I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus service (= a service that provides regular buses )
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It's a small village but there is a good bus service.
a church service (= a religious ceremony in a church )
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There’s a church service at 10:30 every Sunday morning.
a coach service
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Our express coach service goes to the South of France and Costa Brava.
a commuter service
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More money is needed to improve commuter services in the region.
a comprehensive service
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Our professional staff provide a comprehensive service.
a delivery service
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We try to maintain a high standard of delivery service to our customers.
a prayer service (= church service at which people pray )
a rail service
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People want a safe, reliable rail service.
a service charge (= for service in a hotel, restaurant etc )
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The restaurant’s prices include a 10% service charge.
a service economy (= one that is based mainly on selling services such as insurance or tourism )
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Britain has shifted from a manufacturing to a service economy.
a service industry (= businesses that provide a service, such as banking and tourism )
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Most of the new jobs are in service industries.
a taxi service
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We operate a taxi service to and from the airport.
active service
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Powell was declared unfit for active service.
ambulance service
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the ambulance service
an advice centre/service/desk/bureau
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They offer a 24-hour advice service to customers.
an efficient service
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We aim to provide our clients with an efficient and friendly service.
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
basic services
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They lack basic services such as water and electricity.
care services/facilities
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How much money is spent on health care services?
catering business/service etc
civil service
community service
community services (= providing schools, health facilities, roads etc )
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Some tax goes towards paying for your community services.
customer service/care (= serving and looking after customers )
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Our aim is always to raise the level of customer service.
customer services
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You should call customer services and complain.
day care centre/services/facilities
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subsidized day care facilities
denial of service attack
dinner service
Diplomatic Service
dispense with sb’s services (= no longer employ someone )
do military service
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More and more men are refusing to do military service .
domestic service formal (= the work of a servant in a large house )
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She went into domestic service at the age of 15.
domestic service
emergency services
enlist sb’s help/services etc
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He has enlisted the help of a sports psychologist for the team.
essential services (= organizations such as the police or the fire or health service )
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The law prohibits workers in essential services from striking.
faithful service
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years of faithful service to the company
Financial Services Authority, the
fire service
for services rendered (= for something you have done )
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a bill of $3200 for services rendered
funeral service
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the minister who conducted the funeral service
goods and services
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The company provides a range of specialized goods and services.
health service
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reforms to the health service
inferior service
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He wrote a letter to complain about inferior service at the hotel.
intelligence agencies/services etc
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In Britain there are three main intelligence organizations.
Internal Revenue Service
jury service (= when you have to spend time on a jury )
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He has been called for jury service in July.
jury service
library services
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Public library services are threatened by budget cuts.
lifeboat crew/station/service
lip service
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organizations that pay lip service to career development
loyal service
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her many years of loyal service to the company
memorial service/ceremony
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A memorial service will be held at 7 pm on Saturday.
military service
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More and more men are refusing to do military service .
military/service personnel
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There have been attacks upon US military personnel.
National Health Service, the
national service
offer...services
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A number of groups offer their services free of charge.
outreach program/service/center etc
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outreach centers for drug addicts
perform a service
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Our troops are performing a remarkable service and a terribly important mission.
Police Service of Northern Ireland, the
postal service
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the U.S. postal service
provides...service
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The hotel provides a shoe-cleaning service for guests.
public service
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efforts to improve quality in public services
rental contract/scheme/service etc
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Could you sign the rental agreement?
room service
scheduled flight/service (= a plane service that flies at the same time every day or every week )
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Prices include scheduled flights from Heathrow.
secret service
security service
service a debt (= pay the interest on a debt, but not pay it back )
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By then, she was borrowing more money just to service her debts.
service area
service charge
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There’s a service charge for advance tickets.
service club
service industry
service occupations (= a job in which you provide a service rather than producing goods )
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Around two thirds of the labour force is employed in service occupations.
service station
service/maintenance engineer
shoddy goods/service/workmanship etc
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We’re not paying good money for shoddy goods.
shuttle service
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There’s a shuttle service from the city center to the airport.
social service
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Contact social services for help.
tea service
the education service (= all the government organizations that work together to provide education )
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There are plans to expand the adult education service.
the security services/forces (= the police, army etc )
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Clashes with the security forces continued.
the service sector (= the part of the economy to do with providing services, such as banking or tourism )
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The proportion of service sector jobs within the economy has grown.
the wedding service (= the ceremony in a church )
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It was a beautiful wedding service.
