noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a failure/loss of nerve (= a situation in which someone lacks the courage to do something )
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They accused the government of a loss of nerve.
a huge loss/profit/increase etc
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a huge increase in cost
a lack/loss of morale
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Rising sickness levels among your employees may show a loss of morale.
a loss of confidence
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As people age, they may suffer from a loss of confidence.
a sense of loss (= a feeling of sadness for someone or something you no longer have )
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Many women experience a sense of loss when their children leave home.
bemoan the lack/absence/loss of sth
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an article bemoaning the lack of sports facilities in the area
hair loss
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The drug can cause hair loss.
hearing loss
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Many older people suffer from some degree of hearing loss.
incur expenses/costs/losses/debts etc
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If the council loses the appeal, it will incur all the legal costs.
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the heavy losses incurred by airlines since September 11th
insure (sth/sb) against loss/damage/theft/sickness etc
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It is wise to insure your property against storm damage.
job losses/cuts
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The factory is closing, with 600 job losses.
loss adjuster
loss leader
loss of blood
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She suffered a massive loss of blood.
loss of earnings
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The insurance policy covers you for loss of earnings due to illness.
loss of employment
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Closure of the factory will lead to a substantial loss of employment.
loss of habitat
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Elephants are menaced by poaching and loss of habitat.
loss of income
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You can buy insurance to protect you against loss of income if you are ill.
loss of memory/memory loss (= when you cannot remember things )
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The condition can cause dizziness and memory loss.
loss of memory/memory loss (= when you cannot remember things )
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The condition can cause dizziness and memory loss.
loss/lack of appetite
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Symptoms include fever and loss of appetite.
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I’m a bit worried about her lack of appetite.
mourn sb’s death/loss/passing
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She still mourns the death of her husband.
net loss
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The company reported a net loss of $56 million last year.
profit and loss account
sell sth at a profit/loss (= make or lose money on a sale )
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Tony had to sell the business at a loss.
suffer a loss
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Both companies have suffered heavy financial losses.
tragic loss
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Lillian Board’s death at 22 was a tragic loss for British athletics.
weight loss
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After the first month, weight loss slows down.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Madrid: The construction sector showed the biggest losses as the index slipped 1.31 to 323.31.
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But this big loss to Vanderbilt shows her just how vulnerable the team is.
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A big loss of foreign business, they reasoned, would matter more to the political leaders.
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Just weeks after reporting one of its biggest losses in company history, Apple Computer Inc.
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If he does retire to concentrate on his medical duties it will be a big loss .
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Netscape posted the biggest loss on the index, falling 3 1 / 2 to 137 1 / 4.
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The biggest job losses during Black Thursday were announced by the Post Office.
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Among the largest funds, the Twentieth Century Ultra suffered the biggest losses .
financial
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When their car is taken, they suffer, at the very least, considerable inconvenience and very often substantial financial loss .
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The consequences of compulsive gambling are comparable to those of any other addictive disease and are not simply those of financial loss .
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A financial loss allowance is not taxable as income.
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A councillor may give written notice to his council that he wishes to receive a financial loss allowance instead of an attendance allowance.
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In 1968, the diamond Jubilee came and went without celebration for fear of a financial loss !
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And international response to financial crises is an imperative to limit the contagion of panic and financial losses .
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Defects in other systems might result in financial loss only such as where an expert system is used to provide financial advice.
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The more you fear financial loss , the blinder you become to solutions. 1993 is a year of reckoning.
great
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Some, like Kettner, say it was no great loss .
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Numerically, even greater loss is suffered by the new-born generations.
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He was, indeed, no great loss .
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It is evident that the greater the difference in tastes and preferences, the greater the welfare losses .
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But patients have weighed as much as 550 pounds; the greatest weight loss was 240 pounds.
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Yet constant raids were causing great losses and hardship.
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If the churches are losing membership and income offerings, political institutions have suffered an even greater loss of confidence.
heavy
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If it is stored for too long in rick or barn, rats and mice can cause heavy losses .
