noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a product range
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We need to broaden our product range.
beauty products
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Millions of dollars are spent each year on beauty products .
consumer goods/products (= things that people buy for their own use )
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Our demand for consumer goods increases all the time.
end product
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a high-quality end product
finished product
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It took a long time to do, but the finished product was worth it.
flagship product
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the company’s flagship product
food products
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The nutrient content of most food products is displayed on the packaging.
gross domestic product
gross national product
household goods/products/items etc
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washing powder and other household products
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household chores
inferior goods/products
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The public are being deceived into buying inferior goods.
milk product
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I’ve tried to cut down on milk products.
product launch
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a new product launch
product placement
skincare products
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expensive skincare products
Universal Product Code
waste product
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nuclear waste products
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
agricultural
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They can provide extension services for farmers and invest in industries to process agricultural products .
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Cargill is an international processor and distributor and agricultural and food products .
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Guaranteed prices for agricultural products have created a knock-on effect resulting in high land prices and high food costs.
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Over one million tonnes of agricultural related products pass over the quays in Belfast each year.
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Trade in agricultural products would be covered by bilateral agreements.
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Rural areas supplied not only agricultural products but also a considerable proportion of manufacturing output.
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The initiative will allow the entrepreneurs to test new approaches to agriculture or develop new agricultural products and activities.
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Saouma called for fair trade terms to allow developing countries to sell their agricultural products to the industrialized countries.
domestic
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It now accounts for only 20 to 25 percent. of the total gross domestic product of Britain.
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Dini said inflation was kept to a moderate pace during the year, even as gross domestic product rose 3 percent.
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But how important is another domestic product launch in 1992?
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An inflation measure linked to the gross domestic product had its smallest rise since 1964.
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Tourism is our second biggest contributor - after North Sea oil - to gross domestic product .
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In the former case, we need make no adjustment but the figures are renamed domestic product , income and expenditure.
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Investment was sharply down and was estimated to represent only 9 percent of gross domestic product .
gross
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In the mid-1970s, public spending peaked at over 49 percent of our gross national product .
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Dini said inflation was kept to a moderate pace during the year, even as gross domestic product rose 3 percent.
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Possibly one fifth of their loans are bad debts or some 30 per cent of gross domestic product .
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Most countries in the world attempt to monitor the total value of their output, or gross national product .
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An inflation measure linked to the gross domestic product had its smallest rise since 1964.
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When do the Government expect to meet the target for overseas aid of 0.7 percent. of gross national product ?
national
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That achievement represents a larger share of a larger national product and the Conservative party can be extremely proud of it.
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So, more marginally, has the competitive prestige that goes with expanding national product .
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Affluence is measured by the per capita gross national product .
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All of the nonperishable items were national brand products .
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Gross national product fell 5.8 percent in January-February 1991 compared with the same period in 1990.
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The country had the largest gross national product of any nation.
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Leaflets on all National Savings products are available at post offices.
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Spending on health has risen from 4.7 percent of the gross national product in 1979 to 5.7.
new
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With a new product this is the market segment buying the product.
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Invention Policies help employees patent and develop new products or processes they invent.
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It does not at this stage include any specific new products .
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The three planners then turned to how Mike should market test the new product .
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Which doctors are most or least likely to use new products ?
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Online services like Napster helped generate interest in a slew of new computer products in recent months.
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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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Thus, firms entering overseas markets must bear this in mind when introducing new products or services.
other
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But Mars say it's unfair that Walls have banned other products from their freezers.
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Both in summer and winter thousands came to the mountains, returning home with yoghurt, cheese and other products .
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The cost of the failure of one product is not spread in an insurance fashion by having the other products around.
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If other absorbing products or intermediates occur there will be no isosbestic point.
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The deal will include racing strips, tracksuits and other related products .
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One deals in telecommunications equipment and the other in lighting products .
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Steaming softens and opens the pores so that the skin is more receptive to other products and ingredients.
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Enhancements will be made to Equation and other products this year, with development of an object-oriented version on the cards.
waste
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It is the biggest single concept, many others being devoted to using methane gas at waste product dumps.
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The algae consumed waste products from the reef and under the intense artificial sunlight they proliferated in stringy green mats.
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The nitric acid solution is then mixed with an organic solvent and the uranium and plutonium are separated from the waste products .
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It is excreted in the urine as a waste product of creatine. 194.
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But this alone will not purify your water of waste products that are invisible to the eye.
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Elimination Elimination is the process by which waste products are excreted from the body.
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A two-way hatch facilitates the serving of carefully calculated meals and the removal of waste products in the appropriate receptacles!
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During the summer these may include small animals known as dinoflagellates, which produce toxic waste products .
■ NOUN
consumer
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Its use is most frequent in the field of consumer products .
