noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a piece/item of data
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Every single piece of data is important.
a vocabulary item formal (= a word, especially in a coursebook or a language class )
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The difficult vocabulary items are explained at the bottom of the page.
an item of expenditure (= something a government or person spends money on )
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Housing is the biggest single item of expenditure in the budgets of most households.
an item/article of clothing formal (= a piece of clothing )
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All items of clothing should be clearly labelled.
an item/piece of baggage
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How many pieces of baggage do you have?
collector's item
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The dolls are real collector's items.
household goods/products/items etc
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washing powder and other household products
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household chores
luxury items/goods (= expensive things )
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At Christmas we try to afford a few luxury items.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
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The possibility of insuring certain items should be investigated.
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Highlight or underline certain items and ask the student only to finish those that are so marked.
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Charities and small firms are exempt, as are certain essential items , such as food as a product.
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Every language has certain items which have the property of reference in the textual sense.
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Occasionally it will be necessary to decide to refuse or delay access to certain items of information.
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The museum staff are still keen to recover certain items from the factory.
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Something might be in Jay's hands for a short while - a certain item - then it would be gone.
exceptional
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As in other countries, the recession inhibited collectors from putting exceptional items on the market.
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Another area of uncertainty is the treatment of exceptional items .
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Operating profit grew by 14%, excluding exceptional items .
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In 1992 its pre-tax profits were £795 million, after exceptional items of £125 million.
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Invesco saw pre-tax profit drop 23 p.c. to £14.5m in the year to December, after an exceptional item of £16.6m.
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Pre-tax profits after exceptional items slid by 5% to £902m.
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This included exceptional items from the financial restructuring, but the underlying loss was cut by almost £400m to £215m.
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Before exceptional items , interest cover was 5.5 times, and dividends are covered 2.8 times by diluted earnings.
individual
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Everything was black, save the make-up, which was displayed in individual items .
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Congress surrendered some of its power Thursday and gave the presidency the authority to veto individual items in spending bills.
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In large transactions vendors may also negotiate a lower limit for individual items .
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The content validity of individual items may be determined by inspection by some one with expertise in the area of language assessment.
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And even when logically there can be no individual item we are tempted to invent one.
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Since reports were in sign the lexical identification of individual items often derived from the other parameters.
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Auction catalogues do not carry critical comments on individual items for sale, but there are sometimes introductions with criticism.
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Responses to the individual items are scored.
large
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He says the increase in food prices is one of the largest items fuelling inflation.
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Probably the seabirds found extra food among the small fish and marine animals which clustered near the larger items of rubbish.
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The largest single item of expenditure was advertising.
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All are small pieces of larger contract items .
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You can also use a portable workbench as a vice to hold larger items .
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Of this money, 18% is spent on computers - the largest single item of expenditure.
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Sterling liabilities Time deposits form the largest item , accounting for around 50 percent of the total.
lexical
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These lexical items act upon the grammar to constrain the temporariness sense since as lexical items they denote temporary activities.
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Like many distinctions, that between open and closed classes of lexical items is not an absolute one.
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However, for the moment we will accept the division of lexical items into open and closed classes.
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These often show a dissociation between the stem of a lexical item and its affix.
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Correspondingly, we shall have to consider three aspects of the delimitation of a lexical item .
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It can be marked by very low pitch, even on lexical items , loss of amplitude and a lengthy pause.
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Each lexical item is given its own card and is filed alphabetically.
luxury
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Taxes were extended to more luxury items and certain public health concessions were restricted for those earning over L40,000,000 a year.
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Currency crisis A government order banning the sale of luxury items was extended on Nov. 18.
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Tea and coffee, once luxury items , became standard drinks for every class.
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In exchange for exports of grain they received money with which they purchased manufactured goods and luxury items .
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Profits range from as little as 10% on some food products to over 400% on some luxury items .
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Only luxury items beyond the reach of the average household remained on open sale.
magic
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These are covered by the Warhammer Battle Magic supplement and are included as magic item cards.
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Only one character at a time may wield these magic items .
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The points values for characters do not include the cost of their magic items .
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He can be given one more magic item from Warhammer or Warhammer Magic at the standard points cost.
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The points values of any specific magic items have been listed with each entry.