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
voluntary work/service
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He does voluntary work with young offenders.
volunteered...services
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I volunteered my services as a driver.
welfare benefits/services/programmes etc
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the provision of education and welfare services
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
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In his early years John the younger saw active service abroad.
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He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then.
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In 1914 Powell was declared unfit for active service , but joined the Admiralty in 1916.
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It was rather like being in the army on active service .
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Bush is one of the last western leaders to have seen active service .
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The Provisionals said that one of their active service units had placed the devices, causing damage to prime commercial property.
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We accepted this as just one of the hazards of being on active service .
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Grey, thinning hair and a tired face betray years of active service .
civil
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They thought a redesigned legal system might constrain the civil service and protect their economic interests.
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They possess a modern civil service of proved ability and critical acumen, at least at the higher levels.
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The terms of employment, which are still linked to the civil service , are to be changed.
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They have to hire most employees from lists of those who have taken written civil service exams.
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She was on her certain way into the civil service from the beginning.
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Those who have worked in the legal civil service report that it is much more interesting than appears at first sight.
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In the civil service merit pay has been extended to cover all grades from April 1990.
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In 1992 structural reforms to limit spending would include reform of the civil service .
domestic
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Leapor's poetry on domestic service is part of a wide range of eighteenth century writings concerned with this type of work.
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They glimpsed each other across grocery counters and in the forced intimacy of domestic service now gone out of style.
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Thus domestic service must be seen as a type of economic relationship operating in all levels of society.
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They know it when their older loved ones die sooner because of having led harsh lives in domestic service or manual labor.
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Olwen Hufton observes that outside domestic service single working women had difficulty surviving on their wages.
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Leapor, then, experienced domestic service not only as a servant but as a mistress.
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In 1881 as many as one in three girls aged between fifteen and twenty had entered domestic service .
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It was her natural defence after her early years of domestic service .
essential
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Public policy should redistribute income and subsidise, if not deliver directly, essential services such as education and health.
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Government finances are strained to the hilt dealing with essential services .
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Whitehall officials have encountered difficulties in deciding which essential services to include.
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There has been harsh rhetoric against documented and undocumented immigrants, as well as attempts to deprive them of essential human services .
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Gas is a desirable but not essential service .
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Disaster-relief loans like those following the Northridge Earthquake are still being made because they are considered essential services .
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What essential services have to be provided and what essential investments have to be made?
financial
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The banks operate the system of payment by cheques and offer a wide range of financial services to their customers.
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Co. for $ 2. 72 billion, putting an end to its money-losing foray into financial services .
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Executive salaries in financial services and the communications industry were 18 percent above average.
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Research and development and financial services are two further areas where progress is still slow.
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The group, based in Woking, Surrey, will be left with financial services and transport businesses.
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Their business now is to provide banking and financial services to the corporate as opposed to personal sectors.
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The plan aimed to upgrade existing industries and to attract a number of new ones, such as financial services .
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It contributes £11,000 million net to our balance of payments. Financial services employ 12 percent of our workforce.
local
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Therefore Kirknewton is not badly served by local bus services in comparison with Ratho.
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The regulation worked out so that the company provided local service at prices that failed to cover more than direct operating costs.
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Parents denied local authority services may seek advice on their legal position.
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Other for-sale-by-owner Internet firms only provided local service , he said.
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This answers Tory demands that the tax should be related to the amount that a household uses local services .
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The trio have clocked up more than 100 years of local authority service between them.
