adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an online chat (= one had with someone over the internet )
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With MSN you can have an online chat with your friends.
an online dictionary (= one you can use on the Internet )
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There are plenty of online dictionaries available free on the Internet.
book online (= on the Internet )
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It’s much easier to book tickets online.
online auction
online banking
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
access
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Around 80 finance users required online access alongside an additional 200 cost-centre managers.
auction
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There are millions of goods for sale in thousands of categories across hundreds of online auctions .
bank
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Three people have been arrested after Britain's first alleged attempted online bank robbery was thwarted.
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Egg, the online bank , last month boasted of continued high growth in new customers.
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As a result, more than 4m people have online bank accounts.
broker
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These provide the contact details and an indication of charges for more than 20 online brokers .
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Instead, online brokers will emerge as intermediaries.
business
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Has this neglect of basic business principles destroyed the credibility of all online business ventures?
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The list profiled 30 online business-to-business leaders.
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The main targets would be large corporations with online business-to-business activities.
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Verio will also provide customers with a comprehensive range of productivity-enhancing managed services needed to run their online business effectively.
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This is a strategically important move in the development of our online business in the teenage market.
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In the other five companies, the planning department makes a greater use of online business information services than any other department.
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McKesson expects to retain most of the 2,200 workers employed in the online business .
catalogue
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The online catalogue has exposed obstacles to effective retrieval which library and catalogue users have faced all along in previous manual systems.
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The online catalogue was a spin-off which did not stem from any desire to serve the user better.
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Almost all of them were familiar with some online catalogue .
catalogues
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Most online catalogues and some online hosts provide this facility.
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How can we then account for the high occurrence of subject searches on online catalogues ?
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User satisfaction is another criterion which may provide a more global measure to evaluate interactive online catalogues .
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With automated bibliographic files and online catalogues , browsing has also been applied to searching in computer systems.
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Those who initially questioned whether or not the online catalogues were in fact catalogues may have recognized the difference in essence.
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Second, many online catalogues do not provide search functions which are powerful or flexible enough to permit exhaustive or precise searching.
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In implementing today's online catalogues , librarians are having to make complex decisions about catalogue user behaviour and needs.
chat
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This led to a new kind of online chat service with the generic name of instant messaging.
database
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Companies were also asked whether they accessed information held on online databases .
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It is a huge, detailed, online database of construction products.
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Gateways are available to online databases such as Profile and Kompass to support project work and research.
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The first commercial online databases appeared in 1967 and since then the industry has grown slowly.
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An online database , the electronic equivalent of Biological Abstracts.
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Using online databases may not be the best method for assessing research activity.
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This is supplemented by the department's own financial analyses which it puts on to its own financial online database .
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All this makes the following statements promoting recent seminars on online database systems not only misguided, but silly!
information
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The objectives for instruction in online information retrieval have been outlined above.
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The source of online information , however, is often hard to identify.
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During the last ten years there has been a rapid growth in availability of computer-based online information retrieval systems.
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D., a provider of online information , lost 3. 0 million pounds on revenues of 9. 6 million.
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The growth in computer-based online information retrieval has been accompanied by an ever-increasing number of promotion, training and education courses.
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Early evaluation studies were directed towards the use of specific media - introductory MEDIATRON-multimedia programmes for online information retrieval.
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In all cases they considered the limitations of online information specific to their own needs to be a major deficiency.
presence
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If a shop doesn't offer secure purchasing, it's not serious about its online presence .
retailer
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Existing companies-bookstores, for example-are taking defensive action against online retailers .
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Shipping costs can cut deeply into the discounts offered by online retailers .
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Downloadable versions went on sale for £8.17-£1.73 less than the printed paperback-at online retailers including Waterstone's.
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But what does an online retailer want with a journalist like Benson?
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Currently only 9 per cent of frauds reported by online retailers to the police lead to a prosecution.
service
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If you have an older computer with a slower modem, stick with an online service .
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In addition to disc based, off-line systems, there may well be demands for multimedia online services too.
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The Internet is: A.. An online service .
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In general this is obtained by undertaking a survey through the online services .
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That also applies to those who subscribe to an online service and have outgrown it.
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The service also makes substantial use of non-book materials, running a successful online service for which a charge is made.
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The Palo Alto startup is quietly developing an online service that will help businesses and consumers choose and manage health plans.
system
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For example, some types of multimedia applications will involve online systems which combine live television information with other digital data.
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These features which have been originally built into online systems to improve system performance are of considerable instructional value to searchers.
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In this field, online systems are not merely desirable.
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However, multimedia may also be utilised to make online systems more friendly.
user
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An attempt has therefore been made to formulate goals and objectives for online user education from this point of view.
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All three of these types of goals and objectives are involved in online user education.
world
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News Corp officials also emphasise that the company's moves both in and out of the online world have been modest.
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For Richard Goldman, the online world is no mere diversion.
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The International Trademark Association argued that this safeguard is essential to keep order in the online world .
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That scenario also is a good way to think about the online world .
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We are now looking forward to doing the same in the online world .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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online banking
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I'll just go online and look up her address.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before downloading any beta software, check the appropriate Usenet news group or online service forum for possible complaints about the software.
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Kick Media's network will include major branded magazine, movie, retail, online games, clothing and speciality shop sites.
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Perhaps you already are an online devotee, a chatroom habitue.
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Some of this material can be found elsewhere in a growing number of online resources related to trade.
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The online journal of current clinical trials, a scientific electronic journal, is to be launched this month.
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There are two possible explanations: the online environment either created a new demand or stimulated an existing inherent need.
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These features which have been originally built into online systems to improve system performance are of considerable instructional value to searchers.
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This is just another unfortunate blip in the evolution of online services.