noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
access provider
airtime provider
an Internet service provider (= a company that allows you to connect to the Internet )
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Your Internet service provider should be able to solve the problem.
application service provider
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Quarterly losses at Freeserve, Britain's biggest internet service provider , doubled to nearly $ 27m.
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The national ISPs and bigger on-line service providers made this service available to their customers only in 1995.
commercial
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Crompton offers several different case studies where charges of unfair competition are made by the commercial sector provider against the government agency.
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Few workshop participants anticipated the fantastic growth of commercial users and providers .
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In Bristol, the scheme was set up before other commercial providers were established.
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You can enter it through one of the major on-line services, or a smaller commercial provider .
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The dismantling of the personal social services would also open the way for commercial providers .
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And the commercial providers are not giving up, either.
content
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The site www.school-science.co.uk is an approved content provider for the National Grid for Learning and was launched last January.
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Doherty said deals with content providers may be announced shortly but declined to elaborate.
financial
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It is the incentives under which financial users and providers operate that should take the rap and which require attention.
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However, the problem facing financial services providers is that profitability depends on persuading more investors to go online.
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Their role as financial information providers is permeating all aspects of business.
independent
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As London's largest independent provider of community care we have seen these changes unfold at first hand.
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Or try to. Independent Internet service providers have faced problems, too.
internet
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They have also signed a deal with Freeserve, the internet service provider , offering direct access for students.
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Merit will have the central role in technical coordination for Internet service providers who need to interchange traffic.
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The dotcom revolution was driven by the psychology and assumptions of internet service providers rather than knowledge of customer shopping patterns.
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You might also find an Internet provider is a better value.
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A special Internet Setup Assistant helps users find an Internet access provider .
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They are rapidly entering the Internet service provider marketplace.
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Some Internet providers offer Netscape Navigator, which has its own e-mail program built in.
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But eventually the Internet service providers will have to reliably deliver the services they promise.
large
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This will usually entail the larger provider selling the smaller one access to its backbone.
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With the acquisition, Verio Northern California becomes the third largest provider for businesses in the region.
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As London's largest independent provider of community care we have seen these changes unfold at first hand.
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Citibank is the largest provider of securities services in the world.
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By far the largest provider of maternity welfare in the south was the Plaistow Maternity Hospital.
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Some of the larger service providers tend to restrict the activities of users on the Internet from their networks.
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Healthscape, which is signing contracts with large health-insurance providers , plans to overcome those problems.
local
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To develop plans successfully agencies will need to work closely with local providers and community representatives.
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The growth of some local access providers has been astounding.
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Many local providers now have thousands of subscribers, and some are growing at more than 1000 new accounts per month.
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And, because local providers serve only a specific area, they may offer better, faster connections for customers.
main
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It has become the main provider of affordable home care for the elderly.
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Currently highways authorities and main services providers are allowed to cause chaos by digging up roads whenever and wherever they wish.
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Sir George Young Housing associations are now the main providers of new subsidised housing.
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As well as the lawyers to the investor, lawyers will have been appointed by the buy-out team and by the main debt providers .
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After all, Michael was the main provider .
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The main providers of such funds are overseas banks, multinational corporations and institutional investors.
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But overwhelmingly the state is still the main provider of welfare: Britain has a welfare state.
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Resolving the strategic aims of the purchaser and its main provider where these conflict may require difficult negotiations.
major
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This was a major provider of not only walking holidays but also package holidays and holiday camps.
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Still, the proposal has roiled the stocks of major providers of the service.
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One session will look at the role of cities as major providers of huge new leisure facilities and sporting venues.
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But Cooper argues that if major Internet providers go along with the plan, it will undermine the legitimacy of the extremists.
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They also powerfully helped to shape the subsequent roles and responsibilities of the major providers during the period in the District.
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General Household Survey data indicate that the major provider of care for the elderly in Britain is the family.
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Carpet manufacture and related activities had been the major provider of employment in the area up until the late 1960s.
national
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As a result, local and national Internet service providers sprang up to sell direct dial-up connections to the Internet.
other
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There should also be rules to meet the needs of other service providers .
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In that way, people can see how effective the organisation is against other providers or against a regional or national average.
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Particular emphasis was placed on the links with other service providers in the area.
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Banks, accountants, advertising agencies and many other providers of professional services are the camp followers of the multinational army.
private
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Mr. Thurnham Does my hon. Friend agree that voluntary groups and private providers can efficiently deliver services for the disabled?
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In health care, government can pool risks and use its muscle to keep down costs better than any private provider .
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This will ensure that there will be no bias between public and private sector providers .
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Other measures include a special needs capital grant to be aimed at projects provided by voluntary organisations and private sector care providers .
regional
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Today, all regional providers carry commercial traffic.
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With the shift toward commercial traffic plus diminishing federal support, most regional providers have to evolve to fill new roles.
