I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a charge/store card (= one that allows you to buy things from a particular shop and pay for them later )
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Store cards often have high rates of interest.
a department store/video store/food store etc chain
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Morgan was the owner of a computer store chain.
a department store/video store/food store etc chain
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Morgan was the owner of a computer store chain.
a department store/video store/food store etc chain
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Morgan was the owner of a computer store chain.
a discount store/shop (= selling things more cheaply than other shops )
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There's a lot of competition from large discount stores.
a shop/store window
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She looked in shop windows.
anchor store
chain store
cold store
convenience store
department store
dime store
flagship store
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The firm has just opened a flagship store in Las Vegas.
general store
high street banks/shops/stores etc
hold/store sth on a computer
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This data is all held on a central computer.
lay in store
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I was wondering what lay in store for us.
liquor store
multiple store
outlet store
retail outlet/shop/store/chain
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We are looking for more retail outlets for our products.
secondhand store/shop etc (= a shop that sells second-hand things )
store brand
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Store brands are cheaper than name brands.
store card
store data
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The data is stored on a computer in our central office.
store detective
store energy
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Batteries store the energy from the solar panels.
store sth in a container
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Carrots from the garden were stored in containers of sand in the cellar.
there’s a surprise in store (for sb) (= something unexpected is going to happen )
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There were plenty more surprises in store for him.
variety store
warehouse store
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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She went up West, to look for a job in one of the big department stores .
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He also took me to a big department store , the likes of which I had never before seen.
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Go to No. 16 shed, our big flat store , and ask and if they want overtime.
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But most big stores admit they daren't put prices up for fear of losing the few customers they have.
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They are the reason he asked Mobil to let him build a bigger store .
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He had owned a big department store that had burned down, and he had then hanged himself.
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Everyone was so fed up with trying to get their clothes in big department stores or boutiques.
cold
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The buyer's carrier went to the cold store with a delivery order.
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But the effect seemed diluted as he then toured the docks' cold store which was stuffed full of apples.
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They then went into a cold store and stole dozens of cartons of cream.
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Originally built for food manufacture it incorporates a number of free standing cold stores which can be removed if required.
general
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The village boasts a general store , a butcher's shop, a community post office and two public houses.
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In addition, picnic supplies can be purchased at general stores within the park.
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Upon arrival, they are told that they must buy all their daily supplies at an on-site general store .
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It marked a return to the general store of frontier days.
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The old general store had gone but the shade thorn tree was still there, bewildered by its surround of concrete pavement.
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Increasingly price-conscious consumers are shopping less at department stores and more at discount stores and general merchandise stores.
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Other amenities include a post office and general store , and a free house, the Bricklayers' Arms.
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It has a restaurant and a tiny general store with overpriced merchandise.
great
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And that the Department could make better use of the great store of experience within the teaching profession during the consultation process.
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They put great store in filial piety and playing by their rules.
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Finniston still puts great store in these qualities today and he believes they equally apply to any kind of company or organisation.
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Being thus disappointed, I now set great store by what the first night might bring.
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It apparently sets great store by creating business and completing assignments relatively quickly.
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By contrast, Rhone Poulenc and Molycorp have set great store on producing consistent levels of purity.
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The ancient Israelites set great store by proper burial.
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The conclusion is surely that they do not place great store by our profession or its body.
large
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Tissue neutrophils did not express the lysozyme mRNA, though they have large stores of the protein.
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For designers, for whom large retail stores are the main selling outlet, the news is not good.
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Price: £19.95 from large diy stores .
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Soon, the station will complete a new, larger convenience store .
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First, they generally need very large memory stores , typically of the order of hundreds of megabytes.
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Few businesses larger than convenience stores planned to open today.
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If you were asked to select the towns for two new large department stores , which two would you choose and why?
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Chains may order massive quantities of books to fill their large stores .
local
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While the shop supplies all of the local wholefood stores and hotels, it remains very much a family concern.
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Bernie takes his bland government sedan to the local grocery store and trundles his way down the fresh produce aisle.
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This may involve the provision and limited stocking or small local stores .
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He would like to see it sold through local drug stores .
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Card magic cake Buy some regular sponge cake from a local store .
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Her husband, Jim Gerlich, 30, is a sales manager with a local department store .
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Nowadays, many top designers also produce mass-produced goods which we can buy in the local department store .
