YOUTH


Meaning of YOUTH in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a teenage/youth gang

At age nine, Pedro joined one of the youth gangs in his neighborhood, just to survive.

a youth centre (= where young people can go to meet and take part in activities )

The money will be used to provide a youth centre.

a youth club (= for young people )

The youth club is on Thursday nights in the village hall.

be in the first flush of passion/youth etc

He was no longer in the first flush of youth.

callow youth

a callow youth

juvenile/youth crime (= committed by children and teenagers )

Police blame gangs for a third of all juvenile crime in the city.

went youth hostelling

I went youth hostelling in the Peak District.

youth club

youth culture

youth hostel

youth hostelling

I went youth hostelling in the Peak District.

youth/male/female unemployment (= the number of young people/men/women unemployed )

Youth unemployment there has reached 50 percent.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

black

There were complaints by black youths of police harassment, the sus laws merely being used as an excuse for this.

Complaints of police harassment of black youths in Council Bluffs, Iowa, also generated tense conditions.

In 1987 disorder occurred in Wolverhampton after a black youth died of asphyxiation while being arrested on 20 February.

Kareem, a tall, lanky thirteen-year-old black youth has just finished a performance that brought down the house.

The move followed a series of attacks on white teachers by a group of pro-PAC black youths calling themselves the Revolutionary Watchdogs.

Police with the aid of a hastily organized black youth patrol, restored order.

That black youth dying in police custody has not helped.

Deaths from gunshot wounds have soared among black youths , while deaths from other forms of violence have remained level.

local

Later, two local youths who called themselves Gangster Disciples were convicted.

Supporters argue that local youths need a safe and legal place to hone their sidewalk surfing skills.

They're all fine routes for backpacking holidays but local youth hostels or bed and breakfasts are also available.

Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.

Until a successful formula can be devised, local initiatives for youth are likely to continue with as much publicity as possible.

This is expected to raise £6 million in its first year to support local and youth sport.

The scheme helps forge partnerships between schools, local communities and youth organisations.

You might be able to get the local youth or recreation service to help.

white

In Burnley Wood, a mob of white youths surrounded Amit Stores, a corner shop near the working men's club.

They were accosted by three white youths who taunted and then attacked them.

The violence apparently escalated as white and black youths turned over a bus and began smashing shop windows.

Gangs, particularly of white youths , formed definite nuclei for crowd and mob formations.

A large crowd of white youths set up burning barricades and smashed windows, doors, and fences on the estate.

He and a white friend, William Grady, had been chased into the station by white youths throwing bottles and stones.

This would seem to invite an invidious comparison between white youth who are unemployed and their more successful black peers.

Has the next generation of unemployed white youth followed in the footsteps of their elder brothers or taken a new route?

■ NOUN

club

They are generally based in youth clubs and centres, and work on a variety of projects including those for the unemployed.

The publication also is distributed to youth clubs , clinics, school libraries, drug treatment centers and churches across the country.

Once, when he was the centre of attention at the youth club I saw him do it again.

Huh, bet I've done everything he's done, with Ange Dolittle behind the youth club .

Bowling Suppers: Office Parties, youth clubs etc.

Gray ought to have been cancelling his youth club , which he usually held on a Thursday evening.

Councils can use similar powers to check on drivers' backgrounds that are available for people applying to run youth clubs .

crime

These predictions have yet to materialise, and youth crime rates have been on the decline for several years.

Anyone wishing to tackle crime rates must pay enormous attention to youth crime because of its sheer scale.

Painfully little has been done specifically to tackle car crime , which is a major aspect of youth crime.

There is a tidal wave of youth crime , and the Government have not begun to answer it.

They blame youth crime on unemployment and lack of respect for the law.

Voice over Joyriding is the youth crime of the 90s.

There is a national crisis of youth crime , but the Bill does not deal with its roots.

culture

Similarly, cultural and population dynamics have meant that there is now a major youth culture , with its associated markets.

Pop music and its link with youth culture should be an important field of study in media education.

There has been a national style revolution in Britain which has influenced and been influenced by the youth culture of football spectatorship.

Doreen Massey explains: The spatial openness of youth cultures in many if not all parts of the world is clear.

Evidence for such qualities might come from other areas of youth culture .

The long, hot summer of 1976 saw the rise of an extraordinary new youth culture , the punks.

In other words, we could look at youth culture as a way of understanding social changes taking place in society.

But expectations had been raised, and the resulting outrage found vent in youth culture .

gang

At nine, Pedro joined one of the youth gangs in the neighborhood.

group

Jefferson is one of those people upon whom Church youth groups seem often to depend.

As a boy he had quit many things-the basketball team, the Episcopal youth group and always enjoyed the experience.

None the less Tupac headed a youth group , the New Afrikan Panthers, performing at community centres.

But as her friends from the youth group rallied around her, she began to open up.

Data collection is mainly by questionnaire and structured interviews with families, youth groups and problem drinkers.

