I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at-risk register (= an official list of people in this situation )
cash register
electoral register
parish register
register office
register to vote (= put your name on a list of voters )
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We must encourage people to register to vote.
registered mail (= letters insured against loss or damage )
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You have to sign for registered mail.
registered office
registered post
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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Compliance unit in London office maintains a central register of all corporate finance engagement letters obtained by the firm.
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A central register of information blacklisted certain people, particularly those who passed bad cheques and placed fraudulent overseas orders.
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Some landowners may have the results of past exploration programmes but there is no central register for this information.
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The two birth registry controls were chosen by staff employed at the central register in Southport.
electoral
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The commission estimates the population on the basis of the electoral register - but is working with the artificially low 1991 registers.
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Go to the reference library and look up the electoral register for the last ten years or so.
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The other method for collecting facts about potential purchasers is through published lists - like the telephone directory or the electoral register .
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Is this one of the reasons why 1 million people are missing off the electoral register ?
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This register is not identical to the electoral register and includes foreigners resident in this country and others not entitled to vote.
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Mr Alton said that the poll tax meant many people had dodged electoral registers in a bid to avoid payment.
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The poll tax registers , unlike the electoral registers, are updated monthly.
high
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We have divided the cellos in order to obtain intensity of tone from their high register .
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Its high register gives brilliance and point when doubling at the octave phrases allotted to other wind instruments or to the violins.
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This method of obscuring chords only in higher registers is quite usual, as it gives a good equilibrium to the harmony.
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The high registers contain parameters passed from above the current procedure.
low
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In the Allegretto the music begins in the sombre low register and gradually rises through the octaves.
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His tone is ample and distinctive, especially in the jowly lower register of the instrument.
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The oscilloscope graph of both voices was flattened in the lower register: tension was restricting the movement of their vocal chords.
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The circlet is enriched by enamel plaques of Byzantine manufacture, alternating on the lower register with jewels en cabochon.
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The commission estimates the population on the basis of the electoral register - but is working with the artificially low 1991 registers.
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I had gripped the gnome's face when I heard the weaving, low registers of Leon's clarinet.
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Another factor is that the characteristics of intervals are greatly increased in the low registers and decreased in the upper.
national
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The idea would be to compile over a short period a national register of wealth holdings.
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Firstly, we need a national register of hip replacements and revisions to provide an accurate measure of revision rate.
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The information is then entered on to a National Security register at the firm's headquarters in Banbury.
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Registrar-General, keeper of the national register of births, deaths, and marriages.
public
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Local authorities will be required to hold public registers of information.
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The agencies will have to have available for public scrutiny a register giving details of consents granted and results of effluent samples.
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The information could then be put on a public register .
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Proposals include a public register of documents and a tight list of exemptions.
upper
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There is a trumpet-like incisiveness in the middle and upper registers and a positively ringing sound at the top.
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The oboe tends to lose power and body in its upper register , but with the clarinet the opposite is the case.
■ NOUN
birth
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One control was selected from both the delivery register and birth register.
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Analyses were also performed with birth register and delivery register controls separately.
cash
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I ask only one favour: please bring me a pound's worth of silver from the Swan's cash register .
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By the time I got my chance at the cash register , my white friends had been promoted to management.
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The authorities reacted by ruling that tamper-proof electronic cash registers must be used.
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Exasperated customers were elbowing through the aisles in search of the cash registers .
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So methods have been developed to dissuade you from wandering off to somebody else's cash register .
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If anything, he said, what they heard was that cash register .
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National chromed cash register , £220.
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So you pick out one and follow him back to the cash register .
hotel
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Each guest must be the subject of a separate entry in the hotel register .
marriage
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Yet both were the first in either family to sign the marriage register with more than a cross.
parish
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This also explains why there is no record of the burials in the parish register .
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The plaintiff was unlawfully charged for making extracts from a parish register , and was held entitled to recover back the payments.
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The surplus recorded in the parish register must have been lost through migration to other places.
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Wherever possible, they should be used in conjunction with parish registers and other sources.
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Indeed, in the author's own village the parish register was being kept in Latin as late as 1657.
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Such measures of absences from parish registers are the crudest of indicators, but other evidence points in the same direction.
■ VERB
keep
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The Law Society keeps a register for those seeking articles, but many applicants fail to be placed in this way.
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What advice would he give local authorities which might want to keep not a register but a list?
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It is absolutely different from keeping a register of every adult in the community.
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First, it became the rule that the kazaskers should keep a separate register specifically for the purpose of enrolling.
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Microprocessors keep multiple banks of registers on the chip to avoid register saving and restoring.
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This will go to be tissue typed and the results will be kept on the confidential register .
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Welcome and maintain personal contact with all Qualified Teachers. Keep register of attendance.
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The Senate keeps a register of vacant places in chambers, both in London and in the provinces.
maintain
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Compliance unit in London office maintains a central register of all corporate finance engagement letters obtained by the firm.
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One reason for this is the need to maintain an up-to-date register of those liable to pay.
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To maintain the child protection register , and to chair review meetings for registered children. 3.
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The Secretary of State must maintain a register of such orders which is open to inspection.
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Unlike the membership register a company is not compelled to maintain a register of debentureholders.
