noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an expansion programme
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The company’s aggressive expansion program will double the size of the chain in the next four years.
expansion card
expansion slot
rapid growth/expansion/development
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The industry is experiencing rapid growth.
vertical expansion
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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Moreover, an educated workforce is argued to be one of the important prerequisites for economic expansion and advance.
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Wage inequality has widened, with the gains for ordinary workers far lower than in previous economic expansions .
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They declared it is sure to guarantee economic expansion and greater wealth all around in the 21st century.
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Across much of the developing world, economic expansion has borne a large and growing middle class.
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But the Valley remained desperately poor, with little possibility of economic expansion or improvement.
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Moderating economic expansion in recent months has reduced potential inflationary pressures going forward.
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Second, economic expansion and diversification have provided a solid fiscal base for local government.
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Increased local-and-state-shared tax revenues during this period were largely the result of economic expansion rather than tax rate increases.
further
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As well as being a year of further expansion , 1991/92 was also a year of consolidation.
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The environmental coalition also has proposed some type of barrier to prevent further expansion of the underground plume.
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Managing director Gordon Smith said Prodescon planned further expansion as the recovery sets in.
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There are indications, however, that the government is now trying to put the brakes on further expansion .
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Profits edged ahead to £12.5m and further expansion of its shops and product licensing is under way.
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Keith currently has a team of two with plans for further expansion in the new year.
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Acorn would provide us with a ready-made hotel chain ripe for further expansion .
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He took over a small department and greatly expanded it, planning a large new building, which ensured further expansion .
great
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And the areas of greatest urban expansion - Flanders and Gothia - were also those where Carolingian judicial forms had survived longest.
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What was achieved by the great expansion of research which produced these drugs and the clinical innovation which adopted them so freely?
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He was not reckless exactly, but he certainly never stopped to consider whether that loss was too great to hamper expansion .
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Ever-increasing demand stimulated a great viticultural expansion in the last half of the fourteenth century.
huge
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Despite this huge expansion , our students enjoy one of the most generous support systems in the world.
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But the huge expansion of consumer markets offset those losses, and the tide kept rising.
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Coal-tar technology could not cope with the huge expansion in the chemical industry that took place after the Second World War.
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Under way is a huge trading floor expansion , which will boost space by 65, 000 square feet.
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This huge expansion was by no means carried out solely by governments of the left.
industrial
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It served to prevent the industrial and military expansion pursued during those years from becoming excessively inflationary.
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She was in her great era of commercial and industrial expansion .
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The depopulation and lack of facilities in rural areas indicates to a few that industrial expansion is detrimental to country life.
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The industrial and commercial expansion of the nineteenth century required land to be available for development.
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An explanation advanced for this is that industrial innovations generate expansion .
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The harbour has made the county a major centre of industrial expansion .
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A key question is, therefore, whether industrial expansion and international commerce has a similar impact on the Third World.
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Whether the intention was personal aggrandizement on the part of the family or a shrewd step towards industrial expansion is not known.
international
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But it is too late to turn back the clock on the bank's international expansion .
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The money raised will be used to fund clinical trials and to finance the group's international expansion .
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Many international expansions are clearly the result of more than one of these pressures.
major
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Currently undergoing a major expansion - watch this space for developments.
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Other goals that were achieved included a vast increase in green space and a major expansion of the community college system.
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The shares took a bit of a knock due to profit-taking but are well worth holding ahead of major expansions .
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Will Stansted succumb to major expansion ?
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So almost overnight, Aarau decided on a major expansion scheme, and work began on the Laurenzenvorstadt.
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W H Smith acquired it in 1903 and carried out a major expansion and refit in 1907.
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Therefore, there has been a major expansion .
massive
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The sudden and massive expansion of the company's market in the early Seventies had several repercussions.
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For individuals this means more complex forms and a massive expansion of means testing.
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It fully expected a massive expansion .
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If ratified, it would signal a massive official expansion of Community competence into non-economic areas.
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There was also a massive expansion in the formal schooling system, with an emphasis on building rural schools.
rapid
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During this period of rapid territorial expansion the empire was almost continually at war.
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This rapid expansion , combined with a large teacher training programme, was a mammoth task.
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The move represents the latest step in Starbucks' rapid expansion plans.
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Modern art is directed at a public largely untutored in the fine arts amidst a rapid expansion of the means of communication.
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The rapid expansion of enrolments, teacher numbers and the volume of materials and support services meant that budgets grew very rapidly.
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The advent of the transistor brought rapid expansion in set ownership.
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The very rapid expansion of the education system has left support systems running to catch up.
thermal
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It could make or break with vibration or thermal expansion as the machine warmed up.
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So it is difficult to estimate thermal expansion as a result of surface warming.
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In the latter case, thermal expansion of the wire proportional to the heating is sensed by mechanical means.
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The occurrence of scrub and forest fires provides another mechanism whereby rocks can be subjected to significant thermal expansion and contraction.
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Some of the illustrations of shattered pebbles attributed to thermal expansion and contraction are of flint and quartzites.
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The importance of thermal expansion , the third mechanism of salt weathering, has yet to be fully evaluated.
