noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a poll rating (= showing how popular someone is )
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His poll ratings keep slipping.
credit rating
sb's popularity rating (= how popular someone is according to a poll )
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His popularity rating dropped quite dramatically after the events of last year.
sb’s credit rating (= how likely a bank etc thinks someone is to pay their debts )
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If you have a poor credit rating, you will have a hard time getting a mortgage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
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Data from the Groeger and Chapman study is presented as average ratings from 48 subjects, 24 male and 24 female.
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Overall, the University's average rating has improved from 2.20 to 3.25.
current
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This effectively gives a 6-0-6 volt transformer having a current rating of 250 milliamps.
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Mains transformer T1 must have a generous current rating .
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However, the current rating is the sum of the individual current ratings, or 500 milliamps in this case.
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Replace any flexes that have damaged insulation with new flex of the correct type and current rating for the appliance concerned.
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The current rating of the combined secondaries is the same as when they are used separately, 250 milliamps in this example.
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This exceeds the transformer current rating .
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Any alternative must be rated at least 40V working and have minimum ripple current rating of 5A.
excellent
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State officials have always given the Mullens excellent ratings as foster parents.
good
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But a good rating from the independent assessors can make all the difference.
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Which is, of course, why funds with good ratings would buy them.
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A Weakest Link special featuring EastEnders stars turned in the quiz show's best ever ratings .
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However, Tejano Country began pulling in much better ratings than expected, Mr Porter said.
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Headquarters at that time was recruiting big time and he had very good ratings .
high
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Penzance must have a high rating in the doggy charts.
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Republicans have been careful not to dismiss the proposals of a re-elected president enjoying high public approval ratings .
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The notes are not backed by any collateral; rather, they rely on the high credit rating of the issuing corporation.
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The highest temperature rating is in your brain.
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Those who found the election campaign interesting gave personal conversations high ratings for all purposes.
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He refused to lower his ethical standards for higher ratings .
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Gaining one of the highest ratings in the area.
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If right-wing radio talk show hosts get high ratings , they will be the ones on the air.
low
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This is illegal as they have a lower speed rating than the vehicle requires.
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Mr Major and his chancellor, Norman Lamont, still have the lowest poll ratings since the second world war.
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Problems caused by using fuel with a too low octane rating .
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Still, it kept civilians and lower ratings in their place to affect a certain degree of criticism.
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Few voters gave her low ratings for being tough or decisive, and they were an unpredictable few.
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There is a much simpler way to deal with low ratings .
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However, they were preoccupied with their own internal squabbles and Michael Foot was scoring low personal ratings in the opinion polls.
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They are an unsecured loan, generally to a borrower with a low credit rating .
mean
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To test this possibility the data were split according to the mean ratings for the amount of moving objects in the film.
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Data were then presented as rank-ordered products of the mean ratings .
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Judgment Results: The overall mean speed rating was 4.26 and mean normality rating was 6.38.
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Because subjects differ between the experiments the correlations calculated here are simply correlations over the 60 films of the mean ratings .
overall
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Returns automatically become more volatile. Overall market ratings do not allow for one-off payments.
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Each area is scored out of 10 and the company is thus given an overall rating out of 200.
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Judgment Results: The overall mean speed rating was 4.26 and mean normality rating was 6.38.
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Is this pattern illustrated for overall health rating ?
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Scrutiny of Figure 6.2 indicates that this pattern is replicated for overall health rating .
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As with aspects of physical and mental health the population classification derived from overall health ratings is dependent upon the question asked.
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How well does older people's overall rating of their health status compare with the prevalence of acute and chronic health problems?
poor
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At worst, a poor rating can put a company out of business.
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Both had poor ratings in a crowded marketplace, with almost two dozen syndicated talk shows scrapping for viewers every day.
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Loaded with debt and poor credit ratings , the future of their juicy cash flows is in doubt.
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You Bet Your Life, which has been screened on Channel 4, was dropped due to poor ratings .
top
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The department's work has been given top ratings in both UGC/UFC research reviews.
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Pyramid and Sequent score well, along with Siemens Nixdorf, in the top end performance ratings for mainframe Unix.
■ NOUN
agency
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The ratings agency cited the increased business risk profile of the company, which has reduced profitability.
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Yet, ratings agencies count the obligation as equity, providing an advantage over traditional debt.
approval
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The poll also gave a popular approval rating of 39 percent for the President, the lowest ever recorded by Bush.
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Republicans have been careful not to dismiss the proposals of a re-elected president enjoying high public approval ratings .
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His approval ratings may even go down.
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He leaves office with near-record-high approval ratings despite widespread abhorrence at his personal behavior, pollsters say.
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He leaves office with record approval ratings .
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Clinton ventured to Capitol Hill Tuesday night enjoying the highest public approval ratings of his presidency.
credit
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Stronger societies were taking over smaller and weaker ones, which resulted in a downgrading of the credit rating of the predator.