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Building up experience and discovering magic items gives Samson an enhanced chance of surviving the later stages of the adventure.
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The usual rule regarding magic items is that only one item of a specific type can be included.
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Bosses are always equipped exactly as the rest of the unit, except that they are permitted one magic item in addition.
major
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With the exception of M0, all the definitions of money supply include bank deposits as the major item .
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The vehicles and major items of equipment of all sorts arrived in extremely poor condition.
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Regulatory reform, for example, was a major item on Reagan's agenda.
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After completing the video, catalog all the major items in your notebook or computer.
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Meanwhile, construction of steelwork and major engineering items is making good progress under long lead funding arrangements.
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The other major items of sport-related consumers' expenditure are part of the non-sport commercial sector.
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As this comment suggests, food is the major item to be paid for within the family's residual income.
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Sight deposits are the other major item , accounting for around 28 percent.
other
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Various other items of plant have been transferred to group factories.
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A small porch at the rear can be used for other small items , although access is only from inside.
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You do not always have to have a specific link to other items on the syllabus.
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She was paying for it when her eye was caught by a stall covered with delicately made tablecloths and other handmade items .
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He may also a number of magic weapons and other items as described below.
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When a painting, sculpture or other item of craftwork is sold the ownership of the copyright remains with the artist.
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A rune weapon will lose its powers for this time, and other rune-based magic items will be similarly affected.
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It includes a number of other items as well.
particular
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For example, the retailer may decide not to make a profit on a particular item .
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All children were asked for the reasons why they thought particular items went together.
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It depends, of course, on the particular item .
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It is not always easy to ascertain the source of a particular item of income.
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A local authority can discuss whether particular items of expenditure be cut so that the local rate may be reduced.
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Some organisations specify particular items which are not covered by the reimbursement of removal costs policy.
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At the same time, the nation's rulers have reduced their requirements for particular items .
single
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I don't remember every single item in every untidy report that the two of you have ever put in.
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Already, then, before a single news item is introduced, a great deal has been communicated.
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The largest single item of expenditure was advertising.
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He never failed to deal with every single item , whether it amounted to five pages or five hundred.
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Of this money, 18% is spent on computers - the largest single item of expenditure.
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By then sugar was fully established as the most important single item imported into Britain.
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It involves retrieval of single items from a lexical output system of the kind described in Chapter 6.
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On some railroads, however, it was far and away the most important single item of freight.
small
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A small porch at the rear can be used for other small items , although access is only from inside.
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She looked around like a person hopeless of finding one small item in a huge storehouse.
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Pictured here is a small selection of items available from the Edinburgh Castle shop.
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Divide the students into groups and pass out the jars and the small items .
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Inside there's a small hanging shelf that is handy for storing small items or for hanging a torch.
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Remove price stickers from small items and new-car windows.
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Jenkins, who lives a block away from the store, said she shops there almost every day for small items .
specific
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Culture-The above specific items are probably enough of a change you may think.
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A trust receipt is a legal document that creates a lien on some specific item of inventory.
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However, there is one specific item in respect of which I believe - nay, I know - the Government have fallen down.
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Normal installation budgets, first drawn up three years in advance, include hundreds of specific line items .
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Indemnities for specific items already identified by the key features review and any further items discovered at due diligence.
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The points values of any specific magic items have been listed with each entry.
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Sales-packs containing samples of our goods are available or you may prefer to take specific items .
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Title searches, for instance, are not necessarily specific item searches and could well be subject searches.
various
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Pearson J. referred to the various items in dispute, allowed some and disallowed others.
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During his whaling career, he had invented various items of shipboard gear.
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She headed for the door at a dead run, her new arm thumping uselessly against various items of furniture.
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Indeed, one may even say that sexuality was the theme linking the various items which comprise the matrix that is Orphism.
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I need to acquire various items of equipment and a car.
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She may also have restrictions about how much of her pocket money she may spend on various items .
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While cleaning friers the boiling solution in the well can be used with advantage to clean various other small items of equipment.
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I have not even been able to describe all the various tackle items now available for carp fishing.
■ NOUN
agenda
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You might have experimented by having a different person take the chair for different agenda items .
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He has signed into law several of his top agenda items , including a tougher juvenile justice code.