■ NOUN
business
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Second comes the business expansion sector, the main source of profit improvement.
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Critics maintain excessive regulation can stand in the way of business expansion and faster approval of life-saving drugs.
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In the sellers' markets of the post-war years there were no pressures for changing this modusoperandi of business expansion .
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I understand from the promoters that the project can not fail because it qualifies for tax reliefs under the business expansion scheme.
card
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But the user must be patient when learning the ins and outs of an expansion card .
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Choice of an expansion card , with a particular processor, will be determined largely by intended application for the device.
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It ha six free 16-bit slots, but the power switch cable blocks access to one full-length expansion card .
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NIM6000M is compatible with Sbus expansion cards .
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Loosen dust and debris from the motherboard and expansion cards with a soft bristle brush.
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Before replacing expansion cards clean the gold edge connectors with a little cleaning solution applied to a lint-free swab or cloth.
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However, the 3.5-inch cage projects into the expansion card space so you can only fit five full-length cards.
plan
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And one which found that its ambitious expansion plans were rather more difficult in practice than on paper.
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It would not disclose expansion plans for the rest of the Bay Area.
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Quarries down the road at Ffestiniog are within the National Park, and expansion plans must be carefully thought out.
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It appeared that despite campus expansion plans , the commercial area would be saved, and even improved.
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The postponement of his much touted hospital expansion plan had been the last straw.
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Mr Hook said Accor wants outside investors to help fuel its ambitious expansion plans in the region.
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In a few cases, such as steel, it effectively coordinated expansion plans .
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Malaysiabased securities analysts generally welcomed the expansion plan .
programme
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So the expansion programme has to be linked to our building capacity as well as to student demand and national need.
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The outward symptoms arose out of Tudor Grange's ambitious expansion programme , which could only be fuelled by borrowings.
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Hepworth raised £100,000 to fund an expansion programme .
slot
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It is very important to have the greatest possible support around the expansion slot area.
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The Executive case has six expansion slots , but little room for an extra drive.
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The Professional case has five full-length 16-bit expansion slots and room for two free drive bays.
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Access to the drive bays and expansion slots is reasonable.
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Model EWS4800/215 is an entry-level desktop model with VMEbus expansion slot .
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Room for growth is unmatched for a machine of this size: a remarkable three full-size and two half-size expansion slots .
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The card fits into a free expansion slot on the motherboard.
team
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The first victory is recorded six games into the season, 13-10 over Tampa Bay, in a battle of expansion teams .
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The people of Los Angeles want and deserve an expansion team and nothing else.
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Nobody has more money to spend on them than the expansion teams .
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The team lost for four years, and drew at the gate like an expansion team should.
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They were an expansion team in 1991-92 -- and getting worse.
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No club can lose more than three players while expansion teams are in the process of picking 35 each.
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The question for folks there is will it be an expansion team or a relocated one?
■ VERB
allow
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Each section of the deck of the road is carried on sliding bearings, to allow for expansion of the sections.
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It stretches and will allow for expansion and contraction without cracking.
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Note that some push-fit joints must be fitted into a solvent-weld system to allow for expansion .
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It gradually tightens itself so as to not allow for expansion of the rib cage.
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Space should always be allowed for the expansion of hot water pipes.
continue
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Would it continue to see expansion ?
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It will also keep plans to continue its aggressive expansion , opening as many as 232 stores this year.
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These calculations understate the continuing expansion of sales through multiple retailers, as demonstrated by data from Taylor Nelson Sofres.
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Will it be able to carry on attracting sufficient work to justify its continuing expansion ?
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The company attributed the increases to continued expansion of the business.
finance
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The mutual structure of building societies means that capital resources to finance expansion can only be built up out of retained surpluses.
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It will use the capital to finance and accelerate its expansion , the company said.
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In order to finance expansion on this scale, the government has relied heavily on payments and other inputs from the community.
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The city will assume responsibility for convention center permit issues when bonds are issued to finance expansion of the facility.
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Optimism that the sale will help Wharf finance that expansion drove its shares higher today.
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Here are the most popular ways for entrepreneurs to finance their expansions: Internally Generated Funds.
lead
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But I doubt if the Gates millions will lead to expansion at Cambridge.
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The Storehouse chairman feels far more at home leading the expansion of the group he has built up so assiduously.
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The arrival of a railway in a town did not always lead to expansion .
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The deregulation of long-distance coach services has led to a major expansion in reliable and cheap services.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Most regions are enjoying rapid economic expansion .
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the expansion of the local stadium
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The airline has plans for expansion into Asia.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A reading above 50 % indicates expansion in the manufacturing sector and a reading below 50 % indicates a contraction.
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Bureaucrats may be motivated to achieve positions of control rather than expansion .
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He is an extreme nationalist, who threatens war and expansion at the drop of a fur hat.
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It fully expected a massive expansion .
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It is a substantial record of investment in the expansion of primary and community health care.
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The focus of this will be the expansion of sales to the private sector and to selected overseas markets.
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Within a decade we were back to our old ways of profligacy and profit, confident that the expansion would continue unabated.
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Without this productivity increase exports could not have expanded fast enough to balance the additional imports required to sustain the 1955-61 expansion .