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This could further hurt local banks, already reeling from heavy stock losses last year.
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Figure 11.2 Average Best Touch 1987-9 Member firms became profitable again in 1989 after heavy losses following the crash of 1987.
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Timex managers had told him of heavy losses in recent years and the possibility of more losses this year.
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Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk.
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Viruses, generally transmitted by insect vectors, cause very heavy losses in crops.
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If allowed to go overripe, barley ears tend to fall off the stems, and heavy losses can occur.
huge
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On the evidence of the Test series in May and now this, he will be a huge loss .
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The bank has been trying to write off huge losses from its CornerStone credit card over several recent quarters.
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All that followed was a rash of rights issues which have left shareholders nursing huge losses .
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It is the one merit of this book that Mr Madrick vividly reminds us how huge that loss has been.
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Last month, the company announced huge losses and major layoffs in the face of faltering stock prices.
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A memo by the local government minister, Hilary Armstrong, admitted that Labour faced huge losses .
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The numbers are small but they added up to a huge loss for Gramm because he had made it a must-win state.
net
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A survey of the electronics industry in this respect would, I believe, show a net loss .
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But the uplifting is outpaced by the thinning, so there is a net loss of average elevation.
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Emigration abroad was also high; a net loss of about 1.2 million between 1841 and 1911.
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The company has had net losses of more than $ 350 million since it went public in 1993.
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Last year's net loss was £71.7m.
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It had a net loss of $ 5. 3 million, or 14 cents a share.
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But the Metropolitan police still faces a severe problem, with a net loss of 1,253 officers between March and September.
total
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When a total loss arises the following formula can be used to establish the written down value.
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This way the Republican revolution of 1994, which promised so much, will not be a total loss .
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In the event of the total loss of one of these separately insured items the proper settlement is the sum insured.
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But of course the place burned for 25 minutes, and it was a total loss .
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And that's not even necessarily 80 percent of the total loss .
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A 33-year-old widow with four children in my constituency lost free school meals and housing benefit - a total loss of £25.
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Christleton finished two runs short of the total for the loss of six wickets despite 84 from Doc Davies.
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This is shown clinically by the decrease or total loss of secretion of the affected glands.
■ NOUN
account
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Any loss arising should be charged in the profit and loss account .
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Operating lease rentals are charged in the profit and loss account in the year in which they arise.
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Comment on the situation as revealed by the Balance sheet and profit and loss account of Stern.
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It provides insights into the purposes of balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and methods of costing projects and production.
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The only difficult figure in the balance sheet, apart from the profit and loss account balance, is the minority interest.
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Each hotel prepares its own profit and loss account .
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Typically an Information memorandum would include three years historic profit and loss accounts and balance sheets.
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Are losses being taken and shown on the profit and loss account or balance sheet?
blood
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Iron deficiency anaemia is commonly caused by chronic blood loss from the gastrointestinal tract.
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Peptic ulceration may cause chronic gastrointestinal blood loss as well as an acute bleed.
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If blood loss during operation has been excessive, previously cross-matched blood will be transfused.
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Efficient emergency treatment relies upon being able to stem the blood loss with a tourniquet around the foot.
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The deep cuts had missed the major blood vessels and nerves in his neck, but had caused considerable blood loss .
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The results are expressed as mean daily blood loss .
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The upper limit of normal for gastrointestinal blood loss is less than 1.0 ml/day.
hearing
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It should be recognized and accepted that coping with hearing loss can be utterly exhausting.
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My twin brother appeared by the age of about ten to have some hearing loss .
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Reading needs to be recognized as just one more part of your overall plan and pattern of tackling hearing loss .
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Different names are used to describe high-frequency hearing loss .
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This is one reason why hearing impairment in childhood is totally different from hearing loss in adult life.
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Now, with hearing loss , the routine needs to be reviewed, to plan when to talk and when not to.
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They had a history of hearing loss for an average of 18 months.