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It is not viable to create agenda items which partners will find irrelevant or unmanageable.
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On Wednesday 13 February, we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item .
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Problems and progress in the evolution of teaching skills are an important agenda item for such meetings.
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As the name implies, the initial intention was more general than the agenda item and inorganic chemical nomenclature was included.
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Notice of agenda items to me please, preferably by the preceding Friday in each case.
food
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When feeding on natural food items there may be free amino acids which the carp can detect.
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Since 1980, controls have been lifted from all but a few food items , but marketers' earnings remain low.
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Yet without question its most controversial food item is human.
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Trays are served accurately according to food items , beverages, and condiments marked on menu. 4.
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A 50g sample of each food item must be kept for 72 hours in case there is an outbreak of food poisoning.
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Know the current costs of the food items that you buy regularly.
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There were some food items to be bought; she was persisting, doggedly, with the recipe book.
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My 11-year-old daughter Sarah does not revel in food , but one food item she does love is grits.
household
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It will automatically calculate, for example, what proportion of your income goes on things like the car and household items .
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It went from being a new invention to a regular household item with remarkable speed.
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Mirrors were still very dubious household items .
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Water was still flowing across the island, carrying along a matted raft of vegetation and srnall household items .
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As well as sweaters you can make toys, baby clothes, cushion covers and all sorts of craft and household items .
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Scientists tested 131 products, including toys, video cables, phone cords, place mats and other household items .
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Prepare a small box or bag containing ordinary household items for each of the expected guests.
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Some shoppers look for furniture, toys, books and household items as well.
news
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The ebb and flow of controversy in television news items did not produce corresponding trends in public interest and discussion.
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Already, then, before a single news item is introduced, a great deal has been communicated.
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Let's take the recording task described earlier: to prepare news items for a magazine programme or news broadcast.
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Yet behind the positive news items were reports that showed racial violence had hardly disappeared.
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The curious properties proposed for space time, apparently correctly, helped turn this result into a popular news item .
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David notes that it is interesting that currency flying on the Vulcan - see news item - has been maintained.
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We pray for Your world and think of the news items that have been headlines in the last few days.
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They saw a news item about the deaths on television and advised Gore to give himself up to police.
test
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Face validity reflects the extent to which the test items appear to be concerned with the abilities in question.
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Hopefully, the test items gave you some ideas about where to begin with your positive plot.
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This can also be seen in the responses to a series of sentence-completion test items directed toward eliciting cultural values.
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The test consists of nine sets of items and each set has two practice items and ten test items.
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Assessment frameworks: recent developments An assessment framework is a structure to which any test item can be related.
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The roof rack was a test item and did not prove successful.
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Different methods can influence the difficulty of test items and so the precision in the criterion statement may still prove illusory.
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It indicates that the test items themselves are accurate.
■ VERB
add
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It's hard to prevent a program from modifying the registry or adding an item to the Startup group.
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An and Ganschow have also added items to their already intriguing continental menu.
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What extra significance is added when different items are put together?
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Guess what the Add / Remove Programs item does?
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Don't be afraid to add your own items to the check-list; every meeting is different.
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It remodeled stores, added 30 percent more items and restocked shelves with cigarettes, health products, magazines and greeting cards.
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Congress often eliminates, adds or changes items on the list.
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A good time to add an item , of course, is when you buy it and the receipt is nearby.
buy
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How is it decided whether to buy an item or to make it in-house?
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But places for them to eat, sleep and buy groceries or outdoors items are cropping up more often.
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A certain amount of your pension or allowance is yours to buy personal items like clothes, shoes and toiletries.
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Instead, they buy these items on open account from their suppliers on whatever credit terms are available.
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I should mention that I had bought a few items of clothing that morning, before the trial began.
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The need was recognized on entering the store and the shopper bought the exact item planned.
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This means using your imagination and buying some fairly unusual items .
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In 1939, Minnesota prohibited line agencies from buying items that cost more than $ 50 without approval from Central Purchasing.
contain
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The Chart model has a far larger lexicon, however, containing 4,000 lexical items .
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Prepare a small box or bag containing ordinary household items for each of the expected guests.
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The library contains some 350,000 items very well catalogued and referenced.
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These are usually substantially negotiated before the seller produces the disclosure letter which contains items of non-compliance with the warranties.
