employ less skilled labour .
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One of the attractions of this work is that it would employ a lot of labour .
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He was much admired for managing to employ more labour for less cash than anyone else since the Pharaohs built the pyramids.
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The middle 30 percent owned land but did not employ labour , as they relied on family members.
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Shoe making was progressively employing cheaper labour around and in Northampton, while in the 1780s calico printing moved north to Lancashire.
man
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Maybe somebody employed a hit man .
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In the beginning, it employed fourteen men , but expanded and went on to employ hundreds, then thousands.
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In textiles more women were employed than men .
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I employed men to look after them as I might employ mechanics.
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This they did at Motherwell, and the Dalzell works began operations early in 1872, employing 200 men .
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Who would employ a sixty-four-year-old man when there were thousands of young men struggling to find work?
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Stephenson's was built to employ 2,000 men who would turn out 72 locos a year.
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An employment tribunal has ruled that food retailers are fully justified in refusing to employ men who wear them.
manager
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The Union employs an Entertainments Manager based at Jordanstown to organize and coordinate an entertainments programme across the four campuses.
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There was no clear pattern to the investment strategies employed by the fund managers who scored best.
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Returning to our earlier theme, we notice there is a tradeoff for shareholders' representatives in employing a manager .
means
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It aims at binding the members of the community together in a libidinal way as well and employs every means to that end.
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People have become used to employing violence as a means of resolving conflict or asserting power over others.
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It employs mechanical means to organise molecules into a monolayer on the surface of a liquid.
method
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Now to speak of the School and the methods Cizek employs .
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It is important and valuable to make reference to other studies that have used the particular sampling method you hope to employ .
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From thereon a number of methods may be employed 1.
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The method the firm employs to account for its inventory investment can have an important impact on its reported income.
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Embedded in the teaching method employed by Betty is the transmission model of learning referred to earlier.
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In current research, several assessment methods are used, employing client self-report, behavioural observations, and physiological monitoring equipment.
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Many students of social behaviour are coming to agree that both methods must be employed together.
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A mix of personal interviews and observation methods will be employed .
people
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Most SuperTarget stores employ about 500 people , -- compared with about 200 employees in traditional Target stores, Knach said.
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One team concentrated on how best to employ technology; the other, how best to employ people .
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It follows the announcement of the closure of the Dewar's bottling plant in the city, which employs 340 people .
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It employs 11 people and creates designs in glass.
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Grundig employed 11, 600 people at the end of last year.
person
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Whenever they can avoid the expense and trouble of employing a person by investing in another robot they do so.
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Among employed persons there are significant differences in income by race and ethnicity.
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In some months there were employed up to 40 such persons but usually fewer.
staff
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In the former case, by employing civilian clerical staff a greater proportion of funds can be allocated for direct policing policies.
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Hoffman was previously employed as an assistant staff judge advocate with the U.S.
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The argument for the Banks employing new staff is indeed great.
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CHELTENHAM/Gloucestershire Eagle Star, which has its headquarters in Cheltenham, employs three thousand staff in the town.
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In fact, the forward-thinking firm employs 13 administrative staff together with several drivers and warehouse staff and many dedicated sub-contractors.
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The company, which employs 70 staff , say work goes on as usual, the fire was confined to a storage area.
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Today she runs her own New Age self-help business, Kismet, employing four staff .
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Annoying, too, for a company who have employed 40 additional technical staff in recent months.
strategy
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Do firms employ investment related marketing strategies ?
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Tradition, then, becomes a strong power base from which to employ a defensive strategy to resist change.
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But here, too, he employs the strategy of delaying clarification.
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But groups can employ a variety of strategies to achieve this purpose.
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This whole process appears long-winded and complicated but once you are familiar with it you can employ the strategy very quickly.
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Rather, it parcels out money to more than three dozen money managers who employ various strategies .
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It has employed a dual strategy to achieve these two objectives.
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By employing this particular strategy , we knew we were in for a very long ride.
system
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Farmers employ mixed cropping systems and plant local cultivars with some resistance to pests.
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The navigation system employs Global Positioning System satellites and regional map software to help guide drivers to unfamiliar addresses.
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All surveying practices should employ a sophisticated time-recording system which relates to daily time-sheets and measures time-cost incurred against anticipated fees.
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Hipparchus employed the system to plot the minor epicycles of the sun and moon only.
tactic
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Karpov employed subtle psychological tactics to unsettle the campion.
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Amtrak police and the U. S. Customs Service have also employed the tactic to spot drug couriers.
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Reptiles and insects employ similar tactics , but in their case eye-spots are not necessary to deflect the interest of their predators.
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Apple will need to employ such imaginative tactics to become profitable again.
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The many hours on the road give cyclists the opportunity to employ tactics varying from the subtle to the murderous.
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Morry Taylor, a businessman, gave rambling discourses on the need to employ business tactics in government; and Rep.
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Some small cavity-nesting birds, rather surprisingly, employ similar tactics .
technique
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A number of techniques can be employed to make the experience more valuable.
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The next chapter will explore some of the analytical techniques that are commonly employed in working capital management.
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The main sifting technique employed is called a self-organising map.
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The technique employed was a sustained series of massive B-52 strikes.
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Some techniques were employed to a lesser extent but still provide invaluable comparative results.
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Several implementations of these popular encryption techniques are currently employed .
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In the 1950s Keynesian economic management techniques were employed to try to retain full employment without inflation.
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Once identified, though, what specific counseling techniques might be employed to help the young work-inhibited student?
woman
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However, they have been very active in the large multinational textile and assembly factories which employ women almost exclusively.
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First, the insurance industry employs vast numbers of women and pays them even less than comparable jobs in other industries.
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Why do these industries employ mostly women ?
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He also faulted them for not checking to make sure that contractors doing business with the city employ women and minorities.
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She also employed a woman who let her guests in and out and offered them a glass of wine while they waited.
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Which are the industries which employ large numbers of women ?
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Clothing companies employ a few dozen women .
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Indeed, the overall declines in civic engagement are somewhat greater among housewives than among employed women .
worker
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If the weekly wage were £15, however, the firm would employ four workers .
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Two months ago, his company opened a Cambridge office that employs seven workers .
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Was it not uneconomic to employ older workers whose apparent competence simply masked inevitably growing incapacity?
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After starting with a handful, the factory now employs 2, 800 workers .
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Heather Wilkinson employs a lot of workers and not only waitresses.
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The combined company would employ 25, 000 workers in 50 countries.
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The cost to an employer of employing his workers includes government levies of 11.45% of wages paid.
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The industry employs 769, 000 workers in five counties.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I was employed as a night-watchman by the local hospital.
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Since he came out of prison no one will employ him.
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The equipment employs laser beams to make the computer chips.
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We have lively discussions which pleasantly employ our time and our thoughts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A conservative policy implies that the firm is less aggressive in minimizing current assets and employing short-term debt.
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Anyone who might be interested in employing her should contact me.
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Falkman employed a freelance expert to assist it.
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If you want to employ an attractive secretary how attractive does she have to be?
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It produces 340 drugs and cosmetic products, including penicillin, antibiotics and aspirins. and employs 3, 900 people.
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Its principles could be employed by communities, too.
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The training plan Considerable effort and expense were employed in providing information and training to help boards get established.
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The volatility of their earnings also made it hard for them to deal with the liability concerns raised by employing a student.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The simple fact that he was in her husband's employ gave her an advantage over him.