verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
announce cuts
▪ A major engineering company has announced big job cuts.
announce your engagement (=tell people about it)
▪ The couple are expected to announce their engagement today.
announce your retirement
▪ Shortly after his defeat he announced his retirement from politics.
announce/declare your candidacy
▪ He has not yet officially announced his candidacy for the presidential election.
announce/publish details
▪ Further details of the band's tour will be announced later.
announce/unveil a plan (=officially tell people about it)
▪ The government unveiled its plans for a shake-up of the health system.
officially announced
▪ Nothing has yet been officially announced.
return/give/announce/deliver a verdict (=officially say what a verdict is)
▪ The inquest jury returned a verdict of 'unlawful killing'.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
▪ Caradon also refused to comment, but has already announced that it was involved in talks which could lead to a bid.
▪ The computer unit, called Global Information Solutions, has already announced a separate layoff of 8, 500 employees.
▪ Contractors BAe has already announced the closure of its plant in Hatfield, Herts.
▪ More layoffs also are expected, in addition to the 1, 300 already announced.
▪ We have already announced our intention to establish independent authorities for the eight national parks currently run as county council committees.
▪ Big processors such as Archer Daniels Midland have already announced they will be turning less corn into ethanol this year.
▪ A number of third parties have already announced they will be providing one-board upgrade kits to support Microsoft's specification.
▪ The Shah has already announced that he will leave the country for a holiday and for medical treatment.
also
▪ He also announced that the voting age would be lowered from 21 to 18 years.
▪ Mr Brown also announced plans to provide developing countries with cheap vaccines against childhood diseases.
▪ Roth also announced an energetic development schedule.
▪ He also announced that elections would be held on Oct. 24.
▪ The Population Council also announced it had set up a new company, Advances for Choice, to sell the drug.
▪ He also announced liberal reforms including greater press freedom and the abolition of laws governing subversion.
▪ Citicorp also announced plans to cut costs by eliminating 7, 500 jobs.
recently
▪ The Banks are fully aware of and fully supportive of the measures which we have recently announced.
▪ All of which seems a bit of a pity because Freeserve's recently announced annual results weren't too bad.
▪ The Secretary of State announced recently his intention to accelerate the introduction of an appraisal scheme for teachers.
▪ Or take a look at the 1996 Coretta Scott King Award winners announced recently.
▪ The additional 1,000 police recently announced by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will be largely devoted to beat policing.
▪ Disney recently announced that it will cut its movie production in the next year, possibly in half.
yesterday
▪ Dairy jobs to go About 400 jobs will go with the closure of two dairies, it was announced yesterday.
▪ Her appointment was announced yesterday at a lunch held in her honour at the university.
▪ Incentives were announced yesterday which analysts agreed ought to guarantee a very high level of retail demand for the shares.
▪ It also yesterday announced the acquisition of the Seal Sanctuary, in Cornwall, for £1.8 million.
▪ They announced yesterday that their treatment also eliminates the genetic defect in laboratory mice, bred with cystic fibrosis.
▪ The details of the restrictions were announced yesterday and included the traffic separation scheme around Fair Isle.
▪ A new trust has been formed with more than £100,000 in its coffers to spend on visual arts, it was announced yesterday.
■ NOUN
agreement
▪ Sanouko Kpodzro, it was announced that agreement had been reached on the composition of the new government.
▪ At the end of their meeting it was announced that an agreement had been reached to restore full consular relations.
▪ The Redmond, Wash.-based powerhouse yesterday announced an agreement to buy Aha!
▪ The two companies have also announced an agreement to co-operate on local network management technologies.
▪ Republican congressional leaders and Florida lawmakers announced an agreement Thursday to spend up to $ 300 million on Everglades restoration.
▪ Microsoft and Intel yesterday announced a cross-licensing agreement aimed at making it easy to place voice and video calls on the Internet.
▪ The Sprint venture expects to announce agreements with other manufacturers later this month.
candidacy
▪ Trudeaumania took root in February 1968, when he announced his candidacy for the Liberal leadership.
▪ Shortly after announcing his candidacy Sezer said he thought the president had too much power.
▪ Meanwhile, Even has all but publicly announced her candidacy.
▪ Since Wilder announced his candidacy in September 1991, his campaign had failed to acquire any significant momentum.
▪ Eight months later he announced his candidacy for U. S. Senate.
▪ Lech Walesa, chairman of the Solidarity trade union, had formally announced his candidacy on Sept. 17.
▪ Is that the same William McFetridge who announced your candidacy as mayor in 1955?
change
▪ By February 1986 the government had announced fifteen separate changes to the way the unemployment figures were calculated and presented.
▪ We have announced changes, including some reductions in numbers.
▪ A better strategy is to announce the changes quickly and then implement them slowly.
company
▪ His buying cooperative dropped Shaw after the company announced it would get into the retail market.
▪ Read in studio An insurance company has announced two hundred job losses.