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This is one of the best things on your local comic book stores shelves.
new
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Work is still going on in fitting out a new store right up to the last minute.
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The company will also open a new store in both 1997 and 1998.
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Passing places on the local roads in and around the new store have also been built.
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Two new stores have opened already and we are expecting to achieve stronger results in all area.
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The rise includes new stores , which increased selling space in the period by 4. 5 %, the company said.
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Nine new stores and two major enlargements are planned for the current year.
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OfficeMax Inc., for one, will open 80 new stores this year with internal funds.
small
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Number 73 was just a doorway between a travel agent and a small grocery store , with three steps leading up to it.
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One glimpsed the fresh-fruit stands and small grocery store dotting the edge of a small world never available.
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This may involve the provision and limited stocking or small local stores .
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It heats a laborers' hostel, 18 apartment buildings, four city-owned businesses and a handful of small stores .
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Jovana is 16 and works under-the-table, buying bread wholesale and selling it back to small stores .
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Hundreds of smaller chains and stores went out of business, many hurt by price wars waged by appliance chains.
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I know that the Minister likes small stores , because she referred to them. in her speech on 14 October.
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My parents and brother took up the offer and discovered for themselves how profitable the small store was.
■ NOUN
chain
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Separate from these groups was the large mass of youth whose clothes were chain store versions of traditional styles.
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Today, major chain stores and automakers are slated to release December sales figures.
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This desire in the commercial sector to create a solid, established identity reflects the rise of the chain store .
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Since November, the pace of borrowing likely slowed as department and chain stores reported dismal holiday sales.
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The streets are dominated by chain stores .
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With the chain stores and restaurants, one town looks a lot like any other.
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The chain store piloted a 13-week part-time secondment programme in which five employees spent hours working with five voluntary organisations.
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Problem is, those indexes represent just random samplings of chain stores .
convenience
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Police spoke of a benign new law enforcement tactic no more intrusive than a video camera at a convenience store .
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Price these items in two supermarkets and a convenience store .
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At a convenience store / gas station in Manvel, several people seek refuge from the storms.
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If the relative robbed a convenience store , well, maybe no.
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Soon, the station will complete a new, larger convenience store .
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Craig comes in from his job at a convenience store .
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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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The call was traced to a pay phone at a convenience store .
department
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He had taken her to Boston's leading department store .
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Her husband, Jim Gerlich, 30, is a sales manager with a local department store .
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It's thought to have cost the Dickens and Jones department store £100,000 in lost business.
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The department store chain will consolidate its regional businesses into its Schaumburg, Illinois.
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In 1968 he married Sonja Haraldsen, the daughter of a department store owner.
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No jobs for saleswomen in the department stores .
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The winning objects will be sold at reasonable prices in 300 department stores , from the date our exhibition begins.
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That promotion angle is also a tack taken by department stores .
discount
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Grocery and discount stores give shoppers with buyers' cards special discounts in exchange for permission to gather information on their purchases.
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To make matters worse a discount store had opened in the area and it was selling the same beds at £140 each.
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The jacket comes from a discount store on Canal Street, part of a discontinued line of two-trousered suits.
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Once the site of Seals Stadium, the eight-acre parcel was later home to a White Front discount store .
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You can get a comfortable, cozy look with items from department and discount stores .
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Increasingly price-conscious consumers are shopping less at department stores and more at discount stores and general merchandise stores.
food
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I mention the food stores because on this occasion they were to prove important.
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Similasan Eye Drops 3 for computer eye fatigue will be available beginning this month in health food stores and select pharmacies.
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Thousands of Nuba were forced to flee as government soldiers scaled the mountains, destroying almost 2,500 homes and burning food stores .
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A health food store is a good place to search for the herbs listed above.
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The first door to port opened up into a food store , the corresponding door to starboard was locked.
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The children ate organic foods from health food stores and from the garden at their home.
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A box of eight sausages costs around £1.95, from food stores and health food shops.
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Each week, sometimes twice weekly, food stores advertise their specials in the local newspapers.
furniture
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The shop was owned by Mr. Sewell who also ran a furniture store , further up the street at No. 29.
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Edusha had lost her job in the furniture store .
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Standing in the lighted alcove of a furniture store at Glasgow Cross.
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At the end, he had his own furniture store in Manhattan.
