noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a teenage/youth gang
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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 )
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The money will be used to provide a youth centre.
a youth club (= for young people )
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The youth club is on Thursday nights in the village hall.
be in the first flush of passion/youth etc
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He was no longer in the first flush of youth.
callow youth
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a callow youth
juvenile/youth crime (= committed by children and teenagers )
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Police blame gangs for a third of all juvenile crime in the city.
went youth hostelling
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I went youth hostelling in the Peak District.
youth club
youth culture
youth hostel
youth hostelling
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I went youth hostelling in the Peak District.
youth/male/female unemployment (= the number of young people/men/women unemployed )
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Youth unemployment there has reached 50 percent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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There were complaints by black youths of police harassment, the sus laws merely being used as an excuse for this.
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Complaints of police harassment of black youths in Council Bluffs, Iowa, also generated tense conditions.
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In 1987 disorder occurred in Wolverhampton after a black youth died of asphyxiation while being arrested on 20 February.
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Kareem, a tall, lanky thirteen-year-old black youth has just finished a performance that brought down the house.
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The move followed a series of attacks on white teachers by a group of pro-PAC black youths calling themselves the Revolutionary Watchdogs.
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Police with the aid of a hastily organized black youth patrol, restored order.
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That black youth dying in police custody has not helped.
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Deaths from gunshot wounds have soared among black youths , while deaths from other forms of violence have remained level.
local
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Later, two local youths who called themselves Gangster Disciples were convicted.
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Supporters argue that local youths need a safe and legal place to hone their sidewalk surfing skills.
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They're all fine routes for backpacking holidays but local youth hostels or bed and breakfasts are also available.
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Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.
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Until a successful formula can be devised, local initiatives for youth are likely to continue with as much publicity as possible.
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This is expected to raise £6 million in its first year to support local and youth sport.
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The scheme helps forge partnerships between schools, local communities and youth organisations.
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You might be able to get the local youth or recreation service to help.
white
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In Burnley Wood, a mob of white youths surrounded Amit Stores, a corner shop near the working men's club.
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They were accosted by three white youths who taunted and then attacked them.
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The violence apparently escalated as white and black youths turned over a bus and began smashing shop windows.
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Gangs, particularly of white youths , formed definite nuclei for crowd and mob formations.
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A large crowd of white youths set up burning barricades and smashed windows, doors, and fences on the estate.
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He and a white friend, William Grady, had been chased into the station by white youths throwing bottles and stones.
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This would seem to invite an invidious comparison between white youth who are unemployed and their more successful black peers.
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Has the next generation of unemployed white youth followed in the footsteps of their elder brothers or taken a new route?
■ NOUN
club
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They are generally based in youth clubs and centres, and work on a variety of projects including those for the unemployed.
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The publication also is distributed to youth clubs , clinics, school libraries, drug treatment centers and churches across the country.
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Once, when he was the centre of attention at the youth club I saw him do it again.
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Huh, bet I've done everything he's done, with Ange Dolittle behind the youth club .
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Bowling Suppers: Office Parties, youth clubs etc.
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Gray ought to have been cancelling his youth club , which he usually held on a Thursday evening.
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Councils can use similar powers to check on drivers' backgrounds that are available for people applying to run youth clubs .
crime
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These predictions have yet to materialise, and youth crime rates have been on the decline for several years.
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Anyone wishing to tackle crime rates must pay enormous attention to youth crime because of its sheer scale.
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Painfully little has been done specifically to tackle car crime , which is a major aspect of youth crime.
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There is a tidal wave of youth crime , and the Government have not begun to answer it.
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They blame youth crime on unemployment and lack of respect for the law.
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Voice over Joyriding is the youth crime of the 90s.
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There is a national crisis of youth crime , but the Bill does not deal with its roots.
culture
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Similarly, cultural and population dynamics have meant that there is now a major youth culture , with its associated markets.
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Pop music and its link with youth culture should be an important field of study in media education.
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There has been a national style revolution in Britain which has influenced and been influenced by the youth culture of football spectatorship.
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Doreen Massey explains: The spatial openness of youth cultures in many if not all parts of the world is clear.
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Evidence for such qualities might come from other areas of youth culture .
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The long, hot summer of 1976 saw the rise of an extraordinary new youth culture , the punks.
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In other words, we could look at youth culture as a way of understanding social changes taking place in society.
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But expectations had been raised, and the resulting outrage found vent in youth culture .
gang
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At nine, Pedro joined one of the youth gangs in the neighborhood.
group
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Jefferson is one of those people upon whom Church youth groups seem often to depend.
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As a boy he had quit many things-the basketball team, the Episcopal youth group and always enjoyed the experience.
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None the less Tupac headed a youth group , the New Afrikan Panthers, performing at community centres.
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But as her friends from the youth group rallied around her, she began to open up.
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Data collection is mainly by questionnaire and structured interviews with families, youth groups and problem drinkers.