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First, the Social Services Inspectorate is concerned with quality standards in services provided or contracted by local authority social services departments.
memorial
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A memorial service will be held today at Hensall parish church, two miles from Great Heck.
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Nothing was going to stop Ramsey attending the memorial service for a close friend, whether it was legal or illegal.
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Together with the family, directors establish the location, dates, and times of wakes, memorial services , and burials.
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You could tell by who was at his memorial service , from the publishing executive to the receptionist from 10 years ago.
military
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The alacrity with which northerners enlisted for military service whenever warfare flared up on the Border speaks for itself.
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The United States further reserves to these provisions with respect to individuals who volunteer for military service prior to age 18.
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I was seventeen, and most of the other students in my year had done military service and were a lot older.
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Franken also avoided military service with student deferments while at Harvard and, ultimately, a high lottery number.
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Armed forces: No standing army since 1868; citizens under 60 liable to military service in emergency.
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They will consider introducing exemptions from or alternatives to military service . 29.
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The military services themselves have adapted remarkably well and are not less respected for it.
national
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On 31 March 1987 there were 942 practices in the national health service which used a computer.
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No longer was it enough to write a program that connected reliably with local computer bulletin boards or even national on-line services .
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Has not the experiment proved a disaster for vast numbers of national health service patients?
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Improved access to information about services at both local and national services.
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Information gathered by the national criminal intelligence service reveals a growing use of crack cocaine in the Shire counties.
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If that is true, those figures bring little consolation to the national health service as a whole.
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Our congratulations should go out from the House to the national health service for what it is achieving.
personal
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Health and personal social services expenditure trends are harder to interpret.
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The two most obvious and irksome are subjection to satraps and extortion of tribute, including personal military service .
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Management is a very personal service .
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These people work mainly in the new, rapidly growing, employment sectors such as personal services , advertising and the media.
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Restaurants, household and other personal services and less elegant public employments are all their conceded domain.
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The dismantling of the personal social services would also open the way for commercial providers.
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The Weather Communications Aviation Service starts at just £100 per year for a personal telephone service .
postal
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Rules should be made permitting access to postal services on the same basis by all users meeting the same conditions.
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Except when a hurricane hits, life in this part of Mississippi is as regular as the postal service .
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Or you may like to take advantage of our bathroom postal planning service , also £60.
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The Crown relied on the postal service for such notices.
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The Ego was designed as a mere postal service which delivers messages to our conscious mind.
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Internal printing and postal services were reviewed during the year and a reduction from four to three staff was made.
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There will be two direct channels - a fast-answer telephone service for sophisticated customers and a postal service for the less sophisticated.
public
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The aura of compulsion in the public child care services has been extensively analysed in recent years.
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Administrators must constantly interpret and apply public policies that provide public goods and services to individuals and groups. 4.
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In the new liberal framework, however, both system redundancy and public service culture are inexorably fading.
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People from public health services tried to dissuade him, citing bad epidemiology and a waste of important supplies.
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The private sector service industries make only a small contribution while the public services make none.
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Its increase measures the increase in national wealth. Public services , by comparison, are an incubus.
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I want to restore pride in our public services .
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They're all well aware of it in the public services , only they call it going through channels.
secret
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That is the means by which we control the operations of our secret services .
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Even when secret services are grossly incompetent they get away with it.
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This is usually regarded as the most sensitive aspect of secret service work.
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I fired one frame and the secret service guy put his hand up.
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Pacepa was not the first defector from the world of Soviet bloc secret services to make such a claim.
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He also kept a keen eye on MI9, the secret escape service .
social
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Further information: local Age Concern group; social services department.
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It would bar benefit payments and other social services to most noncitizens and legal immigrants.
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But they provided a vital social service and their closure was a disastrous token of things to come.
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Variations in joint commissioning practice between social services and health services will have to be piloted and monitored carefully.
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In particular it requires a more flexible approach to taxation, and the operation of the social services .
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There are some good arguments for tax payers' money being channelled to social service providers that are not statutory bodies.
