noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a peace/climate/sales etc conference
▪ an international climate conference in Sweden
harsh winter/weather/climate
▪ the harsh Canadian winters
hostile environment/climate/terrain etc
▪ a guide to surviving in even the most hostile terrain
▪ Sales increased last year despite the hostile economic environment.
humid air/climate etc
Mediterranean climate
▪ a plant normally only found in a Mediterranean climate
the Earth’s climate
▪ The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has an influence on the Earth’s climate.
the economic climate (=the general economic conditions in a country or area)
▪ In the current economic climate, a lot of people are trying to save more and spend less.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
changing
▪ It will target specifically chosen people in an effort to help them make links with the changing climate.
▪ The sea temperature gives us clues to the changing climate and the possible effects of global warming.
▪ Nevertheless, the parties did undergo some transformation as they adapted to a changing political climate.
▪ Coincident with the changing Parliamentary climate was a more positive attitude towards abolition on the part of the Labour Government.
cold
▪ I was reporting in a cold public-spending climate.
▪ Their fur made hats worn in cold climates.
▪ In general, the mountain areas of the Auvergne experience a much colder winter climate with a long period of Permanent snow.
▪ This occurs in cold climates that have heavy snowfalls during the winter.
▪ The relative importance may change, as can be seen in the increasing importance of mechanical weathering in cold and dry climates.
▪ If they're brought to a cold climate too young, that is.
▪ Or even the Niebelungenlied if he prefers magic potions and omniscience from a colder climate?
▪ As with all animals, the colder the climate the bigger the body becomes.
cultural
▪ The political and cultural climate between 1927 and 1939 has already been discussed.
▪ Violent behavior has also been part of the cultural climate over the past decade.
▪ The cultural climate was bleakly corrupt and cautiously conservative.
▪ Fashion and change Two features of the present cultural climate make this element of conviction all the more necessary.
▪ The educational systems and cultural climates in every country are so diverse that international planning would be unwise and ineffectual.
▪ If interpreted within an uncensored, pluralist cultural climate, the Socialist Realist method still embodies fine, humanist ideals.
current
▪ Funding will depend on the sale of extraneous plots for other developments, not an easy matter in the current climate.
▪ Especially today, in the current volatile climate, it is vital that leaders steer a clear and consistent course.
▪ In the current political climate, an official strike would count under Condition 17 but not an unofficial one.
▪ The current political climate in Washington does not suggest that government programs can be relied on to fill this training gap.
▪ Fifth, it offered targets, such as the minimum wage, that were impossible to defend in the current climate.
▪ Delegates in Jakarta were urged to get full value out of every penny spent, especially in the current economic climate.
▪ It is a vast undertaking at considerable cost and hence a very brave venture in the current economic climate.
▪ However it, like others, is suffering in the current recessionary climate.
different
▪ In the current period industrial relations is conducted in a very different climate from that of much of the post-war era.
▪ Besides the contrast in scale between the two cities, they also have far different political climates.
▪ Although tigers have been able to adapt to different climates and landscapes, they have not been able to live alongside people.
▪ They do exist, however, because certain breeds of cat have become adapted to different climates.
▪ Porto Santo, being smaller and lower than Madeira, has a different climate.
▪ In the spring of 1987, as I write this piece, a very different political climate prevails.
▪ It was an entirely different climate from today.
▪ In a few hours I would be flown into a different culture, a different climate, with different people.
difficult
▪ All of these should help firms in the present difficult climate.
▪ It is a remote country with difficult communications, climate and geography.
dry
▪ The molluscs have taken advantage of the iron's dry micro-climate and gathered underneath to hibernate.
▪ Advised by doctors to recuperate in a warm and dry climate, he bought a ticket to Los Angeles.
▪ It is more likely, however, that it represents a short period of dry climate when there were frequent brush fires.
▪ Those that live in dry climates have therefore found a variety of ways of avoiding water loss.
▪ The relative importance may change, as can be seen in the increasing importance of mechanical weathering in cold and dry climates.
▪ The dry climate of this region helped preserve scenes of stunning complexity.
▪ In a very dry climate the moisture content might reach as low a figure as 5 percent.
▪ This is a useful quality in any dry climate, warm or cold.
economic
▪ Net margins were 14% of turnover, a very good performance considering the very unfavourable worldwide economic climate.
▪ Creditor business continues to be affected by the poor economic climate but rating action has resulted in some improvement in Q2.
▪ It is a vast undertaking at considerable cost and hence a very brave venture in the current economic climate.
▪ Creditor business continues to be affected by the poor economic climate.
▪ The economic climate of the 1980's may give new significance to the DRAs.