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And out on the lawn, where the church youth group practices soccer, there will be legions of reporters.
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Among the agencies involved with the local authority were housing associations; voluntary groups; church groups; youth groups .
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The youth group played two school performances in the center Wednesday and yesterday.
hostel
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Passing the youth hostel , we climbed through gorse and bracken to Port Eynon Point.
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Caroline Dickinson was raped and killed July 18, 1996, in her bed at a youth hostel .
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The walls surrounding the courtyard used to protect what was once a fortress but which is now a youth hostel .
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Other unusual and seemingly bogus addresses: Thirty people registered at youth hostels .
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A week's multi-activity holiday based at a youth hostel costs around £120-£130.
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They're all fine routes for backpacking holidays but local youth hostels or bed and breakfasts are also available.
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Calling Emily, I legged it to the youth hostel two miles away.
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In the late afternoon the weather cleared and we walked back to the youth hostel .
movement
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The Phalangists look innocent enough with their little moustaches and their campfires amid the fir trees, the stuff of youth movements .
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A definite youth movement has occurred in this country.
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Something was happening amongst the youth movement that so admired him and he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
team
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The ex-Gunner is Hoddle's first appointment, taking over from another Highbury old boy Peter Nicholas as youth team coach.
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Leeds youth team are playing in Dublin tonight against Home Farm youths.
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Surely a youth team is required at all clubs.
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Still at school but has already played a few times in midfield for youth team .
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Methody winger Richard McCluskey showed great pace and balance running in for two late tries as the youth team tired.
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EX-WREXHAM youth team coach Idris Price is the new manager of Oswestry Town.
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Turner, who made his League debut on opening day, played for the youth team last week.
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Paul Hart manages the youth team at Leeds.
training
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We are continuing to deliver the youth training guarantee.
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More than 3.1 million young people have taken part in youth training since 1983.
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Student nurses, those on youth training schemes and others will also be helped.
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More than 80 percent. of those on youth training gain a qualification or a job, or enter a further education course.
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They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training .
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The truth is that the youth training guarantee is not being delivered by Devon training and enterprise council.
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Furthermore, not all youth training leads to jobs and the quality of training is very variable.
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All that has been compounded by the Government's crazy cuts in youth training , including in the construction industry.
unemployment
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And in fact there are also topics to be drawn from the elements of the story - such as youth unemployment or divorce.
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Juppe said he would soon announce measures to fight youth unemployment .
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In the mid-1970s this picture was about to change, as economic crisis produced widespread unemployment , and particularly high youth unemployment.
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Task forces, meanwhile, were directed to tackle youth unemployment .
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At first this was because of high levels of youth unemployment and latterly because of demographic trends.
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In recent years it has begun to experience high levels of adult and youth unemployment .
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Not surprisingly, therefore, with youth unemployment so high, some school-leavers with qualifications fail to find jobs.
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Thus, although youth unemployment is high, it tends to be of shorter duration than that among the older age groups.
work
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But there was no suggestion that Gray had been involved in anything improper and Jefferson continued to be involved in youth work .
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Experience in Community youth work and administration sought.
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Mr Good's interest in youth work led to the formation of a Youth Fellowship shortly after he came to the church.
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The vast majority of youth work , however, is still done by volunteers.
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He carried on doing some lorry driving alongside this part-time work , but was eventually offered a full-time contract in youth work.
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He undertook an in-service youth work qualification while working and became a fully qualified youth worker two years later.
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Jefferson came to Church youth work with very solid credentials.
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Projects in this phase included studies of housing policy, social services and welfare, youth work provision and agricultural marketing.
worker
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At the time I had a job as youth worker at a sports centre in Acton.
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For all these reasons, their fears in this respect as youth workers are based on the realities of heterosexism.
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With the qualification of students on this course as youth workers and trainers the youth policy promises fair for the future.
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I therefore inherited the dubious honour of making it available on loan to youth workers .
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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
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Trying to make up for his misspent youth.
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You can scarcely regret your misspent youth while still misspending it.
the first flush of youth/manhood
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Now aged 31, Cardus is no longer in the first flush of youth.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a church youth group
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a gang of youths on motorbikes
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Caroline had been a ballet dancer in her youth .
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Horton teaches at a school for troubled youths in San Diego.
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One of the youths pushed her against the wall and took her bag.
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She revisited all the places where she had spent her youth .
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Society seems obsessed with youth and wealth.
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The police had questioned three youths, but then later released them without charge.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I studied it in my youth , and my love of Faure, Debussy and Ravel encouraged me to improve it.
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It had about it the idealism of youth .
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None the less Tupac headed a youth group, the New Afrikan Panthers, performing at community centres.
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Some youths astride shining motor-cycles had congregated outside a closed motor-cycle shop.
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There has been a corresponding shift in studies of youth and in the kind of questions asked by sociologists.
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This was one of the great questions of my youth in the 60s, of course.
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This was the first independent radio station in the republic and was to be run by the students' official youth organization.