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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

base

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a broad base

▪ The course is designed to provide a broad base for students looking to work in IT.

a client base (=all the people, companies etc that are your clients)

▪ The company quickly expanded its client base in the US.

a data base/data bank (=a large amount of data stored in a computer system)

▪ We can compare insurance prices from different companies on the database.

a firm base

▪ Mount the tanks side by side on a firm base.

an army base/camp

▪ the local army base

base a judgment on sth (=make a judgment because of something )

▪ His judgment was based on bad information.

base an estimate on sth (=use something as information to give an estimate)

▪ The government based its estimate on data from the 2008 census.

base metal

base rate

basic/base salary (=the basic amount that someone is paid)

▪ You get a basic salary, and then other benefits on top.

be based on a misunderstanding (=happen or be done as a result of a misunderstanding)

▪ The whole argument was based on a misunderstanding.

be based on a principle

▪ A good education ought to be based on multicultural principles.

be based on an analysis of sth

▪ This work has been based entirely on an analysis of large mammals.

be based on common sense

▪ The job doesn't require much training because it's based on common sense.

be based on criteria

▪ Normal child development is based upon certain criteria.

be based on the belief that …

▪ Our policies must be based on the belief that the planet’s resources are finite.

be based on/rest on an assumption

▪ Our plans were based on the assumption that everyone would be willing to help.

broadly based

▪ a broadly based school curriculum

fan base (=the people who are someone’s biggest fans)

▪ The band has built up a loyal fan base over the years.

first base

▪ He plays first base for the Red Sox.

home base

▪ The band’s home base is Seattle.

loosely based on

▪ The film is loosely based on the novel.

power base

▪ the party’s traditional power base

second base

the base rateBritish English (= the rate of interest set by the Bank of England, on which all British banks base their charges)

▪ The interest charged on your overdraft changes in line with bank base rates.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

decision

▪ There is now a much greater difference between the probabilities of success and failure on which to base a decision.

▪ To base a major policy decision on shoddy science has never been acceptable.

▪ Similarly the redundancy package was geared to match the relocation package so that staff would not base their decision on financial matters.

▪ As computer systems make information more timely, top management can base its decisions on actual data rather than personal observation.

▪ But it's much easier these days to get the best information on which to base your decision.

▪ Large numbers of executives base their business decisions solely on opinions.

▪ There is not a lot of case law for the adjudication officers to base their decisions on.

▪ Either way, the executive and family will have gained more facts on which to base their decision.

information

▪ They give managers additional information on which to base their judgements, but they do not provide a company control system.

▪ But it's much easier these days to get the best information on which to base your decision.

▪ We note the direction of travel and radio the information back to base.

▪ Do we have sufficient information on which to base change?

▪ They must find the information for you to base your strategy on.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

broadly-based

get to/reach first base

▪ Compared to this little middle-aged lot, we didn't get to first base!

oil-based/carbon-based/computer-based etc

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Critics of the market economy base their position on the following points.

▪ It is too early, he says, to base any firm recommendations on the work so far.

▪ Most airlines base their waiting lists on the cost of the individual ticket.

▪ The problem with any such guesstimate is that, of course, we are basing our calculations on a statistical sample of one.

▪ The West could do worse than to base its policy towards the Middle East on that aspiration.

▪ What are you basing this on?

II.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

broad

▪ The broader property base which we would introduce would mean a fairer distribution of the burden.

▪ Also, try to sell a broader base of products.

▪ We had previously gone for a somewhat broader base to the business for perfectly good reasons.

economic

▪ The remainder of those first franchises divided into second and third tiers according to the economic base provided by the populations they served.

▪ Many like Kumar originally went abroad because there was no dynamic economic base in their own country.

▪ The Barringtons vividly demonstrate that the village as an occupational community declined because the underlying economic base could no longer support it.

▪ The unemployment picture reflects these changes in the economic base.

▪ There is a lot of inertia in the landscape with places persisting even after their former economic base has disappeared.

▪ The new policy would seek to reverse the pattern of out-migration while strengthening the economic base of inner-city areas.

▪ Changes in the economic base of society determine shifts in the political and legal superstructure.

▪ Such a thin economic base could support only a limited population, in fact even less than the county actually held.

firm

▪ A shift in the weather pattern, bringing low pressure systems across the Alps in December laid down a firm base.

▪ They need to have a firm local base.

▪ He will have to work himself into the job and build a firm political base.

▪ Jacobitism as a movement was as yet too incoherent and badly organised, and lacked a firm social base.

▪ Your main efforts should now focus on establishing a firm home base.

▪ There is a sort of secret cave under the far bank which must be filled before a firm base can be established.

▪ The capitalist tenant, the concessionaire and so forth will similarly have a firm base in the growing economically petty-bourgeois element.

