noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cruise line/operator (= company that provides cruises )
smooth operator (= someone who does things in a smooth way )
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George is a smooth operator .
tour operator
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Here are the big time smooth operators .
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The group, Britain's biggest coach operator , employs 1,000 people and carries 12m passengers a year.
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The big fleet operators get the biggest discounts - putting the dealers under pressure to maintain higher prices for private buyers.
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I was able to sell out quite profitably to one of the bigger air-freight operators .
human
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Chemical engineering companies found that their very large complex expensive process plants could be controlled better by computer than by human operators .
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Some months ago, they stopped relying on human operators to do so.
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The unique feature of ergonomics is its emphasis on the characteristics of human operators and their relevance to the design of work.
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It is of the utmost importance that it is the mind of the human operator doing the selecting.
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Thus it follows that skill training is more generalised and generalisable and is better fitted to the overall role of human operators .
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Traditional methods of determining such risks have limitations: human operators can become tired and can be distracted.
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In these terms, the human operator is a particular sub-system.
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The human operator has very little or no control over the format or content of the output produced by the computer.
large
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Crime certainly pays for the largest private prison operator in the country.
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Continental has 346, 000 subscribers throughout the region and is the largest cable operator in Los Angeles.
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Verio is the world's largest operator of Web sites for businesses and a leading provider of comprehensive Internet services.
local
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For instance, long-distance and local telephone operators are laying new high-speed fiber optic links to the home.
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It has become such an attraction that local tour operators are beating a path to its door.
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The local operators manage the bread and butter chores of poster production and display, media buys and the like.
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He even finds himself giving out gardening advice to local radio operators from his car.
major
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Ski start: the major tour operators run learn to ski weeks which are especially useful for lone learners.
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Discussions are being held with a major cable operator .
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In addition, many major tour operators include tours of Far Eastern islands in their long-haul programmes.
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But major theater operators think Bay Area filmgoers may be ready to switch.
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Significant contracts were also undertaken for Total, Amoco, Marathon and other major operators .
mobile
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Dimension Data rose 4.1 per cent to R52.90 while mobile phone operator M-Cell jumped 76.6 per cent to R26.65.
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Specifically, the company licenses network diagnosis software to mobile handset operators and network operators.
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The popularity of text messaging has delivered an unlikely windfall for mobile phone network operators .
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But analysts said it could be a target for a media company, internet portal or mobile phone operator seeking content.
other
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When railway travelling commenced, Mr Wright was wiser than many other coach operators .
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What advantages will they and the other operators get out of it?
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Marathon and other operators were also undertaken during the year.
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They are unlikely to welcome other rail operators creaming off their business.
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Significant contracts were also undertaken for Total, Amoco, Marathon and other major operators .
private
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Will the investment in new wagons be justified by private operators or leasing companies given the uncertainty of the market?
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Crime certainly pays for the largest private prison operator in the country.
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Get private operators on the railway and everything will work just fine.
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The brief experience of Stagecoach, the only private operator running regular passenger services, has been mixed.
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Nearly all Britain's hazardous waste is handled by private operators .
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But private operators can turn profits only if prices rise radically and rapidly.
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One of them, set up by six private operators , runs 80 cinemas that meet international standards.
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Fifteen states have passed laws enabling private operators to run roads and railways: the state of Washington did so last month.
skilled
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A complex dedicated simulator can cost several million pounds and it needs its own crew of skilled operators .
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The skilled operator will aim for efficient performance.
small
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In that event, smaller operators stretched to meet margin calls might suffer.
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But it also is threatening the livelihoods of many small business operators in San Diego and elsewhere.
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Most active construction is coming from the smaller chains and operators like Quality Inns.
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The experience of those small business operators , shared with me in understandable confidentiality, is by no means unique.
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Plenty of small operators remain to be gobbled up by big ones able to meet the capital and research costs now required.
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Compared with the small operators they took over, the giant companies deal with a wide range of rubbish.
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On something of a buying binge lately and snapping up smaller cable operators , Cogeco is itself seen as a takeover target.
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At the same time, small operators have been disappearing.
smooth
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Behind the scenes ... chaos ... smooth operators ... and hairdressers everywhere.
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He was then a smooth operator .
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Here are the big time smooth operators .
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He may not look it, but he is a smooth operator .
■ NOUN
bus
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Raids on farms were also reported and public transport was paralysed in the capital, Lima, as bus operators withdrew services.
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Councillors have already held talks with the town's bus operators with a view to reducing the number of vehicles using the centre.
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Sparsity of population in some rural counties of Britain can create considerable problems for bus operators .
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It is intended that this be jointly developed by the Council, the Police and the Region's bus operators .
cable
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On something of a buying binge lately and snapping up smaller cable operators , Cogeco is itself seen as a takeover target.
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This constraint will fade over the next few years as more cable operators upgrade their systems and add more services.
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Continental has 346, 000 subscribers throughout the region and is the largest cable operator in Los Angeles.
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And cable operators are doing all they can to get the government to prevent phone companies from carrying video programming.