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Many larger authorities maintain a separate register of interests which is available for public inspection.
sign
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Yet both were the first in either family to sign the marriage register with more than a cross.
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No one had signed the register for eight days.
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I did not feel completely safe - for I had signed the register with my new name.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
high style/register
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All three, when they achieve greatness, have also an undeniable high style which separates them from the pedestrian mobs.
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Its high register gives brilliance and point when doubling at the octave phrases allotted to other wind instruments or to the violins.
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Like a high , high register.
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Solarium in the back, pillars and driveway fountain and the high style in the front.
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The high registers contain parameters passed from above the current procedure.
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This high style comes from Panache Fresh and simply stunning.
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This method of obscuring chords only in higher registers is quite usual, as it gives a good equilibrium to the harmony.
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We have divided the cellos in order to obtain intensity of tone from their high register.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a register of qualified translators
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a check register
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a civil register of births, deaths, and marriages
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Business letters should be written in a formal register .
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Hyatt signed the hotel guest register .
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Keep plants away from the hot air registers.
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Make sure your name is on the electoral register in good time.
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Teachers were reminded that school attendance registers were actually legal documents.
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The railroad station is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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To find out about her family history, she looked through the register of births, marriages, and deaths.
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Why are there 1 million people missing from the electoral register ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Despite this the government needs to give some thought to the practices of doctors not on the medical register .
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He claimed to be entitled to rectification of the register both as against the Hammonds and as against the building society.
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Is this one of the reasons why 1 million people are missing off the electoral register ?
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Its high register gives brilliance and point when doubling at the octave phrases allotted to other wind instruments or to the violins.
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Miller said stores typically are offered free register tape by private vendors who sell advertising space on the back of the tape.
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The result is a range of different genres of literary criticism and literary theory, to some extent distinguished by register .
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What is the difference between a register and a list in relation to data protection?
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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If both husband and wife are registered as blind, they can each claim the allowance.
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Numbers registered as out of work rose from just over a million in 1979 to over 3 million in 1983.
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Poisoning incidents have been registered as far back as 1842.
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In January 4,365 people were registered as unemployed in Darlington.
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This applies particularly to students on long-term medication and those registered as disabled persons.
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Visual acuity is often normal even when the field of vision is so poor that the child is registered as blind.
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There were between a quarter and a half a million people registered as out of work.
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In the mid-1980s this was revamped into the LDA-500 Boxer and registered as G-UTIL.
barely
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He had barely registered this fact when he felt a tap on his shoulder.
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Fonda barely registers in an underwritten role.
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There was a faint sputtering noise behind, but he barely registered the sound or noticed the flicker.
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Until his strong third-place showing in the Iowa caucuses, Alexander barely registered in the polls.
■ NOUN
birth
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But even when both parents register a birth , they may not stay together long.
death
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We shall be looking at the process of registering a death in chapter 11.
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I got in the car and the three of us went to register the death .
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The doctor may provide a leaflet explaining how to register the death and should be able to advise where to do so.
domain
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But what if Yahoo! felt the need to register itself under both domains ?
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The company charges $ 100 to register new domains and $ 50 a year for subsequent renewals.
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The service provider will register the domain name for the customer and act as the customer mail forwarder.
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Verio's new self-serve domain name registration services provide customers with an easy-to-use and faster way to register and manage domain names.
protest
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In early June, a number of citizens courageously defied religious zealots to register their protest while calling for conciliation and peace.
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Having registered his protest , would Ray be content to sit down?
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Nine Republicans either registered a protest by voting for no one specifically, or voted for some one else.
■ VERB
fail
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He and Richard must have heard about these things but in general they had failed to register .
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One can assemble the various tests that fail to register differences between the sexes in humans.
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As to negligence it was true that Moorgate Mercantile had been careless in failing to register their hire purchase agreement.
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Receiving offices had failed to register loans on the computer.
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But by failing to register in time you will have lost the chance of being given preference in allocation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Caitlin watched his face, which registered a mixture of alarm and astonishment.
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Call or write to the consumer affairs board to register your complaint.
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Dyson is the boat's registered owner.
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It was only when I mentioned the money that she registered a flicker of interest.
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More than 4.3 million people registered for shares.
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Owners had until the end of 1990 to register their weapons.
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Rare roast beef should register 115 degrees in the center when tested.
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She told me her name, but it just didn't register at the time.
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The biggest quake registered 5.2 on the Richter scale.
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The faces of the jury registered no emotion.
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The jelly is ready for bottling when the thermometer registers 165 degrees.
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The new students were told that they must register with the University before they could claim their grants.
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They claimed that the new rules would discourage people from registering as unemployed.
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Wind speeds registering between 70 and 100 mph have been recorded.
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You had to register a baby's birth within a month.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All endoscopically proved ulcer relapses were then registered.
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Hundreds of thousands have registered in the wake of the march, he said, including 30, 000 in Atlanta alone.
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Oh, I'd registered when I was eighteen, like everyone else.
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Seems back in the 1970s a young Egan once registered briefly as a Commie.
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This will change the voltage at any porthole whose current line is affected, and the appropriate voltmeter will register the fact.
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We were left with a grab bag of effects, only a modicum of which registered.
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When does an agreement need to be registered?