▪ That hope rests on a firm base.

industrial

▪ It faced hostility from Labour leaders, and never succeeded in gaining an electoral or industrial base.

▪ Our industrial base proved decisive in the conflict.

▪ Some people felt that what West Belfast needs is the development of an industrial base rather than the current proliferation of shopping centres.

▪ As fire power was exported abroad, an industrial base was solidified at home.

▪ Genuinely skilled workers in this country are simply too scarce for the sort of industrial base we want to create.

▪ They must be able to plan adequately for sufficient waste management capacity to serve their industrial base.

▪ They are also restricting access to their markets, which will minimise the economic dislocation and the ultimate loss of industrial base.

▪ We could have preserved our industrial base.

large

▪ A firm in Maidenhead designed an hydraulically operated bar stool with a large base housing a compressed air tank.

▪ What the manufacturer / retailer needs is a larger supplier base in order to be more competitive.

▪ We have a very large fixed asset base of £5 billion, producing £3 billion of sales.

▪ But, the base had much less utility than the larger base built by the Marines at Camp Pendleton.

▪ It was Lloyd George pirouetting on the large base of the Conservative Party.

▪ Special Rules Snotling Bases Snotlings are so small that they are modelled in multiples on a single large base.

▪ Down by way of Lisburn, the town with the large army base and Northern Ireland army headquarters.

▪ Nearly everything else follows the ground plan of the later, and much larger, colony base station.

main

▪ Q29 Examine the main dimensions or bases which a marketing manager might use to segment his market.

▪ It takes San Francisco marriage certificates for 1980 as its main data base.

▪ By 1839 it was under the control of Playne and Smith, whose main base was Dunkirk Mill.

▪ Enlistedmen control the main military base, where the army's weapons are stored.

▪ The scheme is applicable whether or not the school in question is the student's main base.

▪ It is his main base, and where the news will be.

manufacturing

▪ You can't afford the service industries unless you've got a good manufacturing base.

▪ Detectives believe they were about to be shipped to the manufacturing base in a spare room of the house in Highgate.

▪ We are losing all the supporting network of training, research, development and suppliers which keeps the manufacturing base in being.

▪ In particular, there has been a rapid erosion of Britain's manufacturing base.

▪ Therefore, will he use all the influence of his Department to expand the shrinking manufacturing base of Britain?

▪ The decline in Britain's manufacturing base was indisputable, though the causes were open to scholarly debate.

military

▪ It served as a military base for a foreign power still fighting to subdue the remainder of the country.

▪ At one military base, one housing area had no sidewalks.

▪ This could make lonely Shemya themost controversial military base on the planet.

naval

▪ When a naval base or arms factory is closed down, people move away to find jobs.

▪ Proponents for moving Lindbergh to Miramar contend that the 24, 000-acre Naval base contains a much better safety zone.

▪ These include a naval base, a composite air unit, a growing communications, intelligence collection, and logistics support infrastructure.

▪ The harbor of the naval base seethed with tremendous activity.

▪ Veronica Froman, who oversees all the naval installations in the two states, including the five naval bases in San Diego.

▪ The Sea Cadets had a summer camp in the naval base at Aultbea with good facilities.

▪ They realised the strategic importance of the site and used it as a naval base and trading post.

political

▪ They will also be concerned with more immediate issues involving the well-being of the party or other organization providing their political base.

▪ Each would have spent more time churning up enthusiasm within his political base.

▪ He will have to work himself into the job and build a firm political base.

▪ Netanyahu faces a major challenge from what, until now, had been his political base.

▪ After that, any chief minister daring to build his own political base stood in danger of being turned out.

▪ Rules have yet to be written; traditions have yet to be established. Political power bases are initially fluid and unstable.

▪ He said his only political base was Indira Gandhi.

▪ According to this approach, because local governments have their own political bases, they are always potential rivals to the centre.

solid

▪ They have spent ten years perfecting their own blend of rhythm and blues and building up a solid base in the region.

▪ It will no longer act as a spring but at least it will give the cabin a more solid base.

▪ Shamrock cup and saucer by Beleek Bestlite 31170 solid brass lamp base with dark green enamelled shade.

▪ Second, economic expansion and diversification have provided a solid fiscal base for local government.

▪ These initiatives are expected to produce a solid sales base for future development and an improving profit picture.

▪ Reagan kept a solid base of conservatives by holding fast to his principles.

▪ John knew he could manage - he hadn't borrowed much money and he had a solid regular customer base.

▪ The surface was soggy, but there was a solid base underneath.

strong

▪ This means they must be mounted on a strong flat base on a good floor - not bouncy floorboards.

▪ Beyond its business district, the community has a strong residential base that includes a sizable percentage of retirees.

▪ The department has a strong research base reflecting commitment to clinical nursing and the utilisation of research.

▪ Andy Davis, with a strong departmental power base in marketing, had ceased to argue so strongly for diversification.