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S.-made consumer products .
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If you handle a consumer product for a manufacturer you deal with members of the press on an hour to hour basis.
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A new consumer product must be introduced with a suitable advertising campaign to arouse an interest in it.
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As consumer products have become more sophisticated, so too have their semi-conductors.
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The boom has been fuelled by accelerated demand for consumer products with even small grocery stores receiving up to 12 deliveries every day.
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Electra, a maker of consumer products , fell 2. 25 percent.
dairy
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Price controls on dairy products were lifted on June 11.
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She then gave the dairy product to a leper, whose affliction immediately disappeared.
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The materials cover the production and manufacture of milk and dairy products , as well as providing nutrition information.
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Vegans: Vegetarians who eat neither eggs nor dairy products may have a tough time consuming enough vitamin B-12.
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However these products tend not to be as rich in calcium as dairy products and red fish.
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MlLchig a. Milk or other dairy products .
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Vitamin B12 is found in dairy products , and a number of cereals and yeast extracts, such as Marmite.
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However, households also paid sharply more for some items they bought every few days, such as gasoline and dairy products .
development
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This matters most in fuzzy, creative processes such as product development .
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In part, our failure had to do with our traditional approach to new product development .
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There are significant differences between vendors offerings, and future product development plans.
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New product development in other industries will similarly increasingly shift to focus on older citizens.
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One of the most exciting concepts coming through Charnos' latest product development is the control top with lycra.
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His challenge was to maintain his vision during the long struggle of product development .
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Oddly, the most successful firms spent proportionately less on product development .
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The model permits comparison and discussion of techniques of approach to new product development in terms of five variables.
end
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Though he said it himself, Hans was a masterpiece of genetics - the end product of two centuries of breeding.
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Similarly, e-mail can be considered both a messaging infrastructure and a purchasable end product .
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The end product of such a course of evolution is an obligate parasite that is inextricably linked to a particular host.
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Assimilation is always the end product .
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But unlike its predecessors, Midnight Club fails to blend individual brilliance into a quality end product .
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The end product of such processes as these was the primitive nucleus of a continent, which grew as this process continued.
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But the end product would be very different - not indecisive and multiple, but single and decisive.
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All I want is the end product .
food
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Direct mail order sale of food products by food manufacturers and specialty shops has become big business.
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Cleanliness is essential when carrying a food product like sugar.
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Prepare a list of six food products that are available as store brands, generic brands, and national brands.
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As future food products become diversified, so will the means for infection.
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Read the labels on all food products for levels of fat content.
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The local grocery in Brandon, Manitoba, sports 12,000 food products and flaunts 56 brands of breakfast cereal.
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Advertising costs are supported by local food retailers and by manufacturers of food products .
line
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The volume of semiconductor business was up 8% on last year after product line pruning.
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Microsoft, meanwhile is pursuing a far different on-line strategy of weaving Internet features into its existing product lines .
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They're happy to back a complete new product line .
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To keep track of all the various product lines , companies structured according to specialized functions.
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The company will have about 15 management heads along product lines , with specialization on a regional basis depending on demand.
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This, coupled with internal conflicts at Motorola over the 680x0 program, led to a weak positioning of both product lines .
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They learn delivery schedules, work routines and product lines .
milk
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Where goat milk or milk products are used for human consumption, milk-withholding periods for different drugs should be observed.
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Yogurt is a cultured milk product prepared from either whole or skim milk.
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Avoid unpasteurised goat's milk and unpasteurised goat's milk products .
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Cholesterol is found only in animal products , such as meats-especially organ meats-whole milk products and the yolk of eggs.
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Some went into cereal or malted milk products .
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It can be reconstituted and used like any fluid milk product .
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Several new milk products are being developed with this goal in mind, and there are two notable entries in the field.
range
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So, however much you think you know about the Rockwool product range , think again.
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In the United States, Franklin has long sold its product range through retail outlets.
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Another reason for developing the alliance portfolio is the need to broaden the product range offered to customers.
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Involvement in a very wide range of chemistry, extending well outside the company's standard commercial product range.
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Each new financial futures exchange initially concentrates on local cash market instruments as a basis for its product range .
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New Fabric Backgrounds Colorama Photodisplay have extended their range of backgrounds by adding three new fabric materials to their product range.
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Briefly, this involves recasting the company into a number of operating divisions which take day-to-day decisions concerning particular product ranges .
software
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It is essential to realise at the outset that desktop publishing software is totally unlike any other software product category.
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Farmington Hills, Michigan-based Compuware develops software products for mainframe computer users.
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People were using any of a large range of software products to perform what appeared to be the same basic tasks.
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Symantec was hurt because of slow sales of its software products designed to run on Windows 95.