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Parents who do not detect an intermittent hearing loss can become irritable and controlling and label their child as disobedient and unresponsive.
heat
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Hypertension may be controlled by a nitroprusside infusion, which has the additional advantage of aiding heat loss by peripheral vasodilatation.
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It achieves this by forming an ice barrier to lessen heat loss from the ground it covers.
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While insulation will reduce heat loss , it will not necessarily prevent burst pipes.
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In these clean, dry conditions, the heat loss is minimised.
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It covers areas such as heat loss and therefore allows you to measure the effectiveness of various insulation methods.
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Conventional double-glazing cuts heat loss by conduction, but can not prevent loss by radiation.
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It also reduces a certain amount of heat loss , as well as cutting down traffic noise.
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Table 6. below shows the heat losses from the room.
job
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Some cuts, but steering a way from too many job losses is the option favoured by the liberal democrats.
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But most economists now agree that the overall job loss from a modest minimum-wage hike is relatively small.
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The job losses are blamed on the recession.
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And many more workers are joining the unemployment lines because of permanent job loss rather than temporary layoffs, official statistics show.
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Yesterday's figures were for February and did not include recent huge job losses at Rolls-Royce.
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I understand that 500 jobs losses have been announced by Bass breweries today.
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This is due to be announced next month and is widely predicted to involve jobs losses and possible plant closures.
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It would mean more job losses , dearer mortgages and more firms going bust.
memory
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Nearly every person experiences memory loss as a normal part of the aging process.
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Her injuries have left her with chronic migraine headaches, seizures, insomnia, nausea and short-term memory loss .
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The program will explore normal memory loss and strategies to help improve memory.
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Later in the course of the disease, people may develop clumsy gait, memory loss and speech difficulties.
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Some experts claim the phones can cause tumours, headaches and memory loss .
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Karadzic's continued freedom and the collective memory loss may suit international politics.
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But lately some researchers are challenging the notion that memory loss is inevitable.
weight
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Look out for smell of solvent on breath, nose-bleeds, sores around nose and mouth, weight loss .
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Aerobic exercise and reduced-calorie diets produce weight loss , but reduce the resting metabolic rate because they do not maintain muscle mass.
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Competition between a large mass of parasites and the host for nutrients may be the underlying cause of this weight loss .
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These patients had other diseases not normally seen in combination and had experienced profound weight loss and general debilitation.
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A word about your weight loss From the day you start F-Plan dieting you will start shedding surplus fat.
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I had never realized before what a rich source of endorsement and approval mere weight loss could be.
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First, consider the situation where weight loss is not as good as expected.
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Breakfast is critical to good health, smart thinking, better learning and successful weight loss .
■ VERB
cause
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Iron deficiency anaemia is commonly caused by chronic blood loss from the gastrointestinal tract.
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Osmotic diuretics cause in-creased potassium losses , probably primarily because of the increased urine flow accompanying them.
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Oxidation of hops causes a loss and alteration of flavours.
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What factors cause the gradual loss of the moss and what can be done to restore the moss?
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Counselling can often deal with the personal anger, frustration and eventual depression caused by the losses such illness brings.
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The main effect of the adult worms is to cause production loss in terms of diminished weight gain.
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This can cause loss of control, or at least a lot more work for the controller.
compensate
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The chronic response occurs when the initial increase in cell proliferation fails to compensate for the cell loss .
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The girl compensates for her loss by maintaining connectedness with others.
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Members were told the move would compensate for the loss of car parking spaces in the High Street.
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Congress is considering a supplemental appropriation to help compensate for that loss , Moos said.
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But here again the gain in freedom from aversive stimulation may compensate for any loss of admiration.
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He will get one year with Cleveland to return to elite status and compensate for loss of Ramirez.
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The children need to be taught to move head and eyes to compensate for the field loss .
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He introduced feeling, compassion and pity to compensate for the loss of the comic element.
cover
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The exceptionals are thought to include a provision covering the potential loss of the management contract.