▪ Last month, the company announced huge losses and major layoffs in the face of faltering stock prices.
▪ The company has not yet announced pricing for the service.
▪ The company previously announced worldwide sales of $ 14. 8 billion.
▪ The two companies have also announced an agreement to co-operate on local network management technologies.
▪ The company this year announced a reorganization aimed at stemming the profit decline.
deal
▪ Willkie promised to withhold any political attack, and on September 3, 1940, Roosevelt announced the deal to the public.
▪ Connect the companies that announced deals. a. Chemical Banking Corp. 1.
decision
▪ The tribunal returns and the chairman announces their decision.
▪ Clinton was said to be ready to confer with Reno in person and announce his decision as early as Friday.
▪ A judge, however, perhaps more than any other person, is accustomed to making and announcing his decisions in public.
▪ It is expected to announce its decision this afternoon.
▪ Today he announced his decision ... that men can be admitted ... but ordered that the move be postponed for two years.
▪ In announcing the decision, Clinton and senior aides claimed a major diplomatic victory for the administration.
▪ She announced her decision this morning the pronoun she points to Mrs Thatcher within the textual world itself.
engagement
▪ They announced the engagement in November 1941.
▪ After the initial excitement of announcing the engagement and setting a date, planning the event begins.
▪ A couple may begin living together or formally announce their engagement.
▪ If only he would announce his engagement!
▪ Then Shanti and Chris announced their engagement.
▪ Andrew Kean and Donna Denson announced their engagement in February.
▪ Just four weeks after Charles's ship left Portsmouth, Camilla and Andrew announced their engagement.
government
▪ The government has announced the opening of the first tender for exploration on its continental shelf.
▪ But the increasingly nasty dispute came to an abrupt end as the government announced a settlement.
▪ This was slightly less than earlier forecasts to which the Government had responded by announcing a major prison-building programme.
▪ The government had announced on Jan. 4 that military service was to be reduced from 18 to 12 months.
▪ The government has announced that culprits in the scandal will be tried by military court.
▪ An extraordinary government gazette was published announcing the confiscations.
▪ No details had yet been published of an economic recovery plan which the government had announced in January.
▪ The Government has announced a £ 50m campaign to cut heart disease and save 20,000 lives a year.
intention
▪ Partly as a result of all these changes, the government has announced its intention to equalise the State pension age.
▪ Clinton announced his intention to name Rep.
▪ The government has announced its intention to make further reductions, when circumstances allow.
▪ Clippers executive vice president Andy Roeser said the team filed the paperwork Thursday announcing their intentions.
▪ It has announced its intention not to borrow and therefore will not expose investors to levels of high gearing.
▪ They also announced their intention of redeeming the mortgage.
▪ After the election Mifsud Bonnici announced his intention to resign as Labour leader.
▪ Hans has announced his intention of fighting for as big a settlement as he can get.
loss
▪ Faced with a deepening slump, Tyneside shipbuilders Swan Hunter announced 1,400 job losses, and Jaguar cars 700 losses.
▪ Last month, the company announced huge losses and major layoffs in the face of faltering stock prices.
▪ It announced a loss of £2.8m, on a turnover of £13.5m, thanks mainly to write-downs in the depressed property market.
▪ Isetan will announce details on the loss by May, when it reports earnings for the fiscal year ending in March.
▪ The company also announced that its fourth-quarter loss was wider than expected.
▪ Read in studio An insurance company has announced two hundred job losses.
▪ The news came on the same day that the car makers Rover announced another year of losses.
minister
▪ There are many big sharks waiting for the wee Minister to announce the terms of these sales.
▪ Appointments to the Cabinet to replace other departing ministers were announced in the first week of January.
▪ And the average contribution of parents continues to fall in real terms, higher education minister Alan Howarth has announced.
▪ Patricio Carvajal, the then Defence Minister, had announced in mid-November 1989 that its records would be destroyed.
month
▪ This is due to be announced next month and is widely predicted to involve jobs losses and possible plant closures.
▪ The break between the Alley company and the academy was formally announced the following month, in July.
▪ Ron Price is to join as a non-executive this month and a further senior marketing appointment is to be announced this month.
▪ San Diego officials are encouraging the building of fiber-optic networks through the City of the Future program, announced earlier this month.
▪ This year's winner will be announced this month.
▪ Michigan is first with 3, 976 job cuts announced last month, the survey found.
▪ The shortlist will be announced this month.
official
▪ Symantec officials announced the cutbacks at a meeting for analysts and investors in New York late Tuesday.
▪ Maryland officials have announced their intent to file.
▪ County officials are expected to announce details of the plan today.
▪ Instead, park officials announced Friday, the pirates will run after women who carry trays of food.
▪ About that time, according to news reports, state corrections officials announced surprise plans to re-bid all private-prison contracts.
plan
▪ The first of the debt-reduction deals came before the Brady plan was announced and, indeed, paved the way for it.