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WordPerfect Corporation offers a host of other software products , including spreadsheets, graphics, databases, and office automation.
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The company rolled out a series of new, easier-to-use Windows-based software products last year, most of them hits.
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The company is also adding ClearCase and Track to its CASEVision family of software products .
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Martin is now creating a new software product that will help large companies manage their files in a more effective way.
■ VERB
buy
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Women think: buy the product , look like that.
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Yet people keep buying these products , and blaming themselves when the products fail to help them lose weight.
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I refused to buy any of these products , telling the vendor why.
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Last year, consumers spent $ 2. 2 billion buying products over the Internet.
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Unfortunately, people do not feel quite the same craving to buy products made of recycled materials.
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For a number of years, artificial sweeteners were mainly used by diabetics, who bought the products in drugstores.
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Pledge five: forests I pledge not to buy any products made from tropical hardwoods.
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Consumers get to feel good about making a donation while buying a product .
develop
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Such foreign-controlled labs may help adapt or develop products and/or production processes to better conform to local conditions.
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Farmington Hills, Michigan-based Compuware develops software products for mainframe computer users.
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Suppose a company develops a product in secret, and then markets it.
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Time spent communicating with managers is one of the major bottlenecks in developing new product prototypes and packaging.
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Marconi has had to invest heavily in developing new products to keep in step with rivals such as Nortel and Alcatel.
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FemRX Inc., which is developing surgical products for women had its first stock offering last week.
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Cypress has no plans to develop future Sparc products but it will continue to handle distribution during the transition.
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Some 40 other photo companies, including Cambridge-based Polaroid, have also secured licenses to develop products for the new format.
finish
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You shouldn't pay for them as they're not finished products .
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Students will take home the finished products .
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The reviews in your excellent magazine focus on finished products , or peripherals.
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Or the fact Florida high schools are permitted to conduct spring football camps that deliver him more finished products , they speculate.
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Liberon are very positive about the future and are set to expand their range of wood finishing products .
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These formulas and the labels for the finished products must be approved.
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But manufacturing was not enough; he needed missionaries to peddle the finished product .
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A greater emphasis is likely to be placed on the finished product .
launch
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Zeneca has launched no new products since 1989.
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An entrepreneur we interviewed was given the opportunity to launch a new product for a major international company.
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Are you launching a new product ?
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It was as though he had created a virtual company for a specific time period to launch that particular product .
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Over the past 18 months we have launched a number of products offering opportunities for existing customers.
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Growing competition is prompting banks, building societies and insurers to launch new financial products almost on a daily basis.
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The immediate aim is to launch at least five such products on the market within two years.
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A decision has to be made whether or not to launch the new product .
manufacture
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The Schott Group manufactures 50,000 special glass products .
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They fueled the industrial revolution in both Great Britain and the United States but are today a standard third-world-\#manufactured product .
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Currently the companies manufacture these products under the trade names of Altuglas and Plexiglas.
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Another unsettling trend in this area is the erosion in our ability to design and manufacture products .
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The inventor may not be the best man to develop and manufacture the product .
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Hence the country with the lower p will be a net exporter of manufactured products .
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The Times is a business, but it does not manufacture a product .
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Most of its business is solving problems rather than manufacturing tangible products .
market
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Time to market for new products was typically 204 weeks; at Enfield, they wanted to cut that by one year.
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CyberMedia has done an excellent job marketing this product , using an extensive direct-mail campaign.
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It markets its products through all of them, as well as through GTE-California and most other local companies.
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The court may have to balance the risk against the benefits in deciding whether the decision to market the product was justified.
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Jobs's genius had always been for marketing the products made by Wozniak and the others.
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The only way they can market their products is to produce literature detailed enough to convince the prospective buyer.
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Companies should be allowed to use reasonable bandwidth to market their products .
offer
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Surely manufacturers who offer these products and recommend them of use as a priming support for oils have done their research properly?
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It will continue to offer a lineup of products that, well, cover the gamut of all users.
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However, these scams are not connected to the mainstream offshore financial services community, which continues to offer good products .
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Like Blue Bell, many companies offer free or discounted products to their employees.
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Support may also be offered by firms whose products may in some ways be harmful to children.
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It also allows employees to offer testimonials on which products and services are good, Phillips said.
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Since then, residents have been hard-pressed to find nearby stores that offer quality products at reasonable prices.
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The service also offers access to the products and services of important Journal advertisers.
produce
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We should reduce the amount of hazardous waste that is produced when making products - often useful products - for the market.
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Those who invented new products would produce those products during the initial, high-profitability, high-wage, Stages of their life cycle.
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During the summer these may include small animals known as dinoflagellates, which produce toxic waste products .
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Others manage research and development activities that produce new products and processes or improve existing ones.
