noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
downward
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The working class is more uniform in origins than ever before because downward mobility has declined.
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Short Cuts captures the moment when the postwar economic boom began its decline into downward mobility .
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Unemployment is also a significant cause of downward mobility in Britain.
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This suggests that, inpart, the housewife's dissatisfaction with her work is a function of downward social mobility .
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Students were experiencing a sense of decline, both in terms of material and social positions, a form of downward social mobility .
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It has also resulted in downward mobility for a significant proportion of the working class.
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Along with his intensely loyal family he struggles hard to achieve downward mobility .
electrophoretic
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Figure 3 indicates that complexes exhibiting the same electrophoretic mobility were generated with all three extracts.
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The low-density lipoproteins, also known as the beta lipoproteins have an electrophoretic mobility which is slightly slower than the prebeta fraction.
geographical
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Evidence for this is provided by the relatively low rates of geographical mobility in Britain as compared with other countries.
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This project is intended to explore the complex relationship between geographical mobility and voting.
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This brings us to our third point, that of geographical mobility as it affects different social groups.
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Though geographical mobility is possible, to move means severing all the social ties which the miner has built up.
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In areas of geographical mobility people may be neighbours who are culturally strangers.
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These decisions may well also be affected by geographical mobility both for employment and retirement.
great
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These changes, together with a greater mobility in the workforce made possible by an expansion of car ownership, created a vacuum.
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Another factor cited for low voter turnout by young people was their greater mobility .
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The greater your mobility the less likely you will be to suffer aches and pains brought on by stiffness.
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Above all I loved the feeling of great mobility , of continually heading off to new and different places.
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Public-sector housing provision, which might have allowed for greater mobility , declined in the 1970s and 1980s.
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But birds, with their great mobility , have evolved to cope with many of those problems.
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Abrams referred to greater mobility and greater choice as weakening the traditional neighbour's ties.
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Technical advances in fleece continue apace such as with the stretch version which gives improved insulation and greater mobility through a closer fit.
high
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Some of these ways entail high spatial mobility and others do not.
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The result is that their high social mobility does not entail high levels of long distance spatial mobility.
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They should be designed to the highest mobility standards, making them easy and safe to move around in.
increased
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The experience of these writers was seen as emblematic of the increased social mobility that characterized post-war Britain.
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This increased mobility is seen by Naville as a source of great dissatisfaction.
occupational
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Tied housing therefore acted as a brake on occupational mobility .
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Greater childrearing participation does not generally translate into lower occupational mobility for fathers.
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These repercussions generally follow because of induced changes in patterns of migration, commuting and occupational mobility .
personal
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The most basic of these relates to personal physical mobility , which can be impaired by physical handicap or old age.
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So public housing fails to provide for personal mobility in changing relationships, or for different needs that people may have.
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Co-ordinated public transport planning; Personal mobility with particular emphasis on disabled people.
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Accessibility as a concept is discussed in chapter 6; here it is sufficient to mention its implications for personal mobility .
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These households, already disadvantaged in terms of personal mobility , can thus be further disadvantaged.
social
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Increased social mobility has further added to the isolation of older people.
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Sport constituted an avenue of social mobility for any slave willing and capable enough to pit his sporting skills against another.
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And so we look, with increasing desperation, toward the institutions that have fostered social mobility in the past.
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Department of Social Security mobility payments to buy or lease a car.
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That was why the great forces of social mobility were failing for this generation of the poor.
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The result is that their high social mobility does not entail high levels of long distance spatial mobility.
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The experience of these writers was seen as emblematic of the increased social mobility that characterized post-war Britain.
spatial
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Some of these ways entail high spatial mobility and others do not.
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High levels of spatial mobility are involved as he is regularly posted to regions where the multinational is operating.
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Social mobility , therefore, is again closely linked to spatial mobility.
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The result is that their high social mobility does not entail high levels of long distance spatial mobility.
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However, there remain major differences in levels of spatial mobility for different social groups.
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Taking, firstly, class-based urban and regional sociology on its own terms, social and spatial mobility is a major deficiency.
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Indeed, the recent decline in spatial mobility means that daily life is increasingly limited to relatively small regions.
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Peasants certainly lacked the spatial mobility required for regular participation in the politics of the realm.
upward
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Neither is upward mobility , rising income or independence a necessary consequence of their diligence.
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In a society that valued upward mobility , formal education became a gateway to economic and social success.
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More recently, multinationals and foreign capital, with all their implications, have made vertical upward mobility difficult.
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Jeff is already a victim but his actions could alter the balance and restore the upward mobility of his career. 2.
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The legal profession served as a means of upward social mobility for Burghers, Sinhalese and Tamils.
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He is a wholly conscious arriviste, half proud and half ashamed of both his middle-class background and his upward mobility .
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Self-improvement and upward mobility became suspect in the general Sixties backlash against bourgeois materialism.
■ NOUN
allowance
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Free car parking to people in receipt of mobility allowance and claiming exemption from road fund duty.
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These are child benefits, industrial injuries and death benefits, certain invalidity benefits, and attendance and mobility allowances .
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Female speaker Children under 5 aren't eligible for mobility allowance to help the parents with transport.
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The mobility allowance amounted initially to £10 a week and was recognised as anything but adequate.
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We will increase Invalidity Benefit by 15%, extend mobility allowance and base payments on medical records rather than National Insurance contributions.
labour
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The introduction of the Resettlement Transfer Scheme in 1948 was the beginning of post-war labour mobility policies.
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Efficiency With labour mobility , inefficiency can arise from fiscal spending in different localities.
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Clearly the labour mobility programmes have transferred fewer workers than the number of jobs created by regional policies.
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The abolition of serfdom would therefore be a necessary precondition of free labour mobility .
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Firstly, harmonisation of national policies, especially in areas where it offers obvious advantages, e.g. labour mobility .
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This ties health insurance to employment, which impedes labour mobility and is unfair to the self-employed and unemployed.
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This is another indication that regional and labour mobility policies are not always in conflict with each other.
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Because labour mobility between industries ensures that wage rates are equated in the two industries.
shift
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Electrophoretic mobility shift assays Oct-11 and Oct-2 proteins were expressed in E.coli as protein A-fusions.
■ VERB
achieve
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Along with his intensely loyal family he struggles hard to achieve downward mobility .
give
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If globalisation is to mean anything, it has to give rights of mobility to labour as well as goods and money.
increase
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All this added to the general upheavals in the Hindu population, increasing its social mobility .
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Much can be done to increase mobility and to ease pain and discomfort.
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This has further increased the importance of mobility .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Pawlawksi will have to lose weight to improve his mobility .
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Shuttles will give mobility to employees without cars.
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The weakening of bone tissue has a considerable effect on an elderly person's mobility .
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There is a large degree of mobility among public accountants.
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You'll experience some loss of mobility for a few weeks after the operation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Employees therefore had a vested interest in remaining with their firm since job mobility was restricted.
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Greater mobility has bred greater volatility.
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Social mobility and elite circulation might increase, and the ruling group might become more heterogeneous, but government must remain oligarchic.
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The legal profession served as a means of upward social mobility for Burghers, Sinhalese and Tamils.
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These large gametes will inevitably be produced in smaller numbers and they will lack mobility .
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These systems provide users with an unprecedented degree of mobility and flexibility.