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JvNCNet, is a representative example of a regional Internet service provider in the Northeast.
small
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For a while, small providers had the Internet-access game largely to themselves.
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These are the dominant players in the Internet access hierarchy and provide other smaller service providers with backbone connectivity.
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What small providers lack in some areas, they often more than make up for in personal service and added features.
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But critics say that small providers are often overcome by their own success.
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You can enter it through one of the major on-line services, or a smaller commercial provider .
■ NOUN
access
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The growth of some local access providers has been astounding.
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Already, Internet access providers and universities have moved to limit certain material.
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Verio was recognized for its progression from an Internet-\#access provider to an e-commerce and Web hosting leader.
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Internet access providers generally charge $ 20 a month but offer an unlimited number of hours per month.
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These backbone access providers link users and ecommerce application providers.
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A special Internet Setup Assistant helps users find an Internet access provider .
cable
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Viacom and other cable providers raise rates periodically throughout the year.
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However, this category competes with the telco / cable providers for the same pool of customers.
care
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In addition to their other responsibilities local authorities may still continue to be direct care providers if they so wish.
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The purchaser may contract with the primary care provider unit instead of primary care teams.
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A lot of family care providers have all the toys back on the shelves half way through the day.
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A new health care purchasing authority will contract for primary services with individual practices or primary care provider units.
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The most important thing to note is whether the family; care provider talks to children in a loving way.
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No attempt had been made to vet his suitability as a home care provider , he said.
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A compromise bill will likely trim the growth in payments to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers .
information
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Internet users fall into two camps, the information providers and the information gatherers.
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The product is aimed at universities and information providers that use Macintosh systems.
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We are all buck naked before the information providers of this world.
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The role of the media as information providers is often overlooked by those who emphasize their overtly political functions.
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Their role as financial information providers is permeating all aspects of business.
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Phonelink is also developing Tel-me further to handle data from a whole range of information providers .
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To do this, the group will need to ally itself strategically to these information providers .
network
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Look for multiple, direct connections to other network providers .
service
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There should also be rules to meet the needs of other service providers .
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Likewise, if new communities choose other, less-costly service providers , will Pima County then reduce overhead and taxes proportionately?
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They have also signed a deal with Freeserve, the internet service provider , offering direct access for students.
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What more would local leaders and social service providers like to see done to reduce the ominous numbers?
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And then it grew, and traders and service providers thought it worthwhile to settle here and go into business.
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You may instead be using software from an Internet service provider or from the company that bundled software with your computer.
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Hyperlink reference not valid., an experimental Internet service provider .
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All service providers require you to buy the local loop segment from your facility to their closest PoP.
training
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Many training providers pull out because it is not worth it.
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TECs do not themselves provide programmes; they contract out to training providers .
unit
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Clinics should be managed within each provider unit to take this into account.
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When I started out, nobody had heard of health economics; now every provider unit in the health service wants one.
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The purchaser may contract with the primary care provider unit instead of primary care teams.
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This could strengthen the hand of managers in the provider units .
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The inspection section must work at arm's length from the provider units , and so on.
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A new health care purchasing authority will contract for primary services with individual practices or primary care provider units .
■ VERB
become
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It has become the main provider of affordable home care for the elderly.
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The joint venture, Infostrada, aims at becoming a voice transmission provider in 1998.
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An innovation in organisation sectorisation resulted in the regions losing their business roles and becoming purely the providers of services and facilities.
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With the acquisition, Verio Northern California becomes the third largest provider for businesses in the region.
lead
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Netcom On-Line Communications, the leading provider of Internet access to consumers, was hit especially hard.
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Verio is the world's largest operator of Web sites for businesses and a leading provider of comprehensive Internet services.
manage
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Clinics should be managed within each provider unit to take this into account.
offer
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They have also signed a deal with Freeserve, the internet service provider , offering direct access for students.
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This often happens when independent organizations seek to make sense of different providers offering the same service.
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Some Internet providers offer Netscape Navigator, which has its own e-mail program built in.
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Many card providers offer attractive balance transfer deals.
train
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When the Job Training Partnership Act passed in 1982, for instance, it mandated performance-based contracts with training providers .
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If Brazelton were in charge, training child-care providers would be a top priority.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a leading provider of personal financial services
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day-care providers
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schools, colleges and other education providers
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The company is now one of the regions main Internet service providers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But critics say that small providers are often overcome by their own success.
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Crompton offers several different case studies where charges of unfair competition are made by the commercial sector provider against the government agency.
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Currently highways authorities and main services providers are allowed to cause chaos by digging up roads whenever and wherever they wish.
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It helped her not to dwell on negatives and improved her role as a provider .
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Negotiations between particular TECs and providers must be a matter for those TECs and providers.
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This often happens when independent organizations seek to make sense of different providers offering the same service.
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What more would local leaders and social service providers like to see done to reduce the ominous numbers?