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Yet the custom side is more challenging and helps us to design and produce new and better products .
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Toshiba's commitment to our society has produced two very different products , both designed to look after you.
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Consider a world with a number of sectors, some of which produce differentiated products .
sell
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What sort of shops will sell the product ?
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Another way to make money online is by selling a unique product .
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Saouma called for fair trade terms to allow developing countries to sell their agricultural products to the industrialized countries.
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The company does not sell its products outside its own stores and buys ginseng from wholesalers, Miller said.
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Comart expects to sell products worth £11 million this year, double the figure for 1981-82.
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By selling its products and services, the workshop's expected to earn £300,000 this year.
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An international company is likely to rely on agents to sell its products to the country's markets.
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A spokesman for the bank said the computers will ensure that clients are not sold unsuitable products .
use
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Most hair care worries can be sorted out by changing your basic routine or using products to suit your hair type.
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Both compounds once were widely used in household products such as glass cleaners, paints and paint thinners.
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Which doctors are most or least likely to use new products ?
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The same goes for any other overhaul of a widely used product .
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To use this product it must be created using option 5.1.1 - Create Product.
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The results obtained using this product are, from all reports, excellent.
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To use an existing product , use option 5.4.4 - View Product Titles, to view the names of all existing products.
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People are very accepting of using fitness products .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
animal products/fats/protein etc
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A recently proposed federal ban on feeding animal protein to animals is encouraging, writes Rhodes, but has too many loopholes.
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Cholesterol is found only in animal products, such as meats-especially organ meats-whole milk products and the yolk of eggs.
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In general, the consumption of animal products has decreased while the consumption of plant products increased during recent years.
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It can only obtain it by eating animal proteins.
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Licensed hawkers were circulating, braying the merits of spiced sausages containing only real animal protein - so they claimed.
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The method was designed to estimate the intakes of total and saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein.
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The sanctions could take the form of a ban on virtually all trade in wild animal products with the two countries.
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What animal products are used in other wines, and why are producers not obliged to list the ingredients?
competing products/brands/companies etc
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A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making.
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Being a suspicious soul I also ran a competing companies test disk on the system.
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Invariably, the own-brand range is offered at lower prices than the competing brands.
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Price is now the main factor differentiating competing brands.
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They do not adjust their shopping list to take advantage of price fluctuations among competing products.
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This analysis will use recently developed techniques for measuring the competitiveness of a product amongst a group of similar competing products.
dairy products/produce
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Dunlop parish had been long-famed for its dairy produce.
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However these products tend not to be as rich in calcium as dairy products and red fish.
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However, households also paid sharply more for some items they bought every few days, such as gasoline and dairy products.
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In general, nondairy products such as whipped toppings coffee creamers, and margarine are replacing the corresponding dairy products.
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No oil, dairy products or sweeteners are added so the principle of slow rise will prevail.
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She pruned her diet drastically, cutting down dairy produce and other foods high in cholesterol.
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The most harmful type are saturated animal fats, found in meat and dairy products.
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Vegans: Vegetarians who eat neither eggs nor dairy products may have a tough time consuming enough vitamin B-12.
entry level product/model/computer etc
performance-enhancing drug/product/supplement etc
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Seven of the 12 winners tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
styling products/mousse/spray etc
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By Bryan at Rare Moods Add body and volume to fine hair with styling products and back-combing.
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Choose styling products formulated to give a natural-looking hold for casual styling.
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Look out for two great new styling products from Sebastian, the range favoured by professionals nationwide.
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To create a textured separated look with movement, use about a rounded tablespoon of styling mousse, as shown. 3.
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To create great styles from one cut, you need versatile styling products.
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Whichever curling method you choose, styling products are invaluable for setting hair beautifully.
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You can do this by using different after shaves and mouthwashes, and putting different styling products in your hair.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a new range of skin-care products
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I'm allergic to dairy products.
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None of our products are tested on animals.
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The bill will restrict the advertising of tobacco products.
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The company manufactures and delivers paper and paper products.
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The new product took more than three years to develop before being put on the market.
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There is less demand now for products like coal and steel.
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There was a ban on meat pies, gelatine, and other British beef products.
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We spend a lot of money on product development.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But his aides stress that the final product , while reflecting the input of dozens of others, is predominately Clinton.
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Graphically, the intersection of the supply curve and the demand curve for the product will indicate the equilibrium point.
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If not detected and corrected this error would have priced the said products out of the market.
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On this basis, by about 1996, sales of electronic information products will be generating more revenue than sales of books.
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Several additional features can now be added like colour or photographs and the product starts to take on a more professional look.
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That would be another major breakthrough, offering a huge distribution channel for the product .
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They enlighten us on the mystery, we are grateful to them, we trust them and then we buy their product .