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One of the most bizarre things I saw was the lengthy and intricate preparation for the blessing of a new furniture store .
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Edusha, now working in the furniture store , was away from home all day.
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Friends of the Earth want shoppers to boycott some furniture stores , including Hatfields of Colchester.
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Holliday, the downtown furniture store manager, said he was in his second-floor office when the quake struck.
grocery
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Number 73 was just a doorway between a travel agent and a small grocery store , with three steps leading up to it.
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Bernie takes his bland government sedan to the local grocery store and trundles his way down the fresh produce aisle.
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Constable Jamieson was talking to Mr Fox, who owned the grocery store .
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Its aim was to become the single line of spices carried by most grocery stores .
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Kindergartners sometimes panhandle for food money outside grocery stores .
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One glimpsed the fresh-fruit stands and small grocery store dotting the edge of a small world never available.
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Another drunken former farmhand draped himself across the counter of the farm's lone grocery store .
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He went to the grocery store and bought food.
hardware
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She had two rooms above a hardware store in Venus.
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Rioters broke into hardware stores and armed themselves, demolished black businesses, and even robbed stores kept by white men.
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It was sub-Post Office, supermarket, hardware store , clothes shop, newsagent's and chemist's packed into one room.
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As it turns out, Heflin is not the brightest bulb in the hardware store .
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You also need brushes which you can buy from a hardware store .
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Not that it was a completely wasted trip, what with the hardware store right next door.
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He believes they were bought from a camping or hardware store in the week leading up to April 27.
liquor
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I pulled the car in beside a late-business liquor store .
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The clerk in the liquor store had recommended that she let this red wine breathe before serving it.
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I've been through my neighbourhood, where they've torn down liquor stores and burnt down everything.
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The unanimous vote was applauded by community groups concerned that liquor stores lead to more drinking and more crime.
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On Dec. 31, 91 people died in Bombay after drinking poisoned liquor bought at a government-licensed liquor store .
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He went back into the liquor store and called Yellow Cab.
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BTheodora sees Johnny up the street, bums a little change, then heads to a nearby liquor store .
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It requires anyone seeking to open a liquor store in a high-crime area to obtain a conditional-use permit from the city.
manager
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As a stores manager , Horne finds that the quantity of 1,1,1 used in labs is small.
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Even more disturbing was the method the store manager had developed to cope with the emergency.
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A gun's been recovered after the latest attack, in which a store manager was held captive for six hours.
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Huggins periodically asks store managers to nominate 10 chocolates for oblivion to make room for new products.
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The store manager has no say in objectives of the organisation.
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We want our store managers to take the business home in their stomach.
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Power: Both the store manager and the personnel manger at Burger King did not like the use of the word power.
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The store manager appeared and opened the door.
owner
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The room was originally designed for the Pennsylvanian department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann from 1935.
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They have this preconception of a gun store owner .
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In 1968 he married Sonja Haraldsen, the daughter of a department store owner .
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Modena Fuston, a 67-year-old former store owner , is one such constituent.
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And there are no plans to prosecute the store owners .
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Smith, admitting he had an unreported business relationship with the department store owner , resigned as junior minister for Northern Ireland.
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Now store owner Paul Harper has offered a £500 reward for information leading to a conviction.
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For store owners to think that customer growth will come via cars to an already terribly congested downtown area is beyond belief.
shoe
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One unfortunate woman who ran a discount shoe store was oblivious to the fact she was sitting on an old school goldmine.
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As part of the plan, Sears said it is withdrawing from Saxone and Curtess shoe stores .
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Worst-hit are clothing and shoe stores where sales crashed even with up to 70 percent price cuts.
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The only trouble was, there was no ladies' shoe store in Mitford.
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Sally was constantly going back and forth to the shoe store trying to find shoes that Hannah would wear.
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Dentist done moved out. Shoe store gone.
street
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Look for these products in your high street stores or write for stockists and further information to Abbey Kapok &038; Fillings,.
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And ten years later most other high street stores were following suit.
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They won a choice of either High Street store vouchers or a flying or gliding lesson.
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This is a shareware version of a popular commercial game sold through high street stores and includes 20 missions.
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This seems highly unlikely at a time when high street stores are holding sales before Christmas.
■ VERB
close
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Musicland Stores Corp., which includes the Sam Goody chain, closed 64 stores in 1995 and may close more.
