I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beginners’/elementary/intermediate/advanced class (=teaching different levels of a subject)
▪ An advanced class might be available.
a developed/advanced nation (=one that has many industries)
▪ In the developed nations, many students go on to university.
a great/advanced age (=a very old age)
▪ My aunt died at a great age.
▪ Kirby is not alone in wanting to run his own business at an advanced age.
advance booking
▪ The cinema charges 50p a ticket for advance booking.
advance fee fraud
advance notice (also prior noticeformal) (= given before an event)
▪ We had no advance notice of the attack.
Advanced level
advanced technology
▪ The labs use advanced technology to study the function of various cells.
advance/further/promote a cause (=help to achieve an aim)
▪ He did much to advance the cause of freedom.
advance/prior warning
▪ Workers were given no advance warning of the closure.
advances/developments in technology
▪ Because of developments in technology, minicomputers can now do what mainframes did in the past.
amorous advances
▪ She resisted his amorous advances.
an advanced civilization
▪ Philosophy is a luxury of an advanced civilization.
an advanced country
▪ technologically advanced countries such as Japan
an advanced learner
▪ Mastering idioms and phrasal verbs is frequently the greatest challenge facing the advanced learner of English.
an advanced stage
▪ Negotiations are at an advanced stage.
an advanced state of sth
▪ The dead bird was in an advanced state of decay.
an advanced/modern society
▪ The Greeks formed the first advanced societies in the West.
▪ This kind of hatred and violence have no place in a modern society like ours.
an advancing army (=moving forward in order to attack)
▪ The advancing Roman army was almost upon them.
an elementary/intermediate/advanced course
▪ an advanced course in art and design
book (well) in advance
▪ There are only 20 places, so it is essential to book well in advance.
cash advance
▪ It seems so easy to get a $100 cash advance every few days at a local ATM machine.
economically developed/advanced (=modern, with many different types of industry)
▪ the economically developed countries of Western Europe
payable in advance
▪ The rent is payable in advance.
prior/advance notification
▪ I was given no prior notification.
represent a change/an advance/an increase etc
▪ This treatment represents a significant advance in the field of cancer research.
technically advanced
▪ Agriculture is becoming more and more technically advanced.
troops advance (=move forward in order to attack a place)
▪ Government troops advanced on the rebel stronghold.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ Kodak says this change is the company's biggest advance in emulsion technology for more than 50 years.
▪ Money both big advances against royalties and generous royalty rates once a record began to make a profit-were powerful inducements.
▪ The group did not take a big advance.
▪ Far from portraying the scientists as all-knowing seers, Hafner and Lyon show how their biggest advances came through serendipity.
▪ Combined with the fact that public understanding of the politics of intervention has deepened, that represents a big advance.
economic
▪ Moreover, an educated workforce is argued to be one of the important prerequisites for economic expansion and advance.
▪ Producing qualified workers is a project that gets progressively more difficult as economic development advances.
▪ There had been enormous economic advances, which had been possible only on a basis of mutual assistance.
further
▪ Q Can I get a further advance?
▪ Lincoln was not an abolitionist, advocating instead that slavery be allowed no further advances.
▪ Behind them, though, was a heavy steel lock which prevented any further advance.
▪ It is apparent from section 13 that a basic valuation is necessary to the consideration of an application for a further advance.
▪ The existence of such a valuation is a sinequanon to the grant of a further advance.
▪ But this is irrelevant to the question whether it is in relation to the grant of a further advance.
great
▪ At the same time, great advances have been made in finding out how best to use the many drugs now available.
▪ These fears were, strongest at a time when great advances in social security were coinciding with great economic progress.
▪ That great advance in the standard of living is at risk in this election.
▪ Like all great software advances, in retrospect it was obvious: the very desktop to which the knowledge worker was bound.
▪ Though both these statements were true they were not a great advance on Lucretius.
▪ This was a great advance and enabled the port to take much larger ships.
▪ The bathrooms were welcomed with delight, and standards of popular cleanliness made great advances.
important
▪ In theoretical physics, the search for logical self-consistency has always been more important in making advances than experimental results.
▪ A far more important advance for Dvorak came four years ago.