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She must therefore establish with the client whether those later accounts contain similar items to those challenged for previous years.
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Their catalogues contain fewer items , but the range of publications is wider than at the turn of the century.
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A list of such bills for the period 27 April to 31 May 1546 contains 140 separate items .
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The second part must contain the item name.
include
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That includes items your bought but never wore, that do not fit, are uncomfortable, or that you dislike.
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Further vocabulary items which can also be employed in the drills may also be included .
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He said he voted against the crime bill because it included items he opposed, such as midnight basketball programs.
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These are covered by the Warhammer Battle Magic supplement and are included as magic item cards.
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She included difficult filler items without pronouns to divert the subjects' attention from the anaphoric expressions.
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This included exceptional items from the financial restructuring, but the underlying loss was cut by almost £400m to £215m.
list
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These rules include the items listed below.
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In private and public statements Washington listed five items that could be considered encouraging symbols of a more constructive policy.
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Typically, derived words are listed as separate items in a dictionary.
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A veteran of four deployments, Shuart listed such items as exercise gear and extra writing paper and envelopes.
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Make a check list of essential items such as a corkscrew, bottle opener and a sharp knife for cutting bread etc.
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It also lists the items usually included in an expatriate's benefits package.
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The inventory consists of three pages listing items of cloth.
produce
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In capitalist society the capitalist exploits this labour by employing it to produce items for sale - commodities - in return for a wage.
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Leaving London behind to set up workshops producing simple functional items , taking the beauty of nature around them for their inspiration.
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The economics department at Ripon Grammar School have set up a small business producing items connected with the history of the city.
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Within a few years, snuff taking declined and the box manufacturers were forced to produce new items .
sell
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He refused to say where he had sold the items he had taken from the house.
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Cost of goods sold represents such items as mat &038; rials costs, direct factory labor, and factory overhead costs.
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We will endeavour to sell your items for you.
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Limited assortment stores, sometimes called box stores, stock less than 1500 items; typically they sell no items requiring refrigeration.
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Vending machines Vending machines usually sell items such as hot or cold drinks chocolate and cigarettes.
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They will also be prohibited from selling items which were not on sale prior to the discounts.
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The fishmonger at the top, opposite the church, was selling this last item .
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Last year, it branched out into corporate gifts and selling limited items directly to the public.
use
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A small porch at the rear can be used for other small items , although access is only from inside.
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This money was then used to purchase items they could not produce themselves, like salt.
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Languages vary tremendously in the type of conjunctions they prefer to use as well as the frequency with which they use such items .
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Managers still used line items to track their expenditures, but the council never saw them or voted on them.
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The grant can be used to purchase any items other than stock or materials.
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When speakers of one language borrow words from another language, the foreign words come to be used as regular vocabulary items .
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A modified Delphi technique was used in assessing candidate items .
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Gold and silver have attracted particular attention because they were used to make prestige items such as jewellery and regalia.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stock item/size
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He then needs to estimate the desired shelf stock size for each category on the basis of this record of use.
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So we need to look for books that become standard stock items in schools.
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Twenty five percent off stock items and 15 percent off ordered furniture.
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Where this is impracticable, groups or categories of stock items which are similar will need to be taken together.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A comfortable, adjustable chair is the single most important item for the health of a computer user.
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an item of clothing
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Bring any old household items for the sale.
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I turned the page, and saw a small item about Muhammad Ali.
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Irene read quickly over the short news item .
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Many of the things that people in the West take for granted are considered to be luxury items here.
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My aunt discovered that her old doll was a collector's item and worth a lot of money.
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The line at the checkout was for people with eight items or fewer.
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The main item of jewellery worn by men, other than a watch, is cuff links.
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The museum has over 5,000 items of historical interest.
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The news item announcing the verdict was much smaller than the item that announced his arrest.
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The next item will be of special interest to viewers who are dog-owners.
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There's an item about the robbery on page seven.
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We moved on to the next item on the agenda.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anyway, he saw him again in the office at Al-Liwa just before the item appeared.
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As new inventory items are received, new loans are created.
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Each user can hold many paths each of which holds many path items.
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In some cases, lots are made up of hundreds or even thousands of copies of the same item .