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Travellers' contact with social work services frequently resulted in the loss of children into care and an alien culture.
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All local authority social services departments offer different kinds of help and support.
■ NOUN
ambulance
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An ambulance service spokesman blamed the icy driving conditions.
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An ambulance service volunteered its equipment to transport a severely crippled man home for weekends.
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An air ambulance service looks set to be scrapped tomorrow.
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It is for the chief ambulance officer of each area ambulance service to decide how best to match those standards.
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The troops will join the police, who were reluctantly involved yesterday after the London ambulance service said it could not cope.
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This is often more comfortable for the patient and relieves the ambulance service .
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He said the order, set up in 1099 as a religious order, was much more than just the ambulance service .
area
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Voice over Oxfordshire County Council wants service areas included in motorways right from the planning stage.
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Echo Sten-Tel's primary service area includes North Dakota and Minnesota.
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In the motorway service areas , Trusthouse Forte alone have invested over £80 million since they were allowed to purchase their leases.
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Southwestern Cable is providing free access to its high-speed Roadrunner Internet service in 14 public libraries within its service area .
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There were already signs that told the motorist he was approaching, say, the Newport Pagnell or Watford Gap service areas .
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He kept his eye on a tan Ford turning slowly into the station and coming to a stop near the service area .
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When the lift doors opened she stepped quickly out into the wide service area , and began to run towards the door.
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When it comes to naming New Jersey Turnpike service areas , being white is definitely the No. 1 qualification.
care
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During 1992-95 we will: Develop and publish free, easy-to-read information about community care services .
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The aura of compulsion in the public child care services has been extensively analysed in recent years.
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Local authorities will produce and public clear plans for the development of community care services in their areas.
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It briefly outlines activities such as helplines, respite care services and consultation on community care proposals.
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We are entering a period of deterioration in health care services .
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A statutory duty on local councils to provide integrated child care services for the under-fives.
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Good community care services work best where skilled professionals work comfortably hand-in-hand with unskilled staff, families, neighbours and voluntary organizations.
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But it had a profound effect on the child care service of the time.
charge
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Local Taxes and normal service charges .
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Is there a service charge on top of the labor charge?
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The service charge may be in dispute or there may be an inadvertent omission to pay on the part of the tenant.
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The rate also includes full breakfast daily, hotel service charges and taxes but not airfare.
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In addition some clubs levy a service charge for infants payable in resort.
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One of the purposes of health service charges is to transfer a proportion of the cost of treatment to the patient.
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And if they didn't, the bill would probably still be lower than the price of the service charge .
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The unions were opposed to proposals for increases in health service charges and restrictions on wage rises for public servants.
community
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At the same time, substantial numbers of mentally handicapped and mentally ill persons were receiving some attention from the community services .
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A misleading assumption is that only lesser will be drawn into community service .
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The community service that is most interesting is by those who indeed are intellectually productive.
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He was banned from driving for 6 months and ordered to do 200 hours of community service .
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Many actually work in community service projects, which most journalists only write about.
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Perhaps local authorities should thankfully accept this solution and turn their attention to the needs of non-dementing elderly residents and community services .
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The offer included a $ 250 fine, community service and domestic violence counseling.
customer
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A high level of customer service also tends to greatly increase distribution costs.
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Hall has said Kmart will focus on improving the look of its stores, customer service and the efficiency of its operations.
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They understood statistical process control, total quality customer service , reengineering, and the economics and finance of film manufacturing.
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Opinions are sought at all levels and team-work training enhances management skills and customer service .
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So would a series of short-term customer service improvement projects aimed at providing positive experiences with change.
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They are very data conscious now and more wired into productivity, quality, the importance of training, and customer service .
emergency
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Under the scheme, only vehicles carrying invalids or supporting the emergency services would be allowed into the centre.
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National Park Service phone lines were jammed with calls throughout the night, affecting emergency service , a park statement said.
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The hon. Gentleman will recognise that many people work on Sundays to deliver our emergency services .