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Mrs Wermer retired and closed her Potomac store 10 years ago.
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Still, some analysts have said that for Kmart to regroup, it needs to close hundreds of stores .
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Then Reno closed the store and rushed over to our place.
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We close the store at seven.
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Nevertheless, much of the debt from the closed stores remained to be paid.
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It has since closed 100 stores in an effort to stem losses.
lie
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Pray heaven she might find the courage to endure the horrors that must lie in store !
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Earthquake experts like to talk about what lies in store for New York City.
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Are we so blind as to miss what may lie in store for us?
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Earlier writers had given hints of the rewards that lay in store for those who followed this intellectual path.
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Only when they saw the hooded men with blood-covered knives approaching their cars did they realise what lay in store for them.
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And we knew what lay in store from him as well.
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But that was before she'd known the traumas that lay in store for her.
open
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Supermarket chain said it would open the store in Clayton Square in January, creating 200 new jobs.
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The company will also open a new store in both 1997 and 1998.
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Argos opened 19 stores last year, with 25 more planned for 1993.
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He turned his back to him and opening up his store .
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Consequently, most merchants simply open their stores or kiosks, frequently by invading parts of the street or the sidewalk.
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It started off under-funded and expanded too quickly, opening 35 stores in 32 months.
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Both retailers started up locally in the 1970s and often opened stores near each other.
run
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With the help of the Village Retail Services Association it formed a co-operative to run a village store in temporary accommodation.
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A former grocer from Rector Street, at twenty he had gone bankrupt trying to run a cigar store on Pearl Street.
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One unfortunate woman who ran a discount shoe store was oblivious to the fact she was sitting on an old school goldmine.
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The Hom family ran the store .
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His parents ran a cloth store .
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I remember one time when she had an affair with a guy who ran some store in the mall.
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The competition will run in all stores , and entry is free.
sell
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Our expert tested the standard mince pies sold by each store , rather than the luxury versions.
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There are a lot of house numbers in figure form sold in stores and catalogs, but script numbers are hiding somewhere.
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Ixora met a man, a travelling businessman who visited the islands throughout the winter, selling to the department stores .
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He would like to see it sold through local drug stores .
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Eventually, dealers say, the irritant is expected to be sold in retail stores and convenience markets as well.
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Ann Bailey, who sells stationery at the store from which Revel buys his maps of Bleston.
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Zatar is sold already blended in stores that carry Middle Eastern foods.
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To hold and expand volume, supermarkets took on nonfood lines, products that were not previously sold in grocery stores .
set
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It apparently sets great store by creating business and completing assignments relatively quickly.
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And they set up their own store .
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I want you to have the portrait too, as you set so much store by it.
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None the less you set store by a certain orderly look to things.
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She had set much store by retaining or restoring her relations with these men, and thought she knew why.
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Not the goods but the employment provided by their production was the thing by which we set ultimate store .
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By contrast, Rhone Poulenc and Molycorp have set great store on producing consistent levels of purity.
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Being thus disappointed, I now set great store by what the first night might bring.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
one-stop shop/store etc
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Intuit is now aiming to become a one-stop shopping source for anyone looking to do home banking.
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Once combined, the companies hope to provide one-stop shopping-all of their services to customers on one bill.
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The attraction to consumers, Schneider said, would be one-stop shopping and possibly extra services.
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The companies' will explore ways to provide one-stop shopping for utilities that want to automate many of their business functions.
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The opening would give many franchisers their first permanent showrooms and allow for one-stop shopping by potential franchisees.
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Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The book is a store of knowledge about Dickens.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He reportedly warned of a bomb placed at an unspecified Boots store in Liverpool.
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Her background is interior design, and she works as a designer at a furniture store .
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Most SuperTarget stores employ about 500 people, -- compared with about 200 employees in traditional Target stores, Knach said.
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Simply use a dice and counters and see what fate has in store .
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The store , at Balloan Park in Inverness, will open on 4 March.
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The boy ransacked his father's stores for old guns, shields and spears which we hung in the entrance hall.
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We have been to the Horton Plaza store .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
amount
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They store any amount from one to nine.
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They have become smaller, faster and able to store huge amounts of data.
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A hard disk enables the microcomputer to store vast amounts of information on disk.
body
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Remember that the B vitamins and vitamin C can not be stored in your body .