▪ This unlikely concoction was one of the more important pharmacological advances in the history of medicine, albeit for the wrong reasons.
▪ To its credit, the clock boasted two important new advances.
▪ Secondly, there have been important conceptual advances.
▪ In recent years, however, the situation has been changing significantly, and psychologists have made important advances.
▪ The paracelsian mercurials represented one of the small handful of important therapeutic advances made before the present century.
▪ The important compatibility advance will allow software to run unchanged on all Mips products regardless of supplier.
major
▪ It was named enkephalin and its discovery was a major advance in the search for new analgesics.
▪ Experts call the insecticides a major advance and say Phoenix-area residents can expect a dramatic decline in the whitefly population this fall.
▪ That is a major advance in the concept of public service of which the Government are rightly proud.
▪ The film marks a major advance in complexity in terms of both characterization and narrative structure.
▪ However, the current situation is likely to change over the next few years, as major advances in technology take place.
▪ We view skin-to-skin care as a major advance in helping parents develop a closer tie to their infant.
▪ These equations were a major advance, since they generalised Marx's formulation, and incorporated both equilibrium and proportionality.
▪ The dredger represents a major technological advance for the miners.
medical
▪ But medical advance not only enhances clinical capability, it carries with it profound ethical, legal, social and economic implications.
▪ Demand is created by medical advance itself.
▪ It was made possible by the explosion of production, of resources, food, scientific information, and medical advances.
▪ They are also encouraged to make connections between medical and scientific advances and changes in human society.
▪ Other medical advances were often the subject of rather more hesitation.
▪ Some agents of disease, too, have failed to evolve their way around medical advance, although some day they may.
▪ If they read a few textbooks they would find out that more major medical advances have depended on animal studies.
rapid
▪ His career developed as a series of rapid advances.
▪ Competition among capitalist entrepreneurs fostered these rapid advances.
▪ The other is rapid technological advance.
▪ The earliest possible leaving of cards, the earliest possible formal call, the most rapid advance of intimacy was called for.
recent
▪ Specifically, the impact of recent advances by blacks in local government is assessed.
▪ The recent advance has been driven by news at two companies, neither of which is Hologic.
▪ Thus research into colonic motor function remains a challenging and potentially rewarding area where progress has been facilitated by recent technological advances.
▪ This is a fairly recent advance having many advantages over the traditional method.
▪ And thanks to two recent advances, researchers had hopes of probing these tiny anomalies.
▪ Organisational studies Recent advances in information technology have led to important changes in the operation of offices.
scientific
▪ From the first, these universal histories represented both scientific advances and political and religious challenges.
▪ News and Views articles inform non-specialist readers about new scientific advances, sometimes in the form of a conference report.
▪ They are also encouraged to make connections between medical and scientific advances and changes in human society.
▪ As such it must rank as one of the most fundamental scientific advances of the century.
▪ What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance?
▪ The ever-increasing flow of scientific and technological advances is of little significance to a rural population living at or below subsistence level.
▪ A more immediate concern is the danger that a monumental scientific advance could be commercialised.
▪ Most of this century's scientific advances stemmed from intellectual curiosity, not a desire to patent.
significant
▪ It marked a recovery of lost ground rather than any significant advance to new territory.
▪ I remember thinking that, and may have made a significant advance toward weaning myself away from childish ways and thoughts.
▪ As the dust settles, significant advances can be seen in three areas.
▪ Such a treatment would still be a significant advance.
▪ Materials Technology Division showed significant advances over last year which are particularly gratifying given the management attention focused on this business.
▪ The only significant advance in guitar design, perse, in the last thirty years has come from Ned Steinberger.
▪ Despite significant advances in family planning, the report said, birth control had become a matter of global survival.
▪ Research processes vary between and within discipline; most really significant advances in knowledge come about through the application of several techniques.
technical
▪ The gathering and concentration of craft workers into the temples seems to have stimulated technical advances of many kinds.
▪ The essential design of a grand piano, apart from incremental technical advances, has not changed for more than a century.
▪ Important though changes in people's expectations are, the most obvious force for change in industry is technical advance.