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The frantic driver was able to get out of his car and call emergency services on his mobile phone.
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The emergency services say it could cut vital minutes from the time it takes to respond to a call.
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The subsequent call to emergency services reported a decapitation.
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The incident was one of dozens which emergency services had to deal with across Merseyside on Bonfire Night.
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The city also would get half of any profit made on the emergency service .
health
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Maybe all that stuff about cuts in the health service wasn't true.
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I wonder what the Labour party would cut elsewhere in the health service to make up for that loss of revenue.
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First, health service managers must be able to price their services reasonably accurately for trading purposes.
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The community health services then came to be financed wholly by central government.
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Family health services authorities should have already identified a lead officer for research and development.
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Whatever the position three months earlier, our original offer to the health service could no longer stand.
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Of the 1m females in the health service in 1970, for example, just over 40 percent were part-time workers.
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Cochrane's criticism of the impact of health care has had a lasting influence and is often used to undermine health services .
industry
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Products offered by service industries include hospital care, dental treatment, holiday arrangements and accountancy services, for example. 5.
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Several legislators have urged the government to suspend the controversial value-added tax that was extended to cover service industries .
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You can't afford the service industries unless you've got a good manufacturing base.
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The growing importance of the service industry is especially apparent in a place like Miami.
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According to the report, 45 percent of Hispanic firms were concentrated in the service industry .
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You can be sole trader, in a partnership or limited company, in the manufacturing, retailing or service industries .
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In 1988 slightly more than 82 percent of employed women worked in service industries as compared with 57.5 percent of employed men.
information
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Consumer information services are a new type of catalog business.
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Next in line was information services with 6.4% median turnover growth and 12.3% pre-tax growth.
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These channels act as on-ramps to the Internet or other on-line information services .
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To be very hard-nosed there is also a vested interest in running an efficient information service for a band.
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This meant that companies could set up their own on-line information services without having to use the Interchange network.
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Is our information service adequate to cope?
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The three concerns will focus on high-growth information markets, financial information services and consumer-product market research.
intelligence
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As taxpayers we are entitled to know why intelligence services failed to spot signs of an end to the Cold War.
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At one point U.S. military and intelligence services had 17 spy planes over Escobar's home city of Medellin.
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He was the kind of material Stalin's Intelligence services needed in the Cold War.
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In addition there were comprehensive links between the two intelligence services .
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She'd been in the business long enough not to be surprised by anything the intelligence services got up to.
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Information gathered by the national criminal intelligence service reveals a growing use of crack cocaine in the Shire counties.
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Life in the intelligence services , by a former M16 officer.
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The Foreign Office, Ministry of Defence and intelligence services were resolute in their opposition to relaxation of the security rules.
lip
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Politicians pay lip service to crime.
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It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
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Local authorities are expected to pay more than lip service to this requirement.
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Little has really changed despite lip service paid to the democratic process.
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Are we delicate mistletoe, paying lip service to the green theme, or full-blown Lincoln green?
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The professors all pay lip service to welcoming every point of view, but most really do not.
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This is in spite of the lip service paid to the proud independence of the States.
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It has been a problem, despite all the lip service given it over the years.
provider
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There should also be rules to meet the needs of other service providers .
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The second group of existing language skills I would like to address is that of the service providers .
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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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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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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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And then it grew, and traders and service providers thought it worthwhile to settle here and go into business.
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All service providers require you to buy the local loop segment from your facility to their closest PoP.
rail
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Flooding disrupted rail services in three areas of Devon and Cornwall where flood warnings were issued on 33 rivers.
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I recently travelled on the Kent rail service and visited my hon. Friend's constituency with him.
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A manual of advice on how best to forecast the demand for new rail services of various types will then be prepared.
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We will sell certain rail services and franchise others.
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Public transport is poor - with buses only adequate for local use - and there is no rail service .
room
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And, of course, gave a whole new resonance to the phrase room service .
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Third Message: Hi, listen we got your complaint about the room service .
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It does not include travel insurance, wine and drinks with meals and room service .
