I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a maximum/minimum length
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This species of fish can reach a maximum length of 12 inches.
a maximum/minimum term
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The maximum term was life imprisonment.
a minimum charge (= an amount that is the least you can pay )
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There’s a minimum charge of £10 per person in the Terrace restaurant.
a minimum requirement
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That certificate is a minimum requirement for entry to music college.
bare minimum (= the smallest amount possible )
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The room had the bare minimum of furniture.
be kept to a minimum
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Costs must be kept to a minimum .
minimum security prison
minimum wage
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Most of the junior office staff are on the minimum wage being paid the lowest legal amount .
the minimum age
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16 years is the minimum age to drive a car.
the minimum wage (= the lowest amount of money that an employer can legally pay to a worker )
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a rise in the minimum wage
with...minimum of fuss
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The Steamatic enables you to clean any carpet with the minimum of fuss .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
age
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Loan secured by endowment mortgage, minimum age 20 years.
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The draft treaty is also vague on the question of a new minimum age for voluntary recruits.
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The course is open to people of all nationalities and religious affiliations, and the minimum age is 15 years.
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The nationwide minimum age of 18 to buy cigarettes and chewing tobacco remains in force.
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Another 21 of the 38 death-penalty states either have a minimum age of 16 or no minimum.
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The execution of juvenile offenders is extremely rare and at least 72 countries set 18 as the minimum age for the death penalty.
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The Education Act of 1870 set out to provide elementary schools for children up to a minimum age of ten throughout the country.
amount
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They want as many rabbits as possible for the minimum amount of effort and time commitment.
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But there was enough esprit de corps among our group to overcome this discomfort with a minimum amount of grumbling.
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The interpretation of the data is simple and requires a minimum amount of calculation.
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Usually whether a facility or activity is regulated is defined by whether it deals with more than minimum amounts of specified substances.
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Individual claims will be restricted by a minimum amount .
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But they had another requirement: to make sure that this was done safely with the minimum amount of steel.
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Residents pay for their care according to their means and all will have at least a minimum amount of money for personal use.
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Sprinkle the minimum amount of salt needed to lower the freezing point of water from slippery ice to safer mushy slush.
balance
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All or part of the investment can be withdrawn without notice or penalty, provided the minimum balance stays at £10,000.
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This minimum balance that the firm is required to maintain is referred to as a compensating balance.
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The minimum balance is US$1,000 or the equivalent in the major currencies and US$3,000 otherwise.
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The minimum balance is the equivalent of US$10,000 in major currencies and US$15,000 otherwise.
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There is no restriction on the amount you can withdraw as long as you maintain the minimum balance of £10,000 in your account.
cost
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Some districts are relying on minimum cost rather than good value.
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Elected representatives have poor information on the minimum costs needed to supply a public service.
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I am also interested in motoring at minimum cost !
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We should also address issues such as our abort fees or minimum costs or indeed a retainer.
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Many potential purchasers can be easily identified with minimum cost using research.
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The principle is simple: the way to survive and prosper is to gain maximum production at minimum cost .
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According to the government, it's a figure which isn't expected to bear any relation to the minimum cost of living.
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Thus the minimum cost of a reasonably diversified portfolio would be 30,000-40,000.
deposit
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Both account providers require a minimum deposit of £ 5,000, and both pay higher rates on larger balances.
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Most Partnership Accounts have a minimum deposit of £100.
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Those with a minimum deposit of £500 receive 7 per cent.
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The authorities could restrict hire purchase credit by specifying minimum deposits or maximum repayment periods.
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Lambeth's Cat's Whiskers account pays 6.90 per cent on a minimum deposit of £100.
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The society will pay 7.3 per cent on a minimum deposit of £1,000, although savers must give 30 days' notice.
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The minimum deposit we ask for is £10,000.
income
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These reforms will ensure that every citizen is guaranteed a decent minimum income , whether or not they are in employment.
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Work itself may be a pleasure and the monetary reward may be of limited importance after a minimum income is gained.
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A price-indexed minimum income was assured to protect the unemployed.
investment
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The minimum investment is £100, with a maximum of £20,000.
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Janus also raised its minimum investment for individual retirement accounts to $ 500 from $ 250.
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There is no minimum investment and switching is available at no dealing cost.
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The minimum investment in these accounts is often as low as £2,500-sometimes even less.
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Taylor-Young Investment Management accepts minimum investments of £50,000 for its unit and investment trust service and £100,000 for a wider portfolio.
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The minimum investment is set at £500 with an initial charge of 5 percent plus an annual fee of 1 percent.
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Both require a minimum investment of £1, give instant access and include gifts.
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The minimum investment is £2,500 and you may deposit up to £25,000.
level
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Restrictions on rights of audience ensure that persons appearing as representatives before courts have a minimum level of competence as advocates.
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Schools are guaranteed a minimum level of funding spelled out by Proposition 98, approved by voters in 1988.
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Above the minimum level , the risk increases with intake.
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Third, as a policy matter, normal prudence suggests that some minimum level of cash on hand should be maintained.