▪ It is technical advance which makes it possible to create the world's goods with the labour of fewer and fewer people.
▪ It is technical advance also which is increasingly removing the natural advantages of countries with low labour costs.
▪ The remaining three elements are variants of benefiting from technical advances made abroad.
▪ The progress made since 1970 came about through a number of technical advances.
▪ While this step awaits technical advances, cleaner fuels for cars and lorries, such as methanol, are urged for immediate use.
technological
▪ The cost in terms of technological advance and the dissemination of fresh and stimulating ideas, is incalculable but colossal.
▪ Can the market system provide the capital goods upon which technological advance relies?
▪ However, affluence and technological advances have created new kinds of safety hazards for people who live in Western society.
▪ Every technological advance has its advantages and disadvantages.
▪ The dredger represents a major technological advance for the miners.
▪ Mergers, cutting down, restructuring, and technological advances have increased the intensity of the winds of change.
▪ The ever-increasing flow of scientific and technological advances is of little significance to a rural population living at or below subsistence level.
▪ Finally, we have seen that competition provides an environment conducive to technological advance.
■ NOUN
cash
▪ Barclaycard, for example, has an international rescue number and will arrange emergency cash advances or replacement cards.
▪ To the majority of performers, cash advances of any substance were a rarity, contracts a thing only of myth.
notice
▪ Patrons please not that a buffet can be served after the show for up to 50 people provided reasonable advance notice is given.
▪ To avoid a stampede, no advance notice was given of his appearances.
party
▪ Some advance party with orders in preparation for Isambard's reception.
▪ Our advance party had done a big job.
▪ One of Isambard's advance party, and by the cut of him a man of importance.
▪ Dawson felt as if he were the advance party for a dawn raid.
■ VERB
book
▪ The walk is suitable for all the family and places must be booked in advance.
▪ Her cruises regularly book up months in advance and almost always sell out.
▪ Most events take about two hours and are normally limited to 20 places, so booking in advance is essential.
▪ But he books all concerts in advance.
▪ The current cheapest airline fare is the £249 Apex special which must be booked in advance.
▪ Tight supplies and soaring prices led many countries to book purchases well in advance.
▪ Once again, service flats need to be booked in advance.
▪ But large telescopes are in great demand and are often booked up months in advance.
lead
▪ Its development has led to great advances in the miniaturisation of electronic components. 13.
▪ Money center banks, telephone and software issues led the advance.
▪ Properly used, it seems to me that quantitative methods can only lead to advances in our subject.
▪ Procter &038; Gamble led the advance in the Dow industrials.
▪ In the broader market, declining issues led advances 15-13 on volume of 675 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
▪ Case Corp. led the advance amid optimism the heavy-machinery manufacturer will post robust profits for the fourth quarter.
▪ Computer and software stocks led the advance, which would have been larger except for sliding prices for automakers and retailers.
make
▪ From the start, the participants decided that firm agreements should be made in advance in writing.
▪ I remember thinking that, and may have made a significant advance toward weaning myself away from childish ways and thoughts.
▪ Will we not have to make a decision in advance of what the extent of the motorway's influence has been?
▪ But it makes advances, also in the traditional relationship an artist has with a record company.
▪ Bookings must be made in advance by calling 051-920-0998.
▪ Their plans are made far in advance, based entirely on their own thinking.
▪ Most are commissioned but proposals can be made in advance to the News and Views Editor.
▪ Mine was made months in advance.
pay
▪ If you're paid in advance for something, you secure your future.
▪ Minna had paid him in advance, which no doubt had been a mistake.
▪ It was a good thing that Edward Morris had given her another order which he had insisted on paying for in advance.
▪ Paper bag puppets can be made after the show, with a $ 3 craft materials fee, paid in advance.
▪ Expect a lump sum paid in advance, either per month, or year.
▪ Some had paid in advance for months or years of service.
▪ The house had been paid in advance.
plan
▪ But it is also useful to plan formal dissemination in advance.
▪ Everything he did was planned in advance.
▪ When you want to move somewhere you plan it in advance, you prepare yourself for the change.
▪ Unlike child care considerations, which often can be planned months in advance, eldercare issues often occur without warning.
