noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an economic indicator (= something that shows how well the economy of a country is doing, and what is likely to happen to it in the future )
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The main economic indicators show that the economy is still in decline.
performance indicators (= things that show how well someone or something is doing )
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We use a set of performance indicators to assess the level of progress.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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Amongst the many economic indicators in an economy, interest rates arouse a great deal of public attention.
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The economic indicators , to be sure, should put these worries in perspective.
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The most useful economic indicator to watch is consumer confidence.
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There was also a decline in the government's index of leading economic indicators .
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Since that time, the main economic indicators show an economy in decline.
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The Commerce Department's index of leading economic indicators fell twice as much as expected during November.
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Other economic indicators , however, paint a gloomier picture.
good
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A better indicator , in his view, would be to combine absolute size with relative performance.
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Same-store sales are considered the best sales indicator because they exclude the effect of sales from new, remodeled or closed stores.
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Larger samples and a better choice of indicators are required.
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One of the best indicators of the parents' progress is their visiting pattern.
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Outside the tropics, daylength rather than temperature is the best indicator of time of year.
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As they point out, child-rearing patterns may provide a better indicator of social class than the more conventional criteria.
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This size limitation means that harvester ant assemblages are not good indicators of the local mammalian fauna.
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This aspect is not the best indicator of a boom time for money matters.
important
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Pulse and blood pressure are also important indicators of circulatory status.
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However, it is suggested that market share is normally the most important indicator of dominance though not the only factor.
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Turnout is becoming as important an electoral indicator now as the share of the vote that each party achieves.
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Another important indicator of the economic importance of sport, employment, is given in Table 2.4 in Chapter 2.
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The new government's attitude to foreign investment was also seen as an important indicator of future economic policy.
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The failings may also justify some simplification, if only to allow greater resources to be devoted to the most important indicators .
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None the less, as we shall see, class provides the most important indicator of partisan support.
key
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Accordingly, the study focuses on the cross-sectional properties of some key financial indicators that are constructed from accounting data.
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Instructions to the group should emphasize that the criteria should define the essential elements or the key indicators of exemplary nutrition care.
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They answered questions about, for example, determining key indicators in their area and about getting everyone involved in quality improvement.
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Once the key indicators are selected, the current or historical level of performance on each indicator is identified. 3.
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A set of key service indicators to measure performance. 5 A year-end manpower statement.
leading
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A careful strategic analysis as described in chapter 4 will help to lessen the disadvantages of using leading indicators .
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Sports Illustrated is definitely a leading indicator as to what's happening in sports in the U.S. and clearly rugby is not.
major
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The accompanying reduction of output in the support economy; however, is never subtracted from any of the major economic indicators .
other
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Classificatory or other indicators of relationships should be checked and recorded in their final form.
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It would not be surprising if today's figures were underestimates, too. Other indicators confirm that the economy is stirring.
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Looking at the other indicators , employment dropped 1.4% in the nine months to April.
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Taken with other environmental indicators , such as land snail shells and insect remains, they also give information about the prevailing climate.
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No other indicator has proved so reliable.
reliable
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A useful but not completely reliable indicator of potency.
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The figures used are not always reliable indicators .
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Most agree that measures used in combination provide much more reliable indicators of performance.
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Pseudomelanosis coli is regarded as a more reliable indicator of chronic anthranoid laxative abuse of more than nine to 12 months.
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Cotinine in the urine is a reliable indicator that the subject has been exposed to passive smoking.
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The calculation of the scan score from these images provides a reliable and objective indicator of disease activity.
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It can be argued that these tests are a reliable indicator of performance when tested under controlled conditions.
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Matthew Lynn Number of employees provides a reliable indicator of a company's performance over the short term.
sensitive
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Infant mortality is frequently assumed to be an especially sensitive indicator of severe poverty.
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Such dye retention in the blood serves as a sensitive indicator of cellular necrosis.
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Unemployment Unemployment rates arguably provide the most sensitive indicators of local employment opportunities.
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As for the upper jaws, percentage incisor loss appears to be a more sensitive indicator of breakage than molar loss.
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A sensitive indicator of health need should reflect these disease patterns.
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A more sensitive indicator of fertility behaviour is the average completed family size of women born in the same year.
single
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Government is not reducible to a single quantitative indicator .
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Not all indicators are included, nor is the presence of a single indicator an assurance that abuse or neglect exists.
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Between 1957 and 1960 they were fitted with the large single indicator box, which did not suit their designs.
social
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Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain.
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Summary With the aid of these economic, political and social indicators banks endeavour to assess country risk.