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In other words, the system really has to cover all economic losses .
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It covers areas such as heat loss and therefore allows you to measure the effectiveness of various insulation methods.
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The Chicago-based company set aside $ 210 million in the fourth quarter to cover loan losses .
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Please not that you are not covered for consequential loss under this service.
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If Susan can afford to cover a loss , she should absorb it herself without a policy, Yeske advised.
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But will the scheme also cover business interruption loss , which in last year's explosion amounted to £100m?
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The stored water could then be used to irrigate adjacent agricultural land, and hydropower revenues would cover the inevitable losses .
cut
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Cawthorne cuts his losses and goes somewhere else.
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Killeen has cut multimillion-dollar maritime losses in half.
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I hope Wilko cuts his losses with our Brian and then goes out to look for a decent striker.
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As for Richard, take my advice and cut your losses .
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Slashing costs and hiking insurance rates cut its loss against 1991 by a thumping £84 million.
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Try the risky, potentially spectacular shot, or cut his losses and play safe?
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I believe he must cut his losses on a number of individuals.
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Once he learned to ride his gains and cut his losses , he never looked back.
expect
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Of the top 19 banks, 13 are expected to make losses this year as they write off bad debts.
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Before then, analysts had expected a loss of about 5 cents a share.
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Their main aim is to refine the present rules by matching risks more closely with expected losses to determine the capital charge.
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Most analysts had expected a loss .
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Both companies, however, are expected to post losses for the quarter that ended in December.
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The aircraft maker had warned Wall Street earlier this week that it expected the loss because of production problems.
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Helene Curtis Industries Inc., hurt by weakness in several key markets, reported a bigger-than-\#expected third-quarter loss .
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Despite all these steps, Apple warned earlier this week that it expected to report operating losses through the rest of 1996.
incur
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Motorcycle City lost in the resulting war, incurring massive losses that led to its cut-price sale.
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Mr Davila incurred losses of more than $ 170 million in his 1993 copper trading.
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As it was, some struggled on, more often than not incurring further losses .
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Californian housebuilding incurred a loss of £2.7 million, but should be in profit by next year, Sir Lawrie said.
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They pointed to cases in the past when underwriters had incurred huge losses by moving into an unfamiliar area of business.
lead
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Restricting car access does not necessarily lead to a loss of trade.
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Thus, extirpation of that fish in a stream or river leads inevitably to the loss of the dependent mussel species.
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But clearly can lead to loss of depth.
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Vomiting, however, leads to a loss of gastric hydrochloric acid, and often causes a metabolic alkalosis.
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Insider trading may also lead to a significant loss of confidence in the Stock Exchange, particularly amongst small investors.
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Large volumes of speculative investments leading to losses for the customer might be thought to imply churning.
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That could lead to losses of a significant portion of the 100, 000 tons of city-generated waste handled by county landfills.
mourn
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Although their families still mourn their loss , they have tried to put their grief behind them and rebuild their lives.
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How I envy him his focus and how I mourn for him his loss .
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The Moors wept at leaving Granada and still mourn its loss in their evening prayers.
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In this house the Walls raised nine children, and mourned the loss of three other babies.
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I had been so in love with her, and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling.
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In the case of divorce, the child also mourns the loss of his original family constellation.
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Remember: They may still be mourning the loss of the parent who has died or left home.
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The years fall away and Pennington is a lonely little boy, mourning the loss of his three big sisters.
operate
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The problem with chocolates is that they operate on a loss curve of massively diminishing returns.
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The company actually had sustained a $ 9. 4 million operating loss , excluding the gain.
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But even after all these measures had been adopted a number of projects continued to operate at a hopeless loss .
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As a result, Chrysler expects to post an operating loss between $ 2 billion and $ 2.5 billion this year.
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It posted an operating loss of $ 800, 000, narrowed from $ 3. 2 million in the previous year.
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Despite all these steps, Apple warned earlier this week that it expected to report operating losses through the rest of 1996.
reduce
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They have abandoned leaves to reduce loss of water by transpiration, and their stems are swollen with stored water.