▪ It concluded that suspicion existed that the action had been planned in advance and was directed by two commands with different instructions.
▪ Special events can be planned well in advance, and the game itself becomes more of a spectacle.
▪ To avoid sitting in front of a blank piece of card and wondering what to do, you should plan your design in advance.
▪ I want you to plan that day in advance.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
advanced age/years
▪ As you probably know, Herr Sanders is a gentleman of advanced years, inclined to be a little vague.
▪ At the advanced age of 71, Charles Bronson's wizened features are returning to the big screen.
▪ Male speaker Inevitably at her advanced years, it's difficult for her to overcome.
▪ On my advanced age, I dote.
▪ She addressed her young guest with civilities suitable for a personage of advanced years and uncertain appetite.
▪ Towards the rector he was a polite listener, a concession to the man's advanced years and his calling.
▪ When talking about the elderly in this sense we are referring to people in an advanced age group of well over eighty.
advancing years/age
▪ Chances of developing cancer increase with advancing age.
▪ At your age, advancing years and all that.
▪ Joshua hoped that Malone had learnt wisdom with his advancing years.
▪ Of course, I was only displaying the ultimately cliched boomer trait, a tortured denial of my own advancing years.
▪ On her deathbed Mary Leapor reportedly expressed concern for her father's advancing age.
▪ Reasons put forth include his advancing age, the cumulative effect of thousands of hits and the decline of his offensive line.
▪ The association between advancing years and increasing rates of disability is illustrated in Figure 7.
▪ The risk of incapacitation increases with advancing years, and increases more rapidly after the age of 55.
▪ There are clear associations between advancing years and increasing disability, and this is particularly steep among the most elderly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Advances in medical science may make it possible for people to live for 150 years.
▪ Dr Martineau had written an article about advances in medicine over the last five years.
▪ Observers monitored the army's advance on the capital.
▪ The discovery marks a significant technological advance.
▪ The last 20 years have seen enormous advances in communications technology.
▪ There was a big advance in the price of gold today.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Being purely quantitative measures, they fail to illuminate qualitative advances.
▪ But it is also useful to plan formal dissemination in advance.
▪ Despite these somewhat pessimistic conclusions, the study represents an advance on earlier studies in this field of inquiry.
▪ Every yard of advance was strewn with the fallen.
▪ On the other hand, past concerns have been solved by technological advances.
▪ Reserve tickets in advance by calling the box office at 622-2823.
▪ The child is warned in advance about those behaviours that are considered inappropriate and the consequences that will follow from them.
▪ When she declined his advances, he entrusted her to a matron of a sinful house.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
far
▪ Certainly, no other sportsman's figures are so far advanced.
▪ Finally, research on kittens and infant monkeys advanced far enough to show us some reasons.
▪ Once teeth have been done the cosmetic procedure of self-betterment is already far advanced.
▪ By the end of the nineteenth century, the political side of this process was far advanced.
further
▪ George advanced further through the doorway.
▪ Some well might advance further in corporate life than the OLs.
▪ A few places further down the dale had got it at once, and then it began to advance further up towards us.
▪ Mark Pauline and Rod Brooks have advanced further than most in creating personas for machines, because the creatures are fully embodied.
▪ As winter approached, Napoleon was unable to advance further, nor could he persuade the Tsar to negotiate.
▪ The technology of the automobile industry is also, of course, much further advanced than a technology of behavior.
▪ Many of them threatened to break cameras if the crews advanced further.
more
▪ In all cases the depth of knowledge required should be more advanced than that required for Professional Examinations.
▪ It has added courses in its industrial engineering and automotive divisions that teach more advanced skills.
▪ The implication is clear: liberals are more advanced morally than conservatives.
▪ Making sounds into words, and sequencing phrases and ideas require more advanced aspects of the nervous system.
▪ More advanced students might be asked to read and explain directions.
▪ More advanced services include stock and mutual fund brokerage or trading services, currency trading, and credit or debit card management.
▪ Under less sanguine circumstances, loans are advanced more cautiously.
▪ I wish my child would read different, better, more advanced books.
most
▪ The Irkutsk north-south project is the most advanced.