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They take Missy on walks through cities and wilderness areas and have learned to forgo restaurant meals for picnics and room service .
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The action takes place over one disastrous weekend full of rain, fights and missing room service .
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We decided that she would take one weekend off at a hotel where they had room service .
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Sitting on my unused bed, swigging room service orange juice, I switch on the Rosenbloom show.
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My room service breakfast practically leaped through the door.
sector
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Since that date the number of jobs in the service sector has risen by over three million.
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They surveyed 1, 598 organizations in 40 different industries about evenly split between manufacturing and the service sector .
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These are not new jobs as such, but rather jobs that have been reclassified as service sector jobs.
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Huge growth in the service sector is largely dependent on people and not machines.
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He estimates that for every one manufacturing job there are up to four service sector jobs dependent on it.
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Real income growth is rising, but the number of high-paying jobs is shrinking with expansion of the service sector .
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The service sector - the financial sector which produces nothing - needs inflation.
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Expansion in the service sector has been considerably smaller than the decline in manufacturing.
security
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In Northern Ireland, the police, in common with the other security services , are controlled directly by central government.
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Security September 1990: Leaders of Communist international security service put on trial.
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The revelations will deeply embarrass the security services and lead to further accusations of incompetence as yet another operative tells his story.
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The city council estimates that the conference will bring an £11 million bonanza for hotels, restaurants, shops and security services .
station
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Two hours later and ravenous, we settled for egg and chips at a motorway service station .
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To help pay the bills, I worked every night until eleven at a Sinclair service station on Main Street.
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Well, if you stop to fill up at a motorway service station your dreams could come true.
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Today, the town has a service station , convenience store, barber shop and a few smaller service businesses.
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So it will be some time before he can turn his full attention to his hobby-horse Britain's motorway service station crisis.
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Johnson was reading a local newspaper he had bought at the Frankenwald service station when his phone trilled discreetly.
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She pulled in at a motorway service station and decided on lunch.
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However, most people would welcome a greater availability of motorway service stations .
welfare
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These groups can also have different experiences of authority and welfare services .
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The object of this research is to examine the structure of public opinion about state and private welfare services .
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He advocates ways of limiting men's role in child welfare services , and says men should practice nurturing each other.
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It became an impersonal, distant, uncaring, social and welfare service .
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C., a proposal in Congress would end federal financing for health and welfare services for legal immigrants.
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We aim to provide and extend a welfare service and raise many thousands of pounds annually to sponsor medical research.
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However, the most striking developments in welfare services have been on the delivery side rather than the personal counselling aspect.
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The development of welfare services in Northern Ireland.
■ VERB
improve
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And the aim was to improve services for people in the town.
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He is enticing insurance companies to improve their level of service to urban areas.
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They rake through customer complaints for ideas for improving their products or service .
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Short-term projects to improve customer service might buck up the conviction of those managers.
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While regrettable, this will enable us to maintain the collections and improve the level of service that we currently offer.
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Since it began its pay-for-service test about two years ago, the bureau has improved its service , he said.
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Their support is based on a belief that the left governments have clean hands and have improved municipal services .
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The rise in imports reflects the efforts of foreign companies to expand sales networks and improve service here.
offer
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The future was in offering services over the Internet, he added.
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The aftercare program offers medical and psychosocial services to homeless youths.
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Solicitors willing to offer either of these services are indicated in the Solicitors Regional Directory.
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They prevent problems before they emerge, rather than simply offering services afterward.
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Many of them offer wide-ranging services .
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After Friday, the Postal Service will no longer offer packing services at its post offices.
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More than 120 stockbrokers in Britain offer share-dealing services to private investors.
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Providers can offer this service with both dial-up pools and private lines.
pay
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Society pays noisy lip service to monogamy but, in reality, encourages affairs.
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What amount is the consumer willing to pay for these services ?
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You're paying for the service , and I provide it.
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You own the phone, as you can in your own house, but you must pay for the service .
