verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/encouraging response (= when people like something or show interest )
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We’ve had a good response from the public.
a good/positive/encouraging/hopeful sign
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If she can move her legs, that’s a good sign.
encourage exports (= make them more likely to exist )
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Kenya used subsidies to encourage exports.
encourage/promote cooperation (= make people want to work together )
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The programme will promote cooperation between universities and industry.
encourage/promote diversity (= make it more likely to exist )
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Creating a pond in your garden encourages wildlife diversity.
stimulate/encourage investment
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The government has cut taxes in order to stimulate investment.
stimulate/encourage/promote growth
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Greater government spending may stimulate economic growth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
actively
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This means they must actively encourage a more selective approach to custodial remand and sentencing.
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I come from a family where blood feuds are not only tolerated, but actively encouraged .
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Neighbouring schools may actively encourage difficult and demanding families to seek somewhere else for the education of their children.
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Is it responsible to be actively encouraging gay men to use a product that is untested?
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Sister Guadalupe, nun, June 1983 Right from the beginning, we have actively encouraged women's incorporation.
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Cold-calling, at one licensed dealer, when the salesmen got desperate, was just not tolerated, it was actively encouraged .
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Headway Pre-Intermediate invites students to think about how they learn, and actively encourages good study habits.
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The university actively encourages the entrepreneurs.
also
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They are also encouraged to make connections between medical and scientific advances and changes in human society.
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Leaders also encourage creativity when they take the sting out of failure.
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Whitefly also encourage aphids which feed off the sugary deposits.
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The sickly, overheated corporate environment also encourages a kind of meeting mindlessness.
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Merton's thesis was that a godly involvement in the affairs of the world would also encourage the growth of science.
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Bufkins also encouraged the managers to visit their engineers on-site more often and attend more meetings.
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The policy review was also encouraged by hints of a Soviet willingness to negotiate.
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Psychiatrists also encourage self-stripping on the part of their patients.
■ NOUN
child
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We also need to encourage children to use their imaginations in science lessons.
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It does moral damage by encouraging prejudice within children regardless of their color.
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Landlessness was also seen as an element of poverty and encouraged large families so that children could earn and remit wages.
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Charles Booth argued, probably correctly, that old age pensions would encourage children to take in elderly parents.
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Because men have been taught to value independence, they betray no one by encouraging it in their children .
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Reading and spelling accuracy is encouraged as the child copies one of these program listings.
development
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And fourthly, subsidies and loans help provide finance to encourage development .
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Since we last met, there have been further encouraging developments .
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A great deal can be done by government to help and encourage such development .
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It provided finance, ensured protection and, on occasion, encouraged technological development .
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The university authorities encouraged this novel development and three students were eventually elected to the county congress.
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Various devices were used to encourage the development of separate identities between the two groups.
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Growth promoters will encourage root development and tiller survival.
government
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But clearly governments were ready to encourage innovatory thinking.
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There is clearly a fine line between stifling government intervention and encouraging creativity and innovation.
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A great deal can be done by government to help and encourage such development.
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Normal government budgets encourage managers to waste money.
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By selecting Tadchester as one of the new Development Zones the government plans to encourage new industry in the area.
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Whenever the flow of emigrants slowed, the government in Lisbon encouraged it again.
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Margaret Thatcher's governments encouraged the old nationalised industries to sell derelict sites which retailers snapped up for building superstores.
growth
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The introduction of psephology encouraged the growth of opinion polls as a guide to voting trends.
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Light to moderate pruning after a period of bloom encourages bushy new growth .
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It involves cutting down the main trunk to encourage new growth from the edge of the stump.
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The second hazard is that old bugaboo, moisture, encouraging mildew growth and eventual decay.
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Nitrates contribute to nutrient enrichment which encourages algal growth and blooms.
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It recommends that the government reduce spending to encourage growth in private industry to bring about faster rates of economic growth.
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Although she enjoys the aesthetic value of wild flowers, her reason for encouraging their widespread growth is principally scientific.
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Rationalism of this kind has encouraged the growth of more and more nebulous deism.
investment
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If these measures had been designed to encourage investment , or to create jobs, they would at least have restored economic growth.
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In this framework, policies that encourage investment are good; policies that make investment less profitable are bad.
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Other hoped-for measures include tax breaks for industry to encourage investment and more cash for building projects.
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The federal government creates these funny situations with tax breaks to encourage investment .
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A series of measures-such as' Competition Credit Controlwere introduced to encourage investment and reduce regulatory controls on private sector investment decisions.
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We shall pursue the privatisation programme, and encourage private investment , both domestic and foreign.
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It was designed to use preferential interest rates to encourage investment in manufacturing, tourism, mining and agriculture.
member
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Please encourage class members to lobby their local councils about cuts in classes, either personally or by petition.
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Director Pat Bean encourages members to tape rehearsals and practice at home.
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Ideally, market forces alone would be enough to encourage members to assume these various roles.
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The political party can encourage or require its members to work together to achieve shared policy goals.
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Please do your best to encourage your class members to come along.
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Mr Sayer also hinted at moves to encourage other wealthier members of the association to increase their current contributions.
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Every store encourages members to raise money for charity which is doubled by the company.
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The quiz was held to encourage members of staff to discuss safety issues and seek information.
people
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The Profitboss encourages unconventional ways of making profit, encouraging his people to be creative and take initiative.