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Discussions are being held with a major cable operator .
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A cable system has two types of customers-advertisers and consumers who subscribe to a package of programming offered by the cable operator .
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Eye on People is struggling to persuade cable operators to carry it.
computer
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It wasn't musicians making music, it was computer operators .
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Susan was twenty-two, a computer operator in a large mirror company in an industrial park near their apartment.
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Now he's a computer operator with a firm of designers.
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Charman returned to Brighton and took several temporary jobs before finding permanent work as a computer operator with the Inland Revenue.
machine
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Originally from Ireland, he worked as a machine operator until he was 83.
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It was one thing to tell a machine operator he or she had no choice about being measured.
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At this stage the typical machine operator manipulated machine controls on the basis of data presented on instruments.
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They never discussed with machine operators or engineers how the equipment was maintained.
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A working-class housewife married to a machine operator declares: Housework is boring.
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The machine operator she replaced is unemployed and too old to be re-skilled.
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Example Alan employs Brian as a machine operator .
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The biggest jumps in participation rates were recorded by workers under age 44, minorities, machine operators and laborers.
network
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Specifically, the company licenses network diagnosis software to mobile handset operators and network operators.
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In theory, network operators could target consumers with advertising, but this would raise technical and privacy issues not easily resolved.
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Anite provides testing solutions for network operators , and has invested heavily in both acquisitions and research and development in this area.
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The fear of pending competition has forced network operators to spend heavily on upgrades.
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The popularity of text messaging has delivered an unlikely windfall for mobile phone network operators .
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At present, wide disparities remain among different network operators in terms of both efficiency and pricing.
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Aimed at network operators and telecommunications providers, the resulting products are intended to enable them introduce new value-added services and products.
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Standard Insurance Company, for example, placed students with employees ranging from lawyers to accountants to computer network operators .
phone
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Dimension Data rose 4.1 per cent to R52.90 while mobile phone operator M-Cell jumped 76.6 per cent to R26.65.
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But analysts said it could be a target for a media company, internet portal or mobile phone operator seeking content.
radio
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He began to receive messages purporting to come from his deceased friend, who had been a radio operator .
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Everybody was shook but especially the other radio operator and myself.
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If the radio operator kept his mouth shut, the transgression might not get to the ears of his superiors.
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Back at bomber command, the radio operator received the distress call.
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He even finds himself giving out gardening advice to local radio operators from his car.
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At 1.20 a.m. the ferry's radio operator sent out the first Mayday call.
switchboard
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One switchboard operator said that at this moment in time she didn't know.
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He went back to your hotel and had a very interesting chat with the switchboard operator .
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The switchboard operator rang an extension.
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He asked the switchboard operator to connect him with Whitely Prison and waited.
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Finally they informed me that they had a position open for switchboard operators .
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I'd ring them up to complain but I'd never get past the switchboard operator before it stopped working again.
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Nevertheless, Levi is offering Opto Plus a switchboard operator and plenty of free jeans.
telephone
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Omar had bribed the telephone operator to leave his office, but I did not trust him to stay away.
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I also remember talking to live telephone operators .
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He heard Mrs Hassock's voice from below - she was obviously responding to the telephone operator .
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Women worked as schoolteachers, secretaries, clerks or telephone operators .
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Former telephone operators fitted the bill perfectly - They're naturals' claimed Mr Irwin.
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For instance, long-distance and local telephone operators are laying new high-speed fiber optic links to the home.
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For example, customer enquiries and correspondence can be scanned into the computer system on receipt, or entered by the telephone operator .
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A high percentage of telephone operators are black, for example, but only a very small proportion of dental hygienists are.
tour
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Responsible tour operators have recognized the problem and are doing all in their power to stop it.
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Do not buy a policy from the wholesale tour operator from which you bought your trip.
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It would be no good us offering just tour operator packages.
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Need help in checking on the reliability of a travel agency or tour operator ?
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And resorts, tour operators and shops can not afford to advertise if they are on the breadline.
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These should be confirmed with travel agents or tour operators .
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Euro Disney claims that one of its tour operators has sold 70 percent of its first three months of Euro Disney allocations.
■ VERB
allow
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To do that, however, you would have to allow the operators to advertise.
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The most significant thing about the system is that it allows the operator to lay out pages on the screen.
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Status would allow operators to see at a glance which items of safety-related equipment were in proper working order.
require
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It requires concentration by the operator but, again, I would not let the speaker do it himself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a day-care center operator .
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a political operator
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a tour operator
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an elevator operator
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Dial "0" to get the operator .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the same token, cinemas had no operators, and so few halls remained open.
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Keith, a general operator at Associated Octel's plant in Ellesmere Port, is thrilled to see his brother back home.
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Life insurers and nursing home operators plot their own windfalls.
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The boat will then by put to the test by operators and their views canvassed.
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The system provides operators with detailed real-time analysis of the status of all of their fleets.
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When the end of the column was over the steel baseplate, the crane operator lowered it slowly into position.