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None gets stored as body fat.
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Protein is stored in the body and blood fats increase steadily up to the time of birth.
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Both B and C vitamins, being water soluble, can not be stored in the body and must be replaced daily.
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So in order to store them inside its body , the Bombardier Beetle has evolved a chemical inhibitor to make them harmless.
computer
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A bit is the smallest amount of information that a computer can store , ie 0 or 1.
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We started at a local computer store , a big discounter like CompUSA but with another name.
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All computer information when inside the computer is stored in binary code form.
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They will be sold at electronics and computer stores as well as at toy retailers, such as Toys R Us.
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Memory-the part of the computer which stores information for immediate access.
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D., a personal computer , which stores notes and helps you advance the plot.
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Basics 8.2.1 All computers are able to store and retrieve information from a non-volatile medium.
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These regional hubs will be packed with server computers that store the most frequently accessed data on the Internet.
data
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After a time, the data was stored in a computer at army headquarters, Lisburn.
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The virus then scrambles that data and stores it someplace else on the disk.
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One of the most important is using information about the type of data stored in order to to prevent howlers.
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Instead, a user dials into the Internet worldwide computer network and uses software and data that are stored there.
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We have an enormous amount of data stored on 9C computers nationwide.
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For one thing, the data is by definition stored off-site.
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These objects will be able to link to data stored anywhere in the enterprise using the company's OpenODB object-oriented database.
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The data you store today may be difficult or impossible to read in just a few years.
database
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Attribute data relate to the properties of the points, lines and polygons that are stored in the cartographic database .
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HelpDesk requests are stored in an historical database , which can be searched for effective answers to future reader queries.
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If a user is stored in the character database then very high performance can be achieved.
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Much of the information is stored in databases .
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The vector sequence obtained is matched against what is stored in the database .
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A gateway to the Sybase database allows developed applications to call procedures defined and stored in the Sybase database.
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The data is stored in a relational database .
disk
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It enables moving pictures as well as text and graphics to be stored on compact disks .
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You can combine, or merge, documents that are stored separately on the disk .
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For example: a file is to be stored on a 3380 disk , fourteen records per track, starting at cylinder 23.
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The screen displays a list of the macros stored on your default disk drive.
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These sub-dictionaries are stored on disk and are read in as required.
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Macros stored on disk are useful when you will use a series of keystrokes in many different documents.
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He then said that the program would not have been patentable had it been stored on a floppy disk .
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The file will be stored on disk line by line, with a carriage return after each line.
document
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Type the name of the stored document , then press Enter.
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The highlighted text will be added to the end of the stored document .
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Since these programs take up most of that disk, there is little room to store your own documents .
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You must have enough space on your disk to store your documents as well as the macro instructions.
energy
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From then on, the crystals continue to accumulate and store energy .
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He felt the heat radiating up from the receiver, hoping to take heart from this release of stored energy .
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New Scientist took up some original thought on an old idea, the flywheel, which can store energy with high efficiency.
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When winter came, some of them would not have enough stored energy to survive, and they would die.
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Night is required by plants to store the energy collected during the day.
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Are animals able to store energy ?
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A flywheel will be added to the system next year to store kinetic energy lost by braking.
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The high-speed flywheel will store the energy and use it to get the vehicle moving again.
file
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Each attribute or set of related attributes is stored in its own file .
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Instead they have calculated benefits using a calculator and storing files in manila folders.
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Most user and system activity was captured and stored in machine-readable log files .
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These images can be stored in computer files and viewed on the screen of any personal computer connected to the system.
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The old file won't itself be finally lost until all its space happens to be used for storing new files.
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Following earlier reductions in the staff the offices in our basement were unoccupied, but used for storing old files .
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The target word that the user intended to write at each position is also known and stored in a file .
food
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When he rooted around the kitchen he was amazed at the amount of food she had stored .
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Some foods were stored in covered jars, although meats and herbs would be hunt from the ceiling.
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Barrett health-\#food stores , 185 Supersave Drugstores and distributes drugs and medical supplies.
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Barrett health food stores and 185 Supersave Drugstores.
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In the evening, at the wrap, we would have to put the food away and store it properly.
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Barrett health food stores and transfer 176 stores to its chemist division.
form
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The analogue signal was stored in digitised form on a computer hard drive.