▪ Of the three sectors, applications in energy appeared to be the most advanced and in agriculture the least.
▪ Their written language was the most advanced of the pre-Columbian scripts, and their astronomical knowledge beyond compare.
▪ Nowhere else was an attempt made systematically to exterminate a whole people, using the most advanced technology of mass killing.
▪ At the time these were two of the world's most advanced designs and the subject of much secrecy within Britain.
▪ The density of optical interconnections can be much greater than even the most advanced silicon and gallium arsenide processes.
technologically
▪ It takes about a kilowatt per person to maintain a technologically advanced civilization with a high standard of living.
▪ In short, he concluded without reservation that the canals were artificial constructs of technologically advanced alien beings.
well
▪ Until the healing process is well advanced, the body forms a scab over the wound to protect it.
▪ The morning was well advanced by the time Schumacher awoke.
▪ The afternoon was well advanced: the light like gauze on the bricks and leaves, the shadows lengthening.
▪ Therefore the preparation of the case must be well advanced by the date on which proceedings must be commenced.
▪ Mineralogical analysis and microscopic examination of soil structures is well advanced.
▪ The drawback is that the white centre may well advance crushingly in the late middlegame.
■ NOUN
age
▪ Surprisingly, some recent research suggests that advancing age encourages people to eat a broader range of foods.
▪ On my advanced age, I dote.
▪ Age at first union should be advanced, at least to age 18-19 or, preferably to age 20 or beyond.
▪ Reasons put forth include his advancing age, the cumulative effect of thousands of hits and the decline of his offensive line.
agenda
▪ It can advance the school's agenda by assisting academic and personal development.
▪ Abortion is becoming a political football misrepresented by the right to raise money and advance political agendas.
▪ At issue was whether Gingrich improperly used charitable enterprises to advance his partisan agenda.
argument
▪ To be fair, the majority report does not in so many words advance the argument.
▪ While advancing all these arguments, Commander Miyo nevertheless refrained from voicing a flat rejection of the Combined Fleet plan.
▪ There was considerable applause from his listeners as he advanced his familiar protectionist argument.
▪ It was ironic, Ray thought, that his friends were now advancing their opponents' arguments.
▪ These men advanced the same arguments against Holy Trinity that conservative theologians employed against the progressive Church.
▪ I do not think this presentation advances the arguments.
▪ Representative Charles Rich of Vermont and other northern congressmen advanced much the same argument.
career
▪ This strategy will not only secure the affection of my president and my client but will also advance my career.
▪ The people at the top have the power to advance or block careers.
▪ The same year he married DeMille's adopted daughter Katherine, although his father-in-law did little to advance his career.
▪ The closer you come to mimicking the originals, the sooner you can advance your career to the next level.
▪ The keyboard player obviously cares more about advancing his or her career than the future of the band.
▪ Ambitious professors have not been unknown to take advantage of uninformed, naive students to advance their own careers.
▪ When democracy returned, the chairmanship was used to reward political services and to advance careers.
▪ Others say Gwinn has used domestic violence to advance his career.
cause
▪ Peter Greenaway has advanced the vegetarian cause no end.
▪ He advanced the cause of joyful corruption and vice.
▪ He wasn't doing it to advance the Allied cause.
▪ Both participate in war and advance its cause.
▪ However, the fact that such quasi-duties are a commonplace does not, of itself, advance the cause of animals.
▪ Events soon conspired to advance their cause.
▪ Philippa soon realized that although they welcomed the princess and cheered, their real purpose was to advance their own cause.
claim
▪ To continue to advance Rega's claims against Lauda's, as Daniele did, was inexplicable in racing terms.
▪ In the new science of mythology, Max Muller was also advancing equally confident claims.
▪ But they seldom advanced specific claims.
country
▪ Compared with most other advanced countries, you die earlier and are more prone to disability in the land of the free.
▪ Socialist victory in the advanced capitalist countries constitutes the only certain guarantee of enduring peace.
▪ We are on the move again, advancing along the winding country road with high hedges on either side.
▪ Such a process would be helped if advanced countries themselves were growing faster.
▪ But we must also take note of its growing importance in the advanced capitalist countries and the workers states.