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These call for a minimum level of earnings at strategic intervals throughout the relationship.
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In addition to this financing need, the desired minimum level of $ 2, 000 must also be considered.
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The minimum levels for Key Stages 1 to 4 were to be, respectively, levels 1,2,3 and 4.
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A minimum level is set and those at or above that level are then selected by non-academic criteria.
number
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A suggested minimum number of cycles is six.
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But we only had a minimum number of players.
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Only the minimum number of officers necessary will visit homes and parents will always be told what they are doing and why.
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You also can indicate the minimum number of bedrooms, and can state minimum and maximum prices.
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No minimum number of books to buy. 3.
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The issue becomes one of the minimum number of neurons needed before compensation fails.
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Subsequently excavations have revealed a minimum number of three kilns in an area 40 metres to the west.
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For both types the minimum number of students enrolled qualifying for grant-aid was fixed at nine.
period
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The minimum period for service varies in relation to different applications.
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It was Lord Woolf who reduced the minimum period they must serve.
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The minimum period of disqualification is two years and the maximum period is 15 years.
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There is no maximum or minimum period .
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Certain smaller building societies have minimum periods for notice or a penal charge of interest for a shorter period.
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In most cases, this initial period will count towards the minimum period of study for the degree.
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After a minimum period of five days stability they were eligible for randomisation and inclusion into the trial.
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The minimum period of study is normally 12 months full-time.
price
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All the major players now offer a range of minimum price contracts, which will use options and futures indirectly.
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Farm price supports become low maximum rather than high minimum prices.
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But it will deal a blow to the agreement, which allows publishers to set a minimum price for most books.
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Current federal farm programs often guarantee growers a minimum price even if the market price drops lower.
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This is similar to a put option that guarantees investors a minimum price at which they can sell their shares.
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A published reserve is the minimum price the owners will accept, Rosenthal said.
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See Chapter 12 for a discussion of the effects of minimum price fluctuations.
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It was therefore in their interest to get a minimum price fixed for the cloth.
rate
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The minimum rate for workers aged 21 and under will rise by20p to £ 3.20 in June.
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Work out the minimum rate of descent for this outbound leg.
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The speculative demand becomes virtually infinite at this minimum rate of interest.
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If the inbound time is 3 minutes, then the minimum Rate of Descent will be 700 ft/min.
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No minimum rate of descent planned.
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The agreed rates are only minimum rates.
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Under any new system, the Government has made plain that it will lay down the minimum rates of benefit.
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Have all times and minimum rates of descent worked out on a still-air basis first of all.
requirement
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However, the following proposals are tentatively put forward as minimum requirements for most kinds of library. 1.
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Check to make sure you meet the minimum requirements for using a cable modem.
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As far as minimum requirements go, you will need to take at least one blank video cassette with you.
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In terms of study leave, some organisations were not convinced that the Institute's minimum requirement of 20 weeks was necessary.
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This conflicts both with a brute biological concern for children, and with the minimum requirements of civilized morality.
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He pointed out that large groups such as Hilton and Holiday Inns were already investing in fire protection beyond the minimum requirements .
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In Chapter 2 I gave a breakdown of the five minimum requirements of the graph search mechanism.
size
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What should be the minimum size of order acceptable for credit?
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There is no need for a minimum size .
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A minimum size of holding was necessary for this, varying with circumstances.
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It will have a minimum size of £27.5m and a maximum of £67.5m, depending on the level of take-up.
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Then they pass zoning laws specifying a minimum size for a house and its garden.
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What is the minimum size of portfolio brokers require?
standard
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The Acts lay down a minimum standard for air quality, and impose pollution emission controls to particular polluters.
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Collective bargaining is a flexible instrument and can build upon the minimum standards which the law lays down.
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The directive is based on minimum standards - but I am caught out by the time, Madam Deputy Speaker.
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Chief technical officer Billy Dodds said the minimum standards were adequate and cover would be increased in line with the number of bathers.
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Ford has continued to raise the minimum standard for the award - and by 1991 will use only suppliers that meet it.
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Certain services, such as education, have minimum standards imposed by Parliament.
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We will require local authorities to define minimum standards of accessibility in their areas and draw up transport plans which meet them.
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Supervision of offices Rule 13 of the Solicitors' Practice Rules 1991 sets out the minimum standards required.
wage
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There is a need to introduce a statutory minimum wage .
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Unions have asked that the minimum wage of 145 pesos a day be raised as much as 35 pesos.
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Mr. Bowis A minimum wage involves the Government dictating to private employers what they should pay their workers.
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And the Democrats in Congress have bedeviled Dole with a push for a raise in the minimum wage .
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However in 1912, after a series of strikes, a rather reluctant government granted the miners a statutory minimum wage .
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The White House sidestepped questions about linking the gas tax repeal with the minimum wage .
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She saw low pay as the root of the problem and from 1896 began to campaign for the legal minimum wage .
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The average weaver today makes less than minimum wage , with beginners earning as little as $ 1 an hour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The minimum age to buy cigarettes is 18.