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It may reduce the accelerated bone loss of menopause, even in the absence of estrogen replacement therapy. 3.
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Most desert animals reduce water loss by finding shade in some form or other.
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However, a tighter policy should result in higher quality of accounts receivable and hence reduce bad-debt losses .
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This considerably reduces shrinkage and weight loss .
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Effective as of January 1986, it has reduced fire losses , insurance rates, and fire department costs.
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While insulation will reduce heat loss , it will not necessarily prevent burst pipes.
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Estrogen replacement relieves such symptoms of menopause as hot flashes and night sweats, reduces bone loss and relieves vaginal dryness.
report
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Last month Olivetti reported a loss of 649.9 billion lire in 1992.
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The carrier reported a loss of 3. 3 billion francs in fiscal 1995.
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The company says catering for first time buyers is boosting sales at a time when other builders are reporting big losses .
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Three years later, it reported its worst quarterly loss ever and laid off 16 percent of its work force.
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Midland reported a loss of £261m in 1989.
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A year ago, Netscape reported a loss of $ 1. 6 million, or 3 cents.
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In 1999, Fisher reported a loss of more than Pounds 192m.
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Despite all these steps, Apple warned earlier this week that it expected to report operating losses through the rest of 1996.
result
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The company said that it would result in a significant loss for the year.
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Last season, his picks resulted in losses of $ 2, 370.
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It usually results in the loss of the muscle below the bone.
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The write-downs resulted in a loss for the quarter, Mr Chandler said.
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Since the cost of the research is estimated at 20k this would result in a loss to the company in either case.
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The bureaucrat will almost always say that a budget cut is sure to result in the loss of jobs.
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Areas where this need can arise usually occur when a surgical procedure or accident has resulted in loss of bone.
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Boosting it 10 percent might result in a half-percent loss in jobs that would otherwise be available for teen-agers, he said.
suffer
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Nina put out her hand remembering that he, too, had suffered a loss .
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Public figures suffered a collective loss of esteem.
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Now Lute has suffered a loss beyond words and Tucson is diminished by the passing of one of its nicer people.
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Suppose a plaintiff suffers loss as a result of an illegal administrative decision.
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Here he was suffering this loss , and he was entertaining me.
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Some of them are severely confused through an illness like Alzheimer's disease or are suffering from short-term memory loss .
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Grease fires and theft are among the top reasons tenants suffer losses .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cut your losses
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At that point they just wanted to cut their losses and get out of the business.
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As for Richard, take my advice and cut your losses.
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Be honest with yourself and cut your losses quickly.
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Cawthorne cuts his losses and goes somewhere else.
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I hope Wilko cuts his losses with our Brian and then goes out to look for a decent striker.
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Once he learned to ride his gains and cut his losses, he never looked back.
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One solution was to cut their losses and sell to television.
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Try the risky, potentially spectacular shot, or cut his losses and play safe?
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Usually the wisest thing to do is to cut your losses early on.
feel a death/a loss etc
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Subjects began to feel a loss of control of the course of their thinking.
irretrievable loss
make good a debt/loss etc
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Their use should minimise water use to making good losses through evaporation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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About 35,000 job losses are expected.
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I was sorry to hear about the loss of your mother.
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The company cannot accept liability for loss or damage to a passenger's property.
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three wins and four losses
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Weight loss should be gradual.
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You should report the loss of your passport to the consulate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Earlier AltaVista, the search engine portal, reported losses of $ 307m on revenues of $ 98m in the second quarter.
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For instance, while brain cells do die and are not replaced, their loss is not an explanation for senility.
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How does sleep loss affect the soldier?
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It announced a loss of £2.8m, on a turnover of £13.5m, thanks mainly to write-downs in the depressed property market.
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The girl compensates for her loss by maintaining connectedness with others.
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Trying the case, even to a loss , would help the Republicans, and Starr is a Republican.