noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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legal
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Foods to boost your physique, your intelligence or your psyche are already taking advantage of this legal loophole .
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This legal loophole has proven lucrative for the farm giants.
■ NOUN
tax
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Banks are busily designing privately placed securities that exploit the many available tax loopholes .
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Republican lawmakers, in contrast, aim to raise only $ 18 billion by closing tax loopholes for business.
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Mr Clinton is also keen to close tax loopholes for foreign companies.
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Forbes was protesting a Clinton administration effort to close a Medicare tax loophole that benefits thousands of business partnerships.
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Other private placements are designed mainly for issuers, often to exploit tax loopholes .
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Approximately one dozen employees took advantage of this remarkable tax loophole .
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To crack down on tax loopholes .
■ VERB
allow
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They have urged the Government to tighten up the apparent loophole which allows motorists to speed.
close
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Visa has recently closed a loophole that let AT&T put a telephone number on its Universal cards.
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A good first step would be to close the loophole in that conflict-of-interest clause.
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Mr Clinton is also keen to close tax loopholes for foreign companies.
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Republican lawmakers, in contrast, aim to raise only $ 18 billion by closing tax loopholes for business.
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The Home Office says the changes will close a loophole to organisations such as the Literal Democrats which appear designed to confuse.
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To liberals, it means closing loopholes for the rich and strengthening the earned income tax credit.
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A rational Congress would move quickly to close the gun show loophole .
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Deductions would be eliminated in most cases to close loopholes and discourage the use of tax shelters.
exploit
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Those people are not exploiting a loophole or grabbing at a large pot of gold.
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And so, an Arizona-based company exploited that loophole , sending countless faxes to unsuspecting Californians.
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The worm exploits three security loopholes in the systems to gain root access to the server and make changes to the system.
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Simply hoping that governments will not exploit loopholes is stupid.
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Other private placements are designed mainly for issuers, often to exploit tax loopholes .
find
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He found loopholes in the rough, if you like.
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The owners set the ground rules, then they find all the loopholes to enable them to move players anyway.
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Many of them were lawyers employed by those companies to find loopholes in environmental protection laws.
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We were the slickers finding loopholes in the law to turn criminals back on the streets.
leave
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He gave me a faintly hurt look then, smiled and said, you must leave me some loophole .
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Yet since even the best laws leave loopholes , unsavory characters find ways to game the system.
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They are also likely to leave loopholes the size of aircraft carriers.
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However, Romley left a loophole in the deal by not securing in writing the promise that Carey would resign.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He pays very little tax because of some loophole in income tax legislation.
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tax loopholes
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The new rules will close loopholes in British immigration law.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A good first step would be to close the loophole in that conflict-of-interest clause.
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A recently proposed federal ban on feeding animal protein to animals is encouraging, writes Rhodes, but has too many loopholes.
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But no party is willing to refuse to take advantage of these loopholes when the other party is doing it.
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The existing law is riddled with loopholes and anomalies.
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There was, indeed, one possible loophole .
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They did so simply by reading the fine print and slithering through the loophole that yawned, obvious and inviting, therein.
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Various ways of using this loophole are under current investigation.
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Visa has recently closed a loophole that let AT&T put a telephone number on its Universal cards.