▪ It has revealed a social nature somewhat different from that of the traditional peasantry of the advanced capitalist countries.
▪ Yet, in this case, in the advanced countries, the facts are inescapable.
development
▪ We can advance development with the bonus of decreasing our impact on climate if we have the proper energy strategy.
▪ Social interaction is necessary for advancing the development of logical-mathematical knowledge.
▪ Is there a learning task of equivalent difficulty with which adults at an advanced level of development are confronted?
▪ One experiment produced crystals of protein molecules that drug company researchers believe could advance the development of antiviral drugs.
final
▪ All that summer, they advanced toward the finals, accounts invariably citing their impeccable teamwork.
▪ Top teams then advance to a single-elimination final.
▪ The top eight shooters advance to the finals.
▪ Q.. Are you surprised the Cats won those two games last week to advance to the Final Four?
idea
▪ Next they find the power to advance their idea.
▪ You would rather spend that money to advance your ideas and make sure your business is a success.
▪ He has advanced ideas, including equal education and votes for women.
▪ The right hon. and learned Gentleman has advanced his idea of how to encourage manufacturing investment.
reason
▪ Still others - few enough in number - advance relentlessly for reasons even they find hard to fathom.
▪ Perhaps both leaders have unintentionally advanced the best reasons for passage of Prop. 198.
▪ California advances all sorts of reasons why Mr Clinton should not bother.
▪ Another stock to advance for the same reasons was General Cinema, owner of Harcourt Brace.
▪ This has, indeed, been advanced as an official reason for the enforcement of celibacy among priests.
student
▪ Like Sinclair, Tri-County is teaching more advanced skills to students who do arrive on campus better prepared.
▪ But it has not created separate, advanced courses for tech-prep students, as Sinclair has done.
▪ The stage fields provided each flight with a private airfield, thereby separating advanced and beginning students.
▪ More advanced students might be asked to read and explain directions.
▪ This change probably did more to advance students through the system than had the fifteen-minute extension.
▪ Accustomed to advanced students, Marina Derryberry feared that his lessons might be glorified baby-sitting.
▪ For more advanced students, you may prefer to use the explanations just as they are written for listening or reading practice.
system
▪ This change probably did more to advance students through the system than had the fifteen-minute extension.
▪ What was needed was an advanced, geosynchronous follow-on system to Rhyolite.
▪ For example, Unison Industries kept an advanced electronic ignition system for light aircraft off the market.
technology
▪ The advanced technologies used in drives manufacture naturally have their benefits.
▪ In 1913, advances in smelting technology led to the closing of the furnace at the Rusk prison.
▪ The technology of the automobile industry is also, of course, much further advanced than a technology of behavior.
▪ Instead, they got Richards to acknowledge that a motivated forger with advanced technology could fool even veteran photo analysts.
▪ Although the industry is rapidly introducing advanced digital communication technologies, the telephone network continues to be dependent on analog transmission.
▪ Establishing that networking systems, relying on advanced computer technology, can provide individual service to teachers and special learners. 2.
▪ This position implies that Apple must create a standard on new advanced technology.
▪ Last year the award winners were those judged to be tops in the application of advanced manufacturing technology.
theory
▪ She advanced this theory to the child psychoanalyst to whom she was delivered the next day.
▪ These moral essays advanced other theories in harmony with sentimental comedy.
▪ But Terkel's people were believable; their views were not rendered harmonious in the interests of advancing a theory.
▪ Which, of course, is what gay academics frequently argue when they advance the theory of social constructionism.
▪ As the years went on and no better idea about how one got polio was advanced, the theory took on importance.
world
▪ They were sober young men, marking school books, studying, advancing into an adult world of action and responsibility.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Computer technology is advancing very rapidly.
▪ In early 1940 the army began to advance across France.
▪ Oil stocks advanced today in heavy trading.
▪ Our knowledge of the deepest parts of the ocean has advanced considerably over the last ten years.
▪ The plane slowly advanced down the runway and then paused, ready for take-off.
▪ Villagers hid in the hills as the troops advanced.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ No such argument has been advanced in the present case, and their Lordships need say nothing about it.