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Its credit ratings are lower than those of its rivals as well.
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The principles of credit rating are immutable, they insist; their credit opinions are never swayed by the judgments of others.
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Ignore companies that claim to be able to repair your credit ratings .
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Lists of customers or sub-contractors and associated information; for example, what services they perform, what their credit rating is.
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The percentage loaned is again a function of the credit rating of the borrower and the quality of the accounts receivable.
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The notes are not backed by any collateral; rather, they rely on the high credit rating of the issuing corporation.
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A third major source of short-term financing, commercial paper, is available to large firms with high-quality credit ratings .
performance
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Kubota claims performance ratings of between 200,000 and 1.2m shaded triangles per second and 350,000 to 2m three-dimensional vectors per second.
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And it limited bumping to one career path and based it primarily on performance ratings , not seniority.
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Pyramid and Sequent score well, along with Siemens Nixdorf, in the top end performance ratings for mainframe Unix.
poll
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Mr Major and his chancellor, Norman Lamont, still have the lowest poll ratings since the second world war.
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It is uncertain how the return of the public Gingrich will affect his poll ratings or those of his party.
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He started talking about individuals' opinion poll ratings .
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And those high poll ratings , they argued, translate into more power in negotiations with Congress.
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They tackled their political, tactical and strategic problems swiftly and directly; and, incidentally, their poll ratings rose strongly.
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Less than two years ago, at the end of the Gulf War, he had the highest poll rating of any President.
popularity
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The president's popularity ratings are at a record low.
power
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Their power ratings , in the 16-18 range prior to Sunday, may drop below 20.
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In our Bench Tests, the machine performed adequately with a power rating of 3,725.
risk
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The risk rating is a statistical measure of the probability of failure for companies with negative Z-Score.
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The risk ratings come from Morningstar.
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The risk ratings of recent failures are also provided in Table 1.
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Accident estimates and risk ratings are strongly related for individual subjects.
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The data for risk ratings and accident estimates were considered separately and are plotted in Figures 4.1 and 4.2 respectively.
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One subject used a wide range of accident estimates but gave a risk rating of one at all 40 junctions.
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The actual distribution of responses across the 20 possible risk ratings and 21 possible accident estimates is shown in Figure 3.2.
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Above this point there is a dramatic increase in the probability of recall with increasing risk ratings .
system
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This is supposed to include details of how a bank's internal ratings system is working.
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We have decided to implement an MPAAlike ratings system for the television programs on Fox.
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Brewers are now introducing the Alcohol by Volume rating system .
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After all, the networks have resisted calls for a ratings system for more than 25 years.
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Officials hope to have the ratings system in place by January 1997.
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Officially, they maintained they are moving on a ratings system voluntarily.
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The entertainment industry has vehemently objected to the V-chip and ratings system as tantamount to government censorship.
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The first two dots to connect are the V-chip legislation and the ratings system .
■ VERB
cut
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Analysts cut their ratings on the bellwether technology stock: Morgan Stanley.
give
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To explore this possibility subjects gave risk ratings for the stimuli after completing the main experiment.
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State officials have always given the Mullens excellent ratings as foster parents.
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As it's a beta version, it's tricky to give ClarisWorks a star rating .
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Lowbrow tabloid readers gave PEBs high ratings for all three purposes.
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Each area is scored out of 10 and the company is thus given an overall rating out of 200.
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One subject used a wide range of accident estimates but gave a risk rating of one at all 40 junctions.
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The department's work has been given top ratings in both UGC/UFC research reviews.
increase
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When lead is added to petrol it improves a car's performance by increasing the octane rating .
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Consultants are hired by stations to find ways to increase the ratings of news shows, and to do so quickly.
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Above this point there is a dramatic increase in the probability of recall with increasing risk ratings .
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Extra Training: Put any of your players through extra training to hopefully increase their skill rating .
lower
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Sons, lowered their ratings on the stock because of slower-than-expected growth at new stores.
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Southeastern hospitals generally have higher credit ratings than those in other regions, because they have newer facilities and lower costs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Almodovar's film was given an X rating in the U.S.
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NBC's new comedy had the highest television rating this season.
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The President's approval rating rose to 78%.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And those high poll ratings, they argued, translate into more power in negotiations with Congress.
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In the effort to bolster ratings at all costs, journalistic standards have been lowered.
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Readers will doubtless already be well aware that the voltage ratings quoted for electrolytic capacitors are really quite important.
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Similar factors explain newspaper ratings also.
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Staying above the fray, he has gone about his duties and watched his approval ratings rise.
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The five categories of fires, plus their efficiency ratings, are described below.
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The other likely source for the differences in ratings is that subjects interpreted the normality task differently in the two situations.
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With ratings down, however, the show last fall refocused on investigative reporting and celebrity interviews and stopped paying for stories.