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For convenience, this information is not stored in human form , but in some magnetic or electronic device.
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All computer information when inside the computer is stored in binary code form .
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Information such as this is conveniently stored in the form of addition and multiplication tables as follows.
image
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The client-server version of BRS/Search can store text, images , graphics, audio and video documents.
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The computer-controlled telescope stores these images on magnetic media.
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Fonts are not stored as digitised images but as mathematical representations of the shape of each character.
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They all store reference images in either a thin or volume hologram and retrieve them in a coherently illuminated feedback loop.
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Increasing the number of displayable colours or shades of grey requires more memory to store the image .
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Compact disks that can store high quality images will change the market even more radically.
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This means that a Data Discman disc can store up to 32,000 separate images .
information
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Where health information is stored in computers, it is important that the patient understands the safeguards against unauthorised people gaining access.
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Where or how is all the information stored ?
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Of most importance to the higher level processes is the information stored with the end of word flag.
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A great deal of that historical information was conveniently stored at the University of Edinburgh, three hundred miles northwest of Cambridge.
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The trie structure does allow such information to be stored at the end of word nodes.
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For convenience, this information is not stored in human form, but in some magnetic or electronic device.
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She watched how we worked and communicated and how messages and information were received, stored , and sent out.
item
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Traders were allowed to store unsold items and the Trade Ministry offered to buy them at reasonable prices.
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Inside there's a small hanging shelf that is handy for storing small items or for hanging a torch.
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This is the Control File which stores up to 14 items of information that control how the export is to be done.
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They were used to store such items as candles, dustbins and ashtrays for the Civil Service.
memory
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She stored that memory away, together with the memory of the forest in the foreground as she walked on.
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Interestingly, the impairment is of the ability to form new memories , not the ability to recall stored memories.
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The experience is not forgotten but is stored in memory .
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While online, the user could play the game, which would be stored in short-term memory .
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All this is stored in the subconscious memory and the habit continues when we grow up.
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Everything stored in the memory of a computer can be copied on to removable diskettes.
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In the midst of darkness come some stored memories of a different sort.
program
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To store more data and programs when the power is off, most computers use magnetic discs.
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The fiber is useless unless it connects customers to equipment that transmits or stores information or video programs .
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Madreidetic who then also sold data-cubes and stored their own hidden programs within the crystalline lattice.
record
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The program uses five files each which can store one thousand records .
shoe
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Louis-based Edison Brothers Stores said it would close 473 apparel and shoe stores by Jan. 31.
warehouse
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The bill was introduced in response to a wave of food riots and looting of warehouses used to store foreign aid supplies.
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What sort of distribution warehouses are needed to store and deliver their multimedia cargo?
waste
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The country lacked the technology to store the waste safely and it was threatening water supplies.
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They say it's irresponsible to store radioactive waste where it can be a public danger and a safety risk.
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The dump is intended to store low- and intermediate-level waste from the year 2005.
water
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The command module also had provision for storing an emergency water supply added.
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The vessel was probably used to store acorns or water , Ver Planck said.
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Layers of rock that are porous and permeable enough to store water and let it flow through them easily are called aquifers.
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It was quite another thing to build a dam, store the water , and make the desert bloom.
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A classic example is a capacity to store water in their feathers.
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The stored water could then be used to irrigate adjacent agricultural land, and hydropower revenues would cover the inevitable losses.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Store the medicine in a cool place.
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All of my old books are stored in boxes in the attic.
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Data regarding employees' salaries are stored on the computer at the main office.
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How much information can you store on your hard drive?
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Huge amounts of information can be stored on a single CD-ROM.
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Instead of being distributed, the food was unloaded and stored away in a warehouse.
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The cards can be stored alphabetically.
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The computer stores the information in its memory automatically.
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The government plans to store the nuclear waste at a site in Nevada.
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The warehouse is being used to store food and clothes for the refugees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He only hoped the electronic equipment was safely stored away.
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It is proposed that this collection should be sifted, and the contents scanned and stored electronically on optical media.
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Since they are predictable, the camera moves are sometimes preprogrammed and stored in computers.
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What that experience demonstrates is that the teacher very rarely uses the voluminous information, which is nevertheless conscientiously stored and retained.
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When stock is reduced and full of flavor, strain carefully, let cool, and store .