▪ Only once before had they advanced past the Minnesota 31.
▪ Ten goals in nine matches since he returned from Sydney suggest that his reputation is advancing by the week.
▪ The players get paid based on how far they advance.
▪ These men advanced the same arguments against Holy Trinity that conservative theologians employed against the progressive Church.
▪ Two possible interpretations of this effect were advanced in Chapter 5.
III.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
booking
▪ Perhaps the most widely used online service is travel planning, both to research a destination and to do advance bookings.
▪ It will also repay advance bookings.
▪ Fifty guaranteed seats once a week will give the advance bookings a most healthy look.
copy
▪ One day Harry comes into the office silently holding up an advance copy of one of the professional journals.
▪ The Advocate wound up releasing advance copies of the interview to the media over Thanksgivinga week before our board meeting.
▪ By the time he did, her new book was out and her publishers had sent him an advance copy.
guard
▪ That's what he had always wanted to do, and Klepner was his advance guard.
▪ There were to be no less than 2,000 uniformed Blackshirts, marching and parading as the advance guard of revolution.
▪ But not before the advance guard had stung him 10 times.
notice
▪ Please contact your local Eagle Star branch giving as much advance notice as possible.
▪ Computerized detector modules translate those light shifts into stress units, providing advance notice of failure.
▪ Rosalind bakes her own bread and croissants and will prepare an evening meal with advance notice.
▪ Asked to deal with the unexpected, usually without must advance notice, people often react with apprehension or hostility.
▪ Nor does the Act impose a requirement of advance notice of meetings and assemblies.
▪ It is therefore advisable for the expatriate to give advance notice to the school of when places are required.
▪ Special diets are catered for with advance notice.
▪ On one occasion, with no advance notice, my salary was paid into my account seven days late.
party
▪ I had flown out to Novosibirsk with the advance party at the beginning of September.
▪ Fields was wearing a set of the new jungle fatigues and boots that the advance party had picked up for him.
▪ John Hall, from the advance party, was six inches away on my left.
payment
▪ The survey also found that 17 out of the 23 airlines capitalise interest on advance payments for aircraft being acquired.
▪ Terms of cash on delivery or advance payment should be instituted for future sales to consistently delinquent accounts.
publicity
▪ Don Peters had been pleasantly surprised to find the Prime Minister's forthright manner lived up to her advance publicity.
▪ We will have to arrange for advance publicity, set up an office and make arrangements to show prospective buyers around.
▪ The advance publicity has been stupendous, and the first issue is alleged to have sold out straight away.
reservation
▪ Groups of ten or more should make advance reservations.
▪ Admission is free but advance reservations are required.
▪ Deal with advance reservations. 7.
▪ After serving its purpose it is returned to the advance reservation section and used for additional future reservations.
▪ Advance payments can be transferred to an advance reservation deposit by using the transfer debit and credit keys. 8.
team
▪ Henkel made the change-and that resulted in an unusual problem for the advance team.
warning
▪ If we could list those we'd have advance warning of shortage problems on the assembly lines two months before they occur.
▪ Significant moments in history do not happen without some kind of advance warning.
▪ As there was little or no advance warning, those people who had paid for entertainment until 2am understandably felt short-changed.
▪ It was a pity one could not invade without giving advance warnings and following the rules: it would be a pushover.
▪ Ernest Bevin, however, was given no advance warning.
▪ However, if you are given advance warning, think about the stay and about the meals you will have to provide.
▪ Employers could provide advance warning of intended plant closures or major reorganisation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Advance bookings for the concert start today.
▪ Aid workers say the village had no advance warning of the floods.
▪ Airport visas may be obtained if forty-eight hours advance notice has been provided.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Admission to the museum and parking are free, but advance parking reservations are required.
▪ Deal with advance reservations. 7.
▪ However, Redmond and Manschreck acknowledged that they had not billed for or received any money for the advance planning.
▪ I had flown out to Novosibirsk with the advance party at the beginning of September.
▪ It will also repay advance bookings.
▪ The advance training gets the patient up and walking sooner after surgery.
▪ The aim was to give the writers the advance information they always sought and to gain interest from cinemas.