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The minimum order is five hundred business cards.
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What is the minimum wage these days?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it is not merely the minimum content of natural law which supports such a view.
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He will call for a higher minimum wage.
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It will lay down minimum terms for a new manufacturer's guarantees.
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Overall both Namurian and Visean gradients are comparable with that for the Westphalian minimum uplift composite trend.
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So one perennial idea getting a second wind is the campaign to raise the pitifully low current minimum wage.
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The governor is proposing the minimum increase for schools required by Proposition 98.
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The local shop paid Mino the legal minimum wage, but worked him twice the legal number of hours.
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This is the minimum daily amount of a nutrient required by an adult to prevent symptoms of deficiency.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
absolute
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As an absolute minimum they will hold the member liable for any failure to supervise.
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Which is not to say that you should not try to reduce your taxes to the absolute legal minimum .
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However, the objective must be to reduce the intake of all pesticides to the absolute minimum .
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In principle, platform numbers should be kept to an absolute minimum .
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Everyone, whether on a slimming diet or not, should reduce this kind of sugar to an absolute minimum .
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Weighing ten kilograms a pair, I have to make sure the rest of my belongings are kept to an absolute minimum .
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Make do with the absolute minimum .
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Expatriate vehicles are kept to an absolute minimum , and site offices are merely caravans.
bare
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The bare minimum required to keep the account open.
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Leaders like that get only the bare minimum of effort and never rouse employees to cooperative activity.
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The role of government in macroeconomic management had to be pruned to a bare minimum .
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Or Sally Jessy, bare minimum .
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It is generally sensible to limit the additional capabilities that the new desktop publishing product will give you to the bare minimum .
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Challenge it and challenge it again until it's at a bare minimum .
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With the underfloor heating at a bare minimum , it gave out considerably more heat than wood, and I loathed it.
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In Alabama's West Jefferson Prison inmates are kept in tiny cells, with the bare minimum of furniture.
legal
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Which is not to say that you should not try to reduce your taxes to the absolute legal minimum .
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It was exactly three metres by four, the legal minimum for a residential room.
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Those who live in normally receive room and board plus a wage - often well below the legal minimum .
■ VERB
cost
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Back in 1949 it cost a minimum of four shillings for a mention in the InMemoriam section.
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Lawyers told him it will cost a minimum of $ 10, 000 to fight back in court.
keep
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We hope the court proceedings will be concluded quickly, so that the period of uncertainty is kept to a minimum .
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We said we would keep publicity to a minimum .
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Finance is usually the first issue which needs consideration: How do you keep tax to a minimum ?
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An increase in the number of individual interactive services is possible only if network overloading is kept to a strict minimum .
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In principle, platform numbers should be kept to an absolute minimum .
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Weighing ten kilograms a pair, I have to make sure the rest of my belongings are kept to an absolute minimum .
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So City Hall made sure our carnal vices were kept to a public minimum .
need
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Because the process is extremely flexible, customers no longer need to buy a minimum of one tonne of alloy.
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You need £1,000 minimum for its One Year Investment Certificate, which pays 10.5 percent gross.
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He needed the minimum of cover to drop out of sight, whenever it suited him.
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Anyone setting out to equip himself fully needs the barest minimum of two ferrets.
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At tea they were 161 for three, still needing 223 off a minimum of 32 overs.
pay
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But the ruling says they can only pay the bare minimum .
reduce
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Surely the Government have a responsibility to investigate mechanisms to reduce failures to a minimum .
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All too often attention is directed away from the present encounter to the next so that response is reduced to a minimum .
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The regulation of big business by Federal Commissions was reduced to a minimum .
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The laughter was reduced to a minimum .
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In view of the substantial sums of money involved, risks must be reduced to the absolute minimum .
require
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Obviously the software must be easy to use and manipulate, requiring the minimum of pre-knowledge and training.
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Dad was to bring Mama her breakfast, since that required a minimum of skill to prepare.
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Registration required a minimum of 100 founder members.
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Each take-over required a minimum of two advisers: one for the raider and another for his prey.
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This is very convenient for the user as it requires the minimum of handling.
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Kept separate, and if possible clean, such materials require a minimum of preparation for recycling.
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The groups police their own work and require the minimum of supervision.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He usually just pays the minimum each month on his credit cards.
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Let's try to keep irrelevant comments to a minimum .
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The hospital has reduced staffing to an absolute minimum .
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You have to stay for a minimum of 7 days.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A minimum of £60,000 would be needed to cover fees for two children attending public school from age nine to 18.
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A player must serve a minimum of 12 consecutive months before becoming a full member.
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Employees do a minimum of hand-machining work and instead spend most of their time assembling pre-cut pieces.
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For Lloyd's sales however, the minimum is £150,000.
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Maximum of 10 students per group and minimum of 4.
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These structures need to be erected and dismantled quickly with a minimum of disturbance whilst encountering many difficult locations.
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This time the concept was approved and details worked out with a minimum of controversy.