▪ When you start with reading for enjoyment then proceed to write that is the strongest base.

▪ Tradition, then, becomes a strong power base from which to employ a defensive strategy to resist change.

▪ Since then, with the help of a strong export base Vauxhall's complex at Ellesmere Port hasn't looked back.

▪ To accomplish such actions will require a strong consultant power base and political access to senior executives.

■ NOUN

air

▪ Clinton said as rain pounded down at the air base, where he landed.

▪ Then I went to work at the Alameda naval air base, as a machinist's helper.

▪ They had an air base there where the Mr Force landed the C-130s and so forth.

▪ Their targets were the air bases.

customer

▪ Again, 3i differs here in that 35% of all the money it invests goes to its existing customer base.

▪ The customer base was considerably strengthened and a variety of new products launched.

▪ Are there other untapped demographics you can identify to build an additional customer base?

▪ This information is supplemented by a wealth of subscriber-supplied data from a wide-ranging customer base.

▪ Independent grocery stores have used Nordstrom-style personal service for years to maintain loyal customer bases.

▪ Pieper is quite frank about buying customer base, the result he anticipates from these other joint ventures.

▪ And the unhappy customer base stayed loyal in enormous numbers so that the company is now reaping the benefit.

home

▪ At the home bases of Viking raiding parties?

▪ Every day students choose a desk to serve as their home base and fill it with their supplies.

▪ Besides, away from their home base, knights were useless on their own.

▪ A relationship will have one of two home bases, Dym says: contraction and betrayal, or resolution.

▪ Evening is a time for partying and meeting new people away from your home base.

▪ The carrier operates mostly out of its home base in Minneapolis, and from Detroit and Memphis, Tenn.

▪ One refers to the page that appears when you start your browser and acts as your home base for exploring the Web.

knowledge

▪ This project will attempt to show that when firms are experiencing this dynamic competition they will respond by augmenting their knowledge base.

▪ The knowledge base, on the other hand, contains all of the information that is specific to a particular application.

▪ An appropriate selection of firms will be made whose knowledge base is currently threatened by new technology or a novel design configuration.

▪ Typically an expert system consists of a piece of software called an inference engine and another piece called a knowledge base.

▪ A training shell is a generalised tutorial system which can operate with a variety of knowledge bases.

▪ As the flow of information was fixed, data structures could be tailored to the specific knowledge bases using them.

▪ We may be undergoing a rapid rate of change in our knowledge base now, and that may be hard to assimilate.

▪ Hence, there is a need to use some automated technique for rigorously incorporating new knowledge into the existing knowledge base.

power

▪ But middle-class flight destroys a school system because when middle-class parents flee, so does the power base.

▪ As a result, Shas's power base and electoral support have been garnered from the traditional strongholds of the Likud.

▪ Successful application of these strategies can, in turn, build additional power bases of reputation and professional credibility.

▪ Expertise Expertise is a major power base.

▪ Both groups had d power base of expertise.

▪ All these power bases depend on perceptions.

▪ Political power bases are initially fluid and unstable.

rate

▪ Interest will be charged at the rate of 1 percent above the Bank base rate prevailing for the relevant period.

▪ Money markets fear a half point base rate rise on a Tory defeat.

▪ Their money is largely from wholesale sources so interest rates are uncompetitive during times of high base rates.

▪ We would levy the charge at 1 percent above the Bank base rate prevailing for the relevant period.

▪ Assume the current base rate is 10%.

▪ Mortgage rates are still at around 9.25 percent, which is now 2.25 percent above the bank base rate.

▪ Seventy percent then thought bank base rates would either fall or plateau.

▪ The Bank in this case endorses the change by bringing its intervention rates in line with the new base rate.

tax

▪ Translated into today's idiom, the more that local government can rely upon its own tax base, the better.

▪ If the economy is managed properly it can benefit us all with some impressive growth in jobs and tax base.

▪ Second, that in general this means reducing the value of allowances and broadening the tax base rather than increasing marginal tax rates.

▪ The corporate income tax base was broadened while the tax rate was reduced.

▪ The tax base should be widely and fairly evenly dispersed. 2.

▪ Instead, we looked at annexing a tax base.

▪ From the revenue side the solution adopted was to change both tax bases and tax rates.

▪ And local officials liked it because it promised to enlarge the tax base and revitalize declining downtown areas.

■ VERB

broaden

▪ Cica is designed to broaden its business base by creating a franchise within the 13-30 year old bracket.

▪ Or will it broaden its base and agree to enlargement?

▪ His partnership strengthened the Balbirnie team in shareholding terms, broadening its equity base.

▪ Another advertising agency, Future Image, has broadened the base of its activities with an extension into design and print.

▪ His best work is done far in advance, and he is intent on broadening his base.