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These councillors were not paid for their services and paid their own expenses.
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It pays for these services with oligopolistic profits.
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Of course, this simplest first step opens whole new avenues to explore about how we pay for services .
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Take greater advantage of federal money that pays for many services .
provide
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There are also many organisations who provide a variety of services to people with HIV/AIDS.
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There are specialist firms who will provide this service .
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Over the years, they built a network of local dealerships and warehouses to sell equipment and provide service and repairs.
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All these departments provide a support service to the Group in their specialised fields.
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Nielsen Media Research, provides information services for broadcasters; and Gartner Group, provides advisory services in the technology sector.
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Nevertheless, Southwark will provide services based on clear and publicly available eligibility criteria.
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Instead, the city should be preparing to bid on the contracts to provide services to the new communities.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
domiciliary services/care/visits etc
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Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
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Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.
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It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
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Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
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Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
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One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.
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Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
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Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.
pay lip service to sb/sth
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It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
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Politicians pay lip service to crime.
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Previous governments have paid lip service to the idea but achieved little.
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The conventional methodology tends to pay lip service to user involvement.
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The professors all pay lip service to welcoming every point of view, but most really do not.
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They pay lip service to equality but they don't want to have to do anything committed about it.
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Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.
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We need to stop paying lip service to them.
premium rate number/line/service
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Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information, Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service.
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Choice has not been considered in premium rate services.
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That is certainly true in the context of telecommunications and, more specifically, in premium rate services.
press sb/sth into service
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Cut it down, dye it red and press it into service for that next dinner dance?
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Eric, at the time a budding saxophonist, press ganged Melanie into service as a singer in his band Adventure.
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It presses new mutations into service as they arise and is just as ready to make do with what is already around.
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The penguin presses the pants into service for a dastardly diamond heist.
skeleton staff/crew/service etc
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A skeleton staff was on duty to keep the world-wide operations of Royalbion ticking over.
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The skeleton staff were no match for Massenga and his team of ex-Security policemen.
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The Automobile Association skeleton staff trio will be huddled in front of their personal computer screens relaying road conditions to drivers.
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The doc pointed out how appropriate it was to have a Skull in a skeleton crew.
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The Republicans and Democrats tick over with a skeleton staff and then hire specialist consultants for each campaign.
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There was only a skeleton staff on duty and no one took much notice of him.
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Various versions were filmed on closed sets with skeleton crews and strict security.
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Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews.
social services
the Diplomatic Service
the civil service
the secret service
voluntary work/service etc
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A larger number still provide a wide range of formal and informal voluntary services.
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A recent Gallup poll found that 98m adults are involved in voluntary service, a 23% increase in two years.
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An alternative to clubs and classes is voluntary work.
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But people without a job who have found fulfilling voluntary work or an absorbing hobby also score highly.
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Morley took up her evenings but daytime was given to voluntary work.
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Several had written books and articles and others were involved in voluntary work.
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Use the expertise and facilities of your local authorities and voluntary services for practical help, advice and social activities.
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We have a great tradition of voluntary services and charitable giving.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A private car service is available from the airport.
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Any major problems with the car should be picked up at the 5,000 mile service .
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Electrical service was cut off from up to five hours in some parts of the country yesterday.
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I'm looking for information on family planning services.
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I just subscribed to a new e-mail service .
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I thought the service in the pizza place was very good.
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My car's due for service - I'll book it into a garage next week.
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The business, if properly regulated, performs a useful service for lottery winners.
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the foreign service
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The priest who performed the marriage service is a friend of the family.
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the U.S. customs service
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There were usually most people at the evening service .
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We always go to the service on Sunday morning.
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We got incredibly good service at that French restaurant.
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We knew the should would never survive if we didn't provide a good service from the minute we opened the doors.
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We recommend an annual service for all central heating boilers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It's growing out of sync with the rest of service provision and service development, and this has all sorts of spin-offs.
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It is important to note that we have greatly increased the number of professionals providing services on a wide range of fronts.
