I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a maternity hospital British English (= for women having babies )
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Many maternity hospitals have been forced to close.
maternity clothes (= for women who are having a baby )
maternity leave (= time that a mother is allowed away from work to have and take care of a new baby )
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Two teachers were off on maternity leave.
maternity leave
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Karen will be on maternity leave next month.
maternity pay (= pay while a woman takes time off to have a baby )
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If you have worked here a year, you are entitled to 3 month’s maternity pay.
maternity wear (= for pregnant women )
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The shop sells comfortable and fashionable maternity wear for every occasion.
maternity/general/geriatric etc ward (= a ward for people with a particular medical condition )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
leave
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The present 18 weeks maternity leave will be extended to 26 weeks.
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In addition, co-anchor Katie Couric is currently on maternity leave .
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And paid maternity leave will go up from 18 to 24 weeks.
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Rarely have they bargained aggressively for benefits such as maternity leave or more help with child care.
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As the days remaining in her six-week maternity leave fizzled away, she wavered back and forth.
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Sattel says Lucasfilm offers paid one-week paternity and adoption leaves; maternity leaves are usually covered by disability programs.
ward
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It seems the merest flash since Jack and I were gingerly bringing home our own babies from the maternity wards .
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She kept busy in the maternity ward faxing lists back to the office.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
maternity/sick/compassionate leave
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Accumulating days for sick leave proved to be a trap.
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Generally a trend of sick leave or requests for transfers by other women who have worked for this person will emerge.
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I could take the afternoon off from work as sick leave .
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If the technology is not firm-wide train an extra secretary to cover for others who are on holiday or sick leave .
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Joe and Eileen were given short compassionate leave and Stephen came home for the funeral.
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She was then shown a picture taken at the farewell party at Champion Spark Plugs just before Paula went on maternity leave .
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These work-force-centered benefits helped businesses retain their most valuable employees. Sick leave policies changed.
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When they go on sick leave , their aggregate take-home pay is actually higher than when they are on the job.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Maternity clothes are more stylish than they used to be.
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maternity clothes
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a maternity hospital
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Most women who take maternity leave look forward to returning to their jobs.
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Which way to the maternity ward?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the maternity unit is widely expected to close at the end of this month.
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In addition, co-anchor Katie Couric is currently on maternity leave.
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In the high-visibility, emotionally compelling cases such as maternity stays, an uproar resulted.
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It seems the merest flash since Jack and I were gingerly bringing home our own babies from the maternity wards.
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Laws extending health insurance and maternity leave?
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Rarely have they bargained aggressively for benefits such as maternity leave or more help with child care.
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She learned to sew and made maternity smocks he tried to admire.
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The present 18 weeks maternity leave will be extended to 26 weeks.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
benefit
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The charter covers not only salaries, a minimum wage and maternity benefit but deals with many issues.
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A 30s. maternity benefit was to be paid to the wives of insured men.
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The new system should, it was argued, include family allowances, maternity benefits and provision for widows.
hospital
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Rituals and Cults Childbirth classes; procedures and routines of maternity hospitals and midwifery.
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My wife still knows a person born shortly after her at the same maternity hospital .
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He's using a veterinary ultrasound scanner adapted from machines used in maternity hospitals .
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Our study population comprised men born in one maternity hospital during 1907-24.
leave
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The University has a generous maternity leave scheme.
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Britain also objected to the new directive on maternity leave .
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I am working part-time, but my maternity leave begins next month.
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A few weeks earlier she had taken maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plugs factory in Upton.
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Women with less than one year's service are eligible to apply for unpaid maternity leave .
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Maternity benefits and an increase in maternity leave are also being offered by some companies.
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Angela was working part-time when she took her second period of maternity leave .
pay
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You may also be entitled to departmental maternity pay during some of this period.
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What if we have our own maternity pay scheme?
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She got full maternity leave and prorata maternity pay .
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The rate of maternity pay will be no lower than the Statutory Sick Pay rate.
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An agreement was reached yesterday which represents a sensible balance on maternity pay .
unit
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But now Banbury doctors are worried about that department's future, along with the childrens ward, and the maternity unit .
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Kim's story Kim gave birth to baby Rosie earlier this year, in a large maternity unit in outer London.
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He remembered the maternity unit - long closed, the day care centre and the wards, all with their characteristics.
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Their local maternity unit was working overtime.
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Display material and literature relevant to restraint of infants have been posted in hospitals and maternity units in the Region.
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Our analysis is based on the 17 maternity units that sent data from 1985 until 1989 without interruption.
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Later that evening she went into labour and was transferred to the maternity unit .
ward
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Sands will also raise funds for the maternity ward at Darlington Memorial Hospital.
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And we spent all day in maternity ward .
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You won't be surprised to hear that Sangenic is already being used in maternity wards .
■ VERB
take
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She reckons if she takes time off for maternity leave she won't get back in.
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A few weeks earlier she had taken maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plugs factory in Upton.
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So it's pretty unusual ... So in fact I took maternity leave only up to the maximum.
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Make sure that your employees know: they must tell you at least 21 days before they plan to take maternity leave.
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After becoming pregnant, she made arrangements to take maternity leave from November 1990 to February 1991.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But also the whole agenda of maternity and child welfare and its subsequent implementation was promoted by the guild.
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Enormous improvements have been made there and £1m was provided in 1989 for new maternity and ante natal facilities.
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The predictions are that this will go further to encompass accident and emergency, maternity and even psychiatry.