▪ Turning to the Babel story, Dark then elaborated his plan and announced his vision of things to come.
▪ It will form the centrepiece of the government's 10-year crime plan to be announced on Monday.
▪ Only then was the plan announced.
▪ Two days after the plan was announced, Mr Resende took the newly minted package to creditors in Washington.
▪ Before the merger plan was announced in March, Blue Cross was considering giving $ 2. 4 billion to the foundation.
▪ The plan was announced after parliament had approved subsidies which will cover up to 40 percent of the costs.
▪ The plan, announced at a conference on cloning, was denounced as dangerous and immoral by the mainstream scientific community.
resignation
▪ Resignation as Solidarity chairman Walesa announced his resignation as leader of Solidarity at a meeting of its national executive on Dec. 12.
▪ Floyd Flake went to his church Sunday to announce his resignation from Congress so he could devote more time to his congregation.
▪ Mr Parker, who announced his resignation last week, unveiled pre-tax profits of £2.3m for the first six months of 1993.
▪ Under pressure, Attorney General Meese announced his resignation.
▪ Veteran politician Ezer Weizmann announced his resignation from the Knesset on Feb. 4.
▪ It was widely believed that had Mr Dempsey not announced his resignation he would have been forced to step down.
▪ Now that Kinnock has announced his resignation, a partial rapprochement between Labour and the Sun is in the air.
▪ Even after announcing his resignation, Mr Frohnmayer is besieged.
result
▪ He announced the results of a survey of 400 vets working in 600 slaughterhouses which found the average hourly rate was £25.70.
▪ Quantum announced its results after the market closed.
▪ All of which seems a bit of a pity because Freeserve's recently announced annual results weren't too bad.
▪ The company said it will announce results Jan. 25.
▪ Bull will announce its 1992 results on Thursday.
▪ Y., company said it expects to announce its results for the fourth quarter and year sometime in mid-February.
▪ On Thursday Mr Lamont will announce the results of the bitter and heated arguments over public spending.
▪ The company plans to announce complete financial results for 1995 in February.
retirement
▪ Stein, 54, announced his retirement last week after serving more than three decades in the department.
▪ Shortly after his defeat he announced his retirement from politics.
▪ After defeating Pennsylvania in a playoff game Saturday he announced his retirement, effective after the Tournament.
▪ In November he announced his retirement.
▪ He has announced his retirement from Grand Slam tournaments.
▪ Dame Janet Baker may have announced her retirement from public performance, but she still plans to make one or two recordings.
▪ Ozzie Smith announced his retirement, and there was talk of a first-ballot entry.
today
▪ Apple Computer today will announce it will present live, interactive coverage of the Grammy awards ceremony on February 28&038;.
week
▪ Evans &038; Sutherland is also expected this week to announce similar OGI-compliant graphics software aimed at the high-end graphics market.
▪ Last week, he announced he was leaving for his native Tennessee.
▪ Last week it was announced that the £4m camp is to be established at Barrettstown Castle in Co.
▪ Last week Sybase announced a $ 21 million loss and a 10 percent layoff.
▪ How do you get your day or week announced?
▪ This week Sony announced a big expansion of its Bridgend television plant.
▪ IF.com opened its telephone banking operation last week but has not announced a date for its online launch.
▪ This week Salomon announced it was moving 750 clerical jobs to lower-cost Florida.
winner
▪ As he was announced the winner to a huge cheer, he looked astonished.
▪ Finally, the captain announced the winner of the brand prize-the Old Folks' Open Trophy.
▪ A panel of young judges, to be chosen through a national competition, will announce its own winners.
■ VERB
expect
▪ He is also expected to announce tax relief for overseas donations of existing drugs by pharmaceutical companies.
▪ Details are expected to be announced next week.
▪ He is expected to announce a March poll soon, but the elections could be delayed until June.
▪ Shafer said the company is expected to announce a substantial gift next week.
▪ Results are expected to be announced in August.
▪ And long-distance carrier Sprint expects to announce similar services this summer.
▪ Cetia expects to announce a PowerPC-based graphics board and a graphic single-board computer in the second quarter.
▪ The Sprint venture expects to announce agreements with other manufacturers later this month.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A man's voice announced the departure of the L.A. bus.
▪ The Company announced profits of about $400 million.
▪ The government has announced the date of the next election.
▪ The Prime Minister has just announced there is to be a General Election next month.
▪ The Spanish government announced that it would invest over $14,000 million in the Latin American region.
▪ The winner of the award will be announced at a dinner at the Sheraton Hotel.
▪ They announced plans to close 11 factories.
▪ They announced their engagement last year, but have still not set a date for their wedding.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But prices at the pumps remained unchanged, enabling oil companies to announce record profits.
▪ He called its performance standards intolerable and announced plans to privatise it.
▪ He then sunk his head into his hand as the ensuing guilty verdicts were announced.
▪ Hutchison plans to announce an endorsement shortly before the March 12 Texas primary.