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Nevertheless, the share of national income going to government spending on goods and services is now falling.
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Social services departments were strongly criticized in the 1980s for not taking more effective action to protect children at risk.
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The service starts at 11.00 a.m.
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The other sources of free Web space are the many providers of free email services.
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Though it offers more sites and possibilities than any on-line service , it can be confusing, and the quality uneven.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
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Eddie did the shopping, tended the garden, mended the taps and the fuses, and serviced the family car .
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Labels are required to prevent cross-contamination by an auto repair shop that services the car at a later date.
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We used to service good cars in the old days.
cost
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As real interest rates rose, so did the cost of servicing the government's debt.
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Moreover once there are separate national currencies, there are costs of servicing the foreign exchange market.
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The cost of servicing these liabilities would soar if the peso were devalued.
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Soaring inflation meanwhile reduced the real cost of servicing a mortgage.
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Interest rates will also affect net worth through influencing the cost of servicing existing debts.
debt
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The initial acquisition of the house sucked most people into debt , often more debt than they could service .
loan
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Banks' need for capital is greatest when economies are in recession and borrowers can not service their loans .
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A lawyer representing the company currently servicing the loan denies Aikens' assertions.
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Yet still his outgoings, swollen by servicing the loans , were not covered in their entirety.
need
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Every Partnership developing a Compact will design a management structure servicing its particular needs .
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My adrenalin surge could service the needs of West Texas for a week.
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By keeping close to customers, we are better able to service their needs and we can keep ahead of industry trends.
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The union's slogan informs you that it is concerned with servicing the needs of today's musicians.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
domiciliary services/care/visits etc
▪
Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
▪
Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.
▪
It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
▪
Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
▪
Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
▪
One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.
▪
Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
▪
Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.
pay lip service to sb/sth
▪
It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
▪
Politicians pay lip service to crime.
▪
Previous governments have paid lip service to the idea but achieved little.
▪
The conventional methodology tends to pay lip service to user involvement.
▪
The professors all pay lip service to welcoming every point of view, but most really do not.
▪
They pay lip service to equality but they don't want to have to do anything committed about it.
▪
Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.
▪
We need to stop paying lip service to them.
premium rate number/line/service
▪
Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information, Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service.
▪
Choice has not been considered in premium rate services.
▪
That is certainly true in the context of telecommunications and, more specifically, in premium rate services.
skeleton staff/crew/service etc
▪
A skeleton staff was on duty to keep the world-wide operations of Royalbion ticking over.
▪
The skeleton staff were no match for Massenga and his team of ex-Security policemen.
▪
The Automobile Association skeleton staff trio will be huddled in front of their personal computer screens relaying road conditions to drivers.
▪
The doc pointed out how appropriate it was to have a Skull in a skeleton crew.
▪
The Republicans and Democrats tick over with a skeleton staff and then hire specialist consultants for each campaign.
▪
There was only a skeleton staff on duty and no one took much notice of him.
▪
Various versions were filmed on closed sets with skeleton crews and strict security.
▪
Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews.
social services
the Diplomatic Service
the civil service
the secret service
voluntary work/service etc
▪
A larger number still provide a wide range of formal and informal voluntary services.
▪
A recent Gallup poll found that 98m adults are involved in voluntary service, a 23% increase in two years.
▪
An alternative to clubs and classes is voluntary work.
▪
But people without a job who have found fulfilling voluntary work or an absorbing hobby also score highly.
▪
Morley took up her evenings but daytime was given to voluntary work.
▪
Several had written books and articles and others were involved in voluntary work.
▪
Use the expertise and facilities of your local authorities and voluntary services for practical help, advice and social activities.
▪
We have a great tradition of voluntary services and charitable giving.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All our machinery is serviced regularly.
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Dunn's firm services 72 arts organizations across the nation.
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I'm having the car serviced next week.
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When was the plane last serviced?
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You should have your car serviced every six months.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Especially because they usually split the take with the syndicates who sell and service their output.
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The weakness of the economy still makes it harder for companies to service their debt.