I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
venture capital
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
commercial
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After dabbling in commercial ventures from within Titan for nearly four years, the company took a bold new step.
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These commercial ventures led to many disputes, and Love was extremely litigious, appearing often as a plaintiff in Chancery.
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The company invests in industrial, commercial and service ventures with a strong emphasis in textiles.
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This is a commercial venture from which we aim to make a profit.
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The movement born as an alternative to the arid materialism of consumer culture is here hawked and promoted like any commercial venture .
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This is a peculiar anomaly in that the Transfer Regulations currently exclude undertakings in the nature of commercial ventures .
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Hence the Act is really talking in terms of a commercial venture A single transaction will be sufficient to satisfy s 45. 2.
cooperative
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Marriage teeters on the line between a cooperative venture and a form of mutual exploitation-ask any divorce lawyer.
joint
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This joint venture between George Gibson &038; Co.
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To achieve this, Quinlan is pushing ahead with a salad of deals, alliances and joint ventures .
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For example, large companies created ex nihilo, as in joint ventures , have a remarkable tendency to flop.
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Manufacturers of equipment for telecommunications, defence electronics and household appliances have merged or entered joint ventures to ensure their continued competitiveness.
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Today, few restaurant companies generate ideas in-house, relying instead on acquisitions or joint ventures with entrepreneurs.
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Crucial to the sucralose picture is the precise nature of the joint venture agreement with Johnson&Johnson;
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The joint venture , officially established on Jan. 1, had been in the works for several months.
new
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These projects have accompanying newsletters and being fairly new ventures welcome feedback.
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An application for a public entertainment licence for the new venture goes before Middlesbrough Council's licensing sub-committee tomorrow.
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At the same time, Mr Schwartz will retain control over the new space venture , a business that excites him.
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A government guarantee of risky loans to new ventures makes more sense.
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Other new retail ventures include a new coffee bar and a 24-hour diner on Main and Fourth streets.
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Stowe, a New York venture capital company.
similar
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It comes after the success of a similar venture last year in Chicago.
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On the following night the sailors were joined by soldiers and marines in a similar venture .
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The eight-day 1992 Diesel in Action programme follows a highly successful similar venture last year.
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He looked for people who had invested in similar Internet ventures before, and could also bring contacts and advice.
successful
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This has proved to be a very successful venture .
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Marriage itself is not a guarantee of a successful entrepreneurial venture .
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This led in turn to the most highly successful venture in buying and selling of business aircraft the aviation industry had seen.
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Today, their successful venture is run just as they had begun: John handles the key distribution and marketing challenges.
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So successful was this venture that two further houses were opened in September.
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Any successful entrepreneurial venture starts with making sure that the entrepreneur is in the best possible mental and physical health.
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Dear old Uncle Fergus's one successful venture into the art world.
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But the burning of the sloop in the Bight was to be the only successful venture of the day on their side.
■ NOUN
business
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Has this neglect of basic business principles destroyed the credibility of all online business ventures ?
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The other difficulty is I have precious little instinct for business ventures .
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Miss Pinkney's father had been nearly bankrupted through a failed business venture with Phipps.
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Blow, one of the most powerful lobbying firms in Washington, and was involved in a number of business ventures .
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It failed; the loss on our government's business venture is around A$700 per head.
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Pike, who says his legal past is irrelevant to the business venture , has been reluctant to surrender full control.
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But a disastrous business venture has reduced him to near-ruin.
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Any new business venture takes time to establish.-Sufficient working capital to survive.
capital
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Keen on promoting venture capital , Viney owns a chain of wine bars as a sideline.
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But to take ViaCord beyond the start-up phase, Fisher this year plans to seek $ 6 million in venture capital .
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But there's still plenty of venture capital out there looking for bright new ideas.
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The Denver-based company initially raises $ 20 million in equity from several nationally prominent venture capital groups around the country.
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In terms of size, independent funds are the largest, with over 75 percent of total venture capital funds invested.
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But Conner needed venture capital to fund the development.
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It is going to take a lot more than the plethora of locally-driven modest venture capital funds to effect any worthwhile change.
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Petrus Partners, a venture capital firm, provided the bulk of the financing.
capitalist
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Importantly, these companies have been able to attract additional finance from banks and venture capitalists .
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With backing from San Diego venture capitalists Kingsbury Associates, the company began researching its camera.
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Is it backed by sophisticated venture capitalists ?
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But venture capitalists are swooping in like vultures.
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My guess would be he would take the first flight to Helsinki and listen to the venture capitalists there.
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Training programs are turning hightech, and venture capitalists are staking millions on the new approach.
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When he talked about starting a company, we discussed this with several venture capitalists to see what the usual arrangement was.
company
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Joint control is found where the parent companies must agree on decisions concerning the joint venture company.
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Morgan Stanley would own 70 percent of the joint venture company , with its partner owning 30 percent.
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It does not exist where one of the parent companies may alone decide upon a joint venture company's commercial activities.
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All its scientific equipment is leased from a venture company that specializes in providing such equipment.
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Pavlov combined his allegations with an attack on free marketeers and private enterprise joint venture companies .
partner
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It can be very helpful for external discussions, for example with bankers and with potential clients or joint venture partners .