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In the 1870s, after all, when plumpness was in vogue, physicians had encouraged people to gain weight.
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The idea was to encourage people to join a union - not ban them if they couldn't.
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The same freedom from job limits that unleashes enormous effort also encourages people to overextend themselves.
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We know also that police screening encourages people not to report.
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Graham also encouraged people to turn away from materialism and instead focus on what he said really matters: the spiritual.
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Success would encourage young people to stay in the inner city instead of moving out of the area.
policy
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The policy review was also encouraged by hints of a Soviet willingness to negotiate.
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In this framework, policies that encourage investment are good; policies that make investment less profitable are bad.
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First, is it an ethical investment policy to encourage people to try to have their cake and eat it?
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What makes it worse, they say, is that federal policies encourage the layoffs.
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The government also pursued policies designed to encourage a commercial ethos in the remaining public enterprises.
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If we want to make policy changes that will encourage parents to remain together, we can do so.
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Their policy to encourage cycling, not the macho sort but for families, is very progressive.
pupil
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It encourages pupils to approach them from angles not considered by other subjects or forms of study in the curriculum.
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Traditionally it has meant some form of moral education to encourage pupils to develop attitudes of cooperation and concern for justice.
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It encourages creativity and allows pupils to use the language they have learnt in the context of stimulating and relevant projects.
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Here we need to encourage pupils to think and express themselves in vivid ways using word pictures.
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The teacher has a role in encouraging the pupil to use the aid and in reducing teasing by other pupils.
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Teachers should discuss the cogency and clarity of such documents and should encourage pupils to improve them.
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To encourage individual pupil use in their non-timetabled school day. 7.
student
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Will Compacts encourage students to leave school at sixteen instead of participating in further education?
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Some programs also are encouraging students to enter four-year colleges who might not have done so in the past.
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In retrospect he criticized one of his old drawing masters for encouraging students to copy from photographs.
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In the classroom, cultural analysis encourages students to examine for themselves the underlying assumptions in the texts they are studying.
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Schaeffer encouraged teachers and students to take part in cultural sensitivity training workshops.
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Criticism of the service side of training should be encouraged so improvements in student learning and patient care can be developed.
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Early results from Roosevelt suggest that the pathway focus actually may encourage students to take more, not less, academics.
use
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BIndustry spokesmen argue that encouraging widespread use of unconnected phones would lead to mischief and abuse.
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The effective use of new power strategies, albeit awkward at first, encourages their use in the future.
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More competition encourages the use of modern, efficient aircraft.
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This greater bandwidth will encourage the use of capacity-hogging services such as continuous audio and video.
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We will encourage more effective use of local sport and leisure facilities through compulsory competitive tendering.
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This low sensitivity rate has encouraged the use of instruments to enhance cell exfoliation.
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The grammatical system of each language will itself encourage the use of certain devices in preference to others.
■ VERB
design
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If these measures had been designed to encourage investment, or to create jobs, they would at least have restored economic growth.
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President Clinton Friday endorsed incentives designed to encourage states to move children more quickly from foster-care settings into permanent adoptive homes.
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Taxes should be designed to encourage greater effort and levied only when wealth is achieved.
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The government last month introduced a package of incentives and tax breaks designed to encourage home and household-goods purchases.
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In addition, the Report made a number of other detailed recommendations which were designed to encourage an increase in technological studies.
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The limits are designed to encourage fiscal responsibility.
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It's a new site designed to encourage women to get online and enjoy their favourite magazine in the process.
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Taxation may be designed to encourage the division of estates.
try
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Lambeth Council is trying to encourage more homosexual men and women to adopt children or become foster parents.
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I try to encourage as much openness and contrary views as possible.
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I tried to encourage him to tell me more of his own story.
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He had tried to encourage a traditional democracy.
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But take courage, and try and encourage your children to talk about their feelings too.
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Clinton is trying to encourage employers to hire welfare recipients through tax breaks and subsidies.
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The marketer will try to encourage brand loyalty as a means of rendering the purchase process more comfortable and more satisfying.
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Counselors try to encourage patients to get into treatment.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(make) encouraging/optimistic etc noises (about sth)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cigarette machines in the streets will only encourage more teenagers to smoke.
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Congress is considering tax breaks to encourage investment.
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Damp conditions encourage the growth of the fungus.
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Her letters really encouraged me throughout my illness.
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Her parents encouraged her to cook and even paid her to make dinner twice a week.
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I would never have won if my friends hadn't encouraged me to keep trying.
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Patricia encouraged me to apply for the job.
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She was always looking for ways to encourage her students.
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This insurance plan will be too hard to administer and will encourage fraud.
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We want to encourage more children to use the library.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Avoid spraying your plants with pesticides, grow plants that encourage beneficial insects such as carrots, parsley, parsnips and nettles.
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But no evidence suggests that she courted danger for her children as she encouraged their freedom.
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Is it responsible to be actively encouraging gay men to use a product that is untested?
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Likewise we recognize that pre-feminist homemakers were encouraged to stand by, and lie beneath, their men.
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The popularity of organised tours visiting the Balearics and the interest of the locals has encouraged the club to expand.
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The San Francisco angler with the signature floppy fishing cap encourages tyros not to be intimidated.