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Demographic and social indicators are crucial components of most of these estimates.
useful
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So far as resident proprietors went this rough yardstick makes a useful indicator as to the probability of their owning land in other places.
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An ability to create useful indicators of developments in science, and, increasingly, in technology.
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The arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio is a useful prognostic indicator .
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Unplanned or emergency readmissions may be a more useful outcome indicator .
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The most useful economic indicator to watch is consumer confidence.
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None is perfect, but they are useful indicators .
various
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Table 5.4 shows how the various indicators of participation have changed from 1977 to 1986.
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Along the way Bill stops the group, pointing out various indicators of forest life.
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The Government is in disarray at present but various indicators suggest that the economy may be coming out of recession.
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The project will analyse the distribution over households of various indicators of living standards.
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This introduced maximum levels of various indicator bacteria which are legally allowed at the identified bathing waters.
well
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A better indicator , in his view, would be to combine absolute size with relative performance.
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Larger samples and a better choice of indicators are required.
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As they point out, child-rearing patterns may provide a better indicator of social class than the more conventional criteria.
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Charges, on the other hand, may be a better indicator of a fund's prospects.
■ NOUN
market
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Last week the Nikkei 225, the best-known market indicator , dropped to a 27-month low.
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Broader market indicators were also lower.
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It is past nine a. m. now, so Bottoms keeps one eye on the stock market indicator as he continues reminiscing.
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Today the Dow is the most famous, closely watched of all market indicators .
performance
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Yet traditional performance indicators provide little to guide investment in knowledge and learning.
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Further information was obtained from performance indicators from the Department of Health.
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From this base, a set of performance indicators were generated as the top level of the information set.
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The drive towards numerical and managerial performance indicators has already been mentioned.
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The performance indicators which are produced consist mainly of data on payment, which makes useful analysis difficult.
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Some LEAs have long collated information obtained from schools in such a way that the results might be described as performance indicators .
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Quality assurance, performance indicators and professional competence.
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The criteria against which to measure success are termed performance indicators .
■ VERB
consider
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Outcomes are considered the ultimate indicators of quality measuring the actual health status of the client.
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Same-store sales are considered the best sales indicator because they exclude the effect of sales from new, remodeled or closed stores.
develop
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The writers had developed bibliometric indicators for analysing research group performance within two large faculties of the University.
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The funding os for a one year preliminary project which will develop indicators by which the principles can be characterised.
include
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The work status variable is also included as an indicator of time availability.
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Features include a flow fault indicator , an elapsed time indicator, automatic shutdown and a battery low indicator.
lead
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The latest leading-indicators report will be released tomorrow at 8: 30 a. m. Eastern time.
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There was also a decline in the government's index of leading economic indicators .
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The Bundesbank tracks M3 money-supply growth as a leading indicator of inflation.
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The Commerce Department's index of leading economic indicators fell twice as much as expected during November.
provide
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Most agree that measures used in combination provide much more reliable indicators of performance.
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However, noninvasive clinical determinations such as height, weight, and skinfold thickness provide acceptable indicators of body fat.
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Unemployment Unemployment rates arguably provide the most sensitive indicators of local employment opportunities.
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These specimens may provide sentinel indicators of new pathogens and emerging diseases.
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As they point out, child-rearing patterns may provide a better indicator of social class than the more conventional criteria.
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The comparison provides indicators of economic development for this sample of countries, including wealth, industrialization, education, and urbanization.
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None the less, as we shall see, class provides the most important indicator of partisan support.
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Matthew Lynn Number of employees provides a reliable indicator of a company's performance over the short term.
regard
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The participation rate is regarded as an indicator of the number of people looking for work.
use
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But relative decline is used as an indicator by some; and output can be used as a measure rather than employment.
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Likewise, early reading problems and low scores on achievement tests are often used as an indicator of anticipated weak academic achievement.
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A careful strategic analysis as described in chapter 4 will help to lessen the disadvantages of using leading indicators .
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Most sociologists faced with this particular problem have used occupation as the indicator .
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Wholesale prices are used as an indicator of movement of domestic costs up to 1983 and retail prices subsequently.
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He uses the same indicators of economic development as those employed by Cutright.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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High levels of cholesterol may be an important indicator of heart disease risk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An alternative indicator of demand for labour is employers' notification of vacancies.
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Four indicators were emphasized - staff student ratios, average class sizes, average student hours and average lecturer hours.
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Good economic indicators masked widespread unease.
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However, it is suggested that market share is normally the most important indicator of dominance though not the only factor.
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It is these positive indicators that will count in the long run.
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Shortly thereafter, Odom called back to say the warning indicators had changed to an all-out attack of 2, 200 missiles.