▪ Second, that in general this means reducing the value of allowances and broadening the tax base rather than increasing marginal tax rates.

▪ It served to broaden our shareholder base significantly.

▪ Instead they are interested in building on a range of other products, thus broadening their base.

build

▪ Now we hope to build a data base to analyse why one last is more successful than another.

▪ Successful application of these strategies can, in turn, build additional power bases of reputation and professional credibility.

▪ Reformist government ministers used the press revelations to support their claims that Khasbulatov was building up a power base.

▪ Thus he failed to build a base in the bureaucracy for the policy.

▪ Nor has it made building up the industrial base an objective.

▪ There are two ways to do this -- build an asset base internally or go out and buy one.

▪ He will have to work himself into the job and build a firm political base.

▪ The second power strategies category, using social networks, builds off the power bases of political access and staff support.

cover

▪ Stacked humbuckers are one solution but Chandler's Firebird pickups cover all the bases equally well, while sounding refreshingly individual.

▪ I am fully aware that setting guidelines is a tough business and that covering all bases is impossible.

▪ Another sure way to recognize that you have covered all bases is your own sense of expertness.

▪ As with many things, - at the bottom. Cover the base of the tank with gravel.

▪ The ironwork has hearts, stars of David and crosses, covering as many bases as possible.

▪ Use to cover the base and the lid of the sarcophagus, easing into the corners and hollow.

▪ Start by covering the base of the tank as fully as possible with undergravel filter plates.

establish

▪ Your main efforts should now focus on establishing a firm home base.

▪ The offshore petroleum industry training organisation has now established a data base to provide details of the courses attended.

▪ The new data or new findings from the research should be integrated into the established theory base.

▪ Liebermann, so Vincent had heard, had once established his base there for quite a while.

lay

▪ A shift in the weather pattern, bringing low pressure systems across the Alps in December laid down a firm base.

▪ Below all these strata lay the immemorial peasant base of straight barter and the still-important tax in kind.

▪ Wreaths were laid at the base of a marble memorial.

provide

▪ The group had reached a stage which provided a sound base for selective expansion.

▪ Next wind some tape through the slots and around the core to provide a base for the pickup windings.

▪ The Children Act provides a structure for working within them; but it does not provide a base for practice.

▪ And sand will provide a stable base providing rainwater can not reach it.

▪ The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes.

▪ Some micro-organisms began to manufacture their own nourishment and at the same time provide a food-chain base for all other emerging creatures.

▪ Jointly valued at £5m, Graseby believes they should provide a good base for improved performance in this area.

reach

▪ A col was reached at the ridge base and we ate.

▪ In a town like Manila, nobody reaches first base without connections.

▪ Both these and the other attractions can be easily reached from our bases in Kissimmee and Orlando.

▪ In the four games, Bordick went 4-for-10, reaching base four other times on walks.

▪ With his head and shoulders inside the trap, he reached to the base.

▪ Finally, after a desert journey of Lawrencian proportions - or so it seemed - we reached the base of Ingólfshöfdi.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

broadly-based

cover (all) the bases

▪ Stacked humbuckers are one solution but Chandler's Firebird pickups cover all the bases equally well, while sounding refreshingly individual.

get to/reach first base

▪ Compared to this little middle-aged lot, we didn't get to first base!

lay the foundations/groundwork/base

▪ Because Save the Children want to lay the foundations for a better future.

▪ He laid the foundations by cutting one percent off interest rates, scrapping special car tax, and boosting the housing industry.

▪ He said he hoped they had laid the foundations for peace - but admitted obstacles could lie ahead.

▪ One of my officials chairs the experts committee that laid the groundwork for this achievement.

▪ Progress in primary schools has laid the foundations for the drive to raise standards in secondary schools, announced last month.

▪ The defense Monday seemed to lay the groundwork for an argument about damages.

▪ Then the elite persuaded the newly elected mayor to appoint a committee to lay the groundwork for redevelopment.

▪ Will took advantage of this opportunity to lay the groundwork for his epitaph.

oil-based/carbon-based/computer-based etc

touch base (with sb)

▪ I just wanted to touch base with you.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ a black vase with a round base

▪ a naval base

▪ Both French and Spanish come from a Latin base.

▪ Cuba was seen as a base for Communist activity throughout Latin America.

▪ Microsoft's base is in Redmond, Washington.

▪ Put a liquid fertilizer around the base of each plant.

▪ The base of the column was cracked.

▪ The lamp has a square base.

▪ You should paint the outside walls with an oil base.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ And he has emerged from the base of a bridge to warn city officials that it was about to collapse.

▪ He directs us to a good campsite a half mile down the beach at the base of a fresh-water estuary.

▪ This decision is likely to be influenced by the age and tax base cost of the company's plant.

▪ Where that popular base does not exist such laws are only imposed on the population with great difficulty, if at all.

III.adjective