And out on the lawn, where the church youth group practices soccer, there will be legions of reporters.

Among the agencies involved with the local authority were housing associations; voluntary groups; church groups; youth groups .

The youth group played two school performances in the center Wednesday and yesterday.

hostel

Passing the youth hostel , we climbed through gorse and bracken to Port Eynon Point.

Caroline Dickinson was raped and killed July 18, 1996, in her bed at a youth hostel .

The walls surrounding the courtyard used to protect what was once a fortress but which is now a youth hostel .

Other unusual and seemingly bogus addresses: Thirty people registered at youth hostels .

A week's multi-activity holiday based at a youth hostel costs around £120-£130.

They're all fine routes for backpacking holidays but local youth hostels or bed and breakfasts are also available.

Calling Emily, I legged it to the youth hostel two miles away.

In the late afternoon the weather cleared and we walked back to the youth hostel .

movement

The Phalangists look innocent enough with their little moustaches and their campfires amid the fir trees, the stuff of youth movements .

A definite youth movement has occurred in this country.

Something was happening amongst the youth movement that so admired him and he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

team

The ex-Gunner is Hoddle's first appointment, taking over from another Highbury old boy Peter Nicholas as youth team coach.

Leeds youth team are playing in Dublin tonight against Home Farm youths.

Surely a youth team is required at all clubs.

Still at school but has already played a few times in midfield for youth team .

Methody winger Richard McCluskey showed great pace and balance running in for two late tries as the youth team tired.

EX-WREXHAM youth team coach Idris Price is the new manager of Oswestry Town.

Turner, who made his League debut on opening day, played for the youth team last week.

Paul Hart manages the youth team at Leeds.

training

We are continuing to deliver the youth training guarantee.

More than 3.1 million young people have taken part in youth training since 1983.

Student nurses, those on youth training schemes and others will also be helped.

More than 80 percent. of those on youth training gain a qualification or a job, or enter a further education course.

They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training .

The truth is that the youth training guarantee is not being delivered by Devon training and enterprise council.

Furthermore, not all youth training leads to jobs and the quality of training is very variable.

All that has been compounded by the Government's crazy cuts in youth training , including in the construction industry.

unemployment

And in fact there are also topics to be drawn from the elements of the story - such as youth unemployment or divorce.

Juppe said he would soon announce measures to fight youth unemployment .

In the mid-1970s this picture was about to change, as economic crisis produced widespread unemployment , and particularly high youth unemployment.

Task forces, meanwhile, were directed to tackle youth unemployment .

At first this was because of high levels of youth unemployment and latterly because of demographic trends.

In recent years it has begun to experience high levels of adult and youth unemployment .

Not surprisingly, therefore, with youth unemployment so high, some school-leavers with qualifications fail to find jobs.

Thus, although youth unemployment is high, it tends to be of shorter duration than that among the older age groups.

work

But there was no suggestion that Gray had been involved in anything improper and Jefferson continued to be involved in youth work .

Experience in Community youth work and administration sought.

Mr Good's interest in youth work led to the formation of a Youth Fellowship shortly after he came to the church.

The vast majority of youth work , however, is still done by volunteers.

He carried on doing some lorry driving alongside this part-time work , but was eventually offered a full-time contract in youth work.

He undertook an in-service youth work qualification while working and became a fully qualified youth worker two years later.

Jefferson came to Church youth work with very solid credentials.

Projects in this phase included studies of housing policy, social services and welfare, youth work provision and agricultural marketing.

worker

At the time I had a job as youth worker at a sports centre in Acton.

For all these reasons, their fears in this respect as youth workers are based on the realities of heterosexism.

With the qualification of students on this course as youth workers and trainers the youth policy promises fair for the future.

I therefore inherited the dubious honour of making it available on loan to youth workers .

He undertook an in-service youth work qualification while working and became a fully qualified youth worker two years later.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

misspent youth

Trying to make up for his misspent youth.

You can scarcely regret your misspent youth while still misspending it.

the first flush of youth/manhood

Now aged 31, Cardus is no longer in the first flush of youth.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a church youth group

a gang of youths on motorbikes

Caroline had been a ballet dancer in her youth .

Horton teaches at a school for troubled youths in San Diego.

One of the youths pushed her against the wall and took her bag.

She revisited all the places where she had spent her youth .

Society seems obsessed with youth and wealth.

The police had questioned three youths, but then later released them without charge.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I studied it in my youth , and my love of Faure, Debussy and Ravel encouraged me to improve it.

It had about it the idealism of youth .

None the less Tupac headed a youth group, the New Afrikan Panthers, performing at community centres.

Some youths astride shining motor-cycles had congregated outside a closed motor-cycle shop.

There has been a corresponding shift in studies of youth and in the kind of questions asked by sociologists.

This was one of the great questions of my youth in the 60s, of course.

This was the first independent radio station in the republic and was to be run by the students' official youth organization.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.