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Tenneco and Williams were previously joint venture partners in the pipeline.
■ VERB
form
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Rhône-Poulenc and Eastman Chemical have formed a 50-50 joint venture , Primester, to manufacture cellulose acetate.
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The hi-tech plastics come from a young company with whom Upstart has formed a joint venture .
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Consult and advise. Form joint venture partners.
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Bates has formed a joint venture to provide services needed to develop deep water projects.
invest
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At ePartners, only a fraction of the Dollars 300m backing from News Corp was ever invested in actual online ventures .
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He looked for people who had invested in similar Internet ventures before, and could also bring contacts and advice.
join
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Here were the people who were now convinced the paper existed and wanted to join the venture .
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Traditional produce and seafood markets are being joined by other ventures .
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Billiton, the minerals exploration subsidiary of Shell, may join the venture .
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He suggested that Gardner join him in the venture , but the new husband had no intention of risking his life.
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Indeed when they heard that Gilsland was the objective, they might well be glad to join the venture .
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And in 1935 Fernand Braudel joined the new venture for a three-year stint in its Faculty of Arts.
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To my delight, the engineers working with me joined my new venture .
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By eight-thirty Penelope Chilston had been invited to join the venture as features editor.
launch
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The Midland Railway Centre is launching a new venture in Ripley by opening its own shop, and booking office.
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The parties will work to satisfy the closing conditions and launch the joint venture in the first quarter of 2000.
set
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Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks.
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Kodak is exploring either selling its copier unit or setting a joint venture or strategic alliance.
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The aim of the meeting will be to find out whether there is enough interest to set up the venture in Clwyd.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
joint venture
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Grove touted the Pandesic joint venture software as a turnkey solution for businesses seeking to conduct sales over the Internet.
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Some analysts also said that a joint venture with Canon is possible.
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The decision point is particularly important for joint ventures projects.
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This joint venture between George Gibson & Co.
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Under the joint venture the council will pay nothing, while profits will accrue to Biomass.
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United Distillers employs around 10,000 people worldwide and, with its joint ventures, an additional 1,500.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a real-estate venture
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Ford has invested $125 million in a joint venture to build engines in China.
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His bankruptcy was the result of several reckless business ventures.
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The group is planning to risk everything to get their next venture off the ground.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each year we endeavour to be represented in helping in one of their fund-raising ventures.
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It is difficult to formulate a standard definition of a joint venture .
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Local councillors can be quite obstructive to new ventures by farmers.
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Mattel would not disclose its investment in the new venture .
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They said the venture is being sold because the companies can import products more economically.
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Westinghouse will take a 48 percent stake in the joint venture and invest $ 2. 5 million.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
forth
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It ventured forth only to kill cattle or flatten crops, poisoning the air with its fetid breath.
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As they venture forth from parents to explore their own worlds, children must make their own discoveries.
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After breakfast I ventured forth , and was at once overwhelmed by the beauty and the scale of the buildings.
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All field-workers took weapons with them, and would venture forth to collect firewood only in large parties.
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Even pony trap revivalists feel safe to venture forth here.
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Twice on Sundays he would thus venture forth , as well as to Evensong on Wednesdays and Fridays.
further
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The Takaroa operates from Cairns, and allows the visiting diver to venture further afield.
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Some students venture further afield and choose courses in the Faculties of Arts or Social Sciences.
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Services should be provided near enough so that people do not to have to venture further than their local shops or post office.
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For those who wish to venture further afield there are two waymarked Country Walks.
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In the early days we ventured further afield than we do now, working in Suffolk, Berkshire, Wiltshire and Surrey.
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But I don't remember having ventured further than the village.
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I didn't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother.
■ NOUN
opinion
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But the difference needs to be grasped before I can venture an opinion usefully upon that.
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It's not something about which I would venture any sort of opinion .
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It would have made it easier to help you, and I venture the opinion that our servants feel well treated.
territory
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The fact that we had ventured into disputed territory meant nothing to my father.
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He was to be found lurking in the band's dressing room whenever they ventured into Mancunian territory , which was often.
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And if you venture into unknown territory , how can you avoid getting lost?
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Discussion had ventured into dangerous territory .
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A few big banks have ventured into more dangerous territory .
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The only thing that really fascinates me is venturing into unexplored territory .
world
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Gradually this hardens and the animal can again venture into a hostile world .
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Perplexities A layman venturing into the quantum world no doubt expects to encounter some fairly strange phenomena.
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He hadn't been ready to venture into the world after all, and it had possessed him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All experienced hillwalkers are well aware of the dangers of venturing on to the hills without being properly equipped and prepared.
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Another time, a photographer had ventured on to the reef that rose up from the sea at the far corner.
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But it does happen, and I venture to suggest should happen wherever there is apparently terminal decline.
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However, when practising always sail in a safe, flat water environment and never venture underneath any diving boards.
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Parents should teach youngsters to believe in themselves and to venture out and take risks.
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Sluggish gold and energy prices for most of 1995 helped explain investors' reluctance to venture into hard assets.
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The scouts would venture ahead if there was room enough to walk, and return ashen-faced.