▪ Undoubtedly the political and economic climate for social policy growth has chilled.
▪ Despite the strictures imposed and the tough economic climate, William Grant &038; Sons is constantly investing in the future.
favourable
▪ During the years of our research, numerous other publications were already in circulation, helping to create a favourable climate.
▪ But the policy then was not to lie low until a more favourable climate developed.
▪ The editorial matter can be biased to presenting a favourable buying climate for speculative stocks.
▪ The country experienced something of a flight of capital as investors sought alternative outlets in more favourable economic climates.
financial
▪ In both countries, optimistic expansion strategies fell victim to the harsher financial climate of the mid-1970s onwards.
▪ Whatever the financial climate, there still seemed an insatiable desire to build more office space, rentable or not.
▪ Now the financial climate is very different.
▪ In today's financial climate, that's a significant saving.
▪ The balance between additions and cuts will depend on the financial climate and the political complexion of the council.
general
▪ In addition to changes in structure and general climate there is a place for short bursts of motivational effort.
▪ Changes in the general moral climate therefore had their inevitable effect.
▪ But because of the general economic climate, you may still feel as though you must manage on a tight budget.
▪ Much will depend on the general business climate and the particular business in which the organisation operates.
▪ The cause may be a poor product or competitive pressure or the general economic climate.
global
▪ Cycling in synchrony with the supercontinents and sea levels is the global climate.
▪ ERS-1 will also measure sea temperature, contributing to studies into the role that the oceans play in determining global climate.
▪ The presence of major population centers very close to mean sea level has been much discussed in connection with global climate change.
▪ This savannah covered huge areas as the great forests of 15 million years ago decreased following global changes in climate.
▪ This enhancement of the greenhouse effect leads to increasing Earth-surface temperatures and global climate change.
▪ Removing the heat from the atmosphere will have had an effect on the global climate.
▪ No one is quite sure whether there will be more or less of them in a warmer global climate.
harsh
▪ In both countries, optimistic expansion strategies fell victim to the harsher financial climate of the mid-1970s onwards.
▪ Employees posted to areas with a harsh climate generally receive greater amounts of leave than those in less severe climates.
▪ The other vital factor for banks' profitability in today's harsh climate is cost control.
hostile
▪ No one seriously contests any more that a hostile tax climate has hurt New York's economy.
▪ Private practice is burdened by bureaucratic demands in a hostile climate.
hot
▪ Chemistry that works in cold climates does not always work in hot climates.
▪ Leetmaa suggested they may reflect a fundamentally hotter climate caused by global warming.
▪ In hot climates, the air-conditioning in reception is kept icily high to contrast with the sweaty streets.
▪ Very little produce is imported, and with the restrictions imposed by a hot climate, meals are based on indigenous ingredients.
▪ The hotter the climate or higher the altitude, the higher the protection you will need.
▪ Both trousers are cut to be loose fitting and this is a tremendous benefit for the fair skinned in hot climates.
humid
▪ This could represent a humid climate during the glacial-interglacial transition between stages 8 and 7 of the marine 18 O record.
▪ In humid climates, triticale seed had the annoying propensity of sprouting prematurely; often, while still on the parent.
▪ A very humid climate fostering tropical vegetation in a swampy and lagoonal surrounding is characteristic of this period.
intellectual
▪ The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
▪ Similarly, Labour in 1964 won because its message was in tune with the prevailing intellectual climate.
▪ Nevertheless, the intellectual climate of the Cortes of Cadiz was anti-aristocratic.
international
▪ But the international climate in which he finds himself has altered fundamentally.
▪ The importance of the international climate must also be reiterated.
▪ The international politics of climate change; 9.
mild
▪ Although he made some magnificent paintings and drawings of it he preferred a milder climate to produce his masterpieces.
▪ The glorious anomaly of a fake tropical city with a mild desert climate brought people from everywhere.
▪ Annual Repeats Annual favourites are self-seeding wildly, thanks to our milder climate, writes Barbara Abbs.
▪ Once inside, buildings are environmentally sealed off from our much-touted mild climate.
▪ Add a mild climate and miles of beaches where sea-birds swoop on their fishing grounds from lofty cliffs rising from the foam.
▪ However, if we continue to have a milder climate, it could mount a takeover bid in the garden.
▪ Blessed with a fine, mild climate almost vertical vineyards produce the region's finest, most fragrant wines.
▪ The mild climate and the many different habitats support a wide variety of birds and flowers, butterflies and moths.
moral
▪ In the present relaxed moral climate, there was always a frisky society matron willing to accommodate a discreet young man.
▪ Changes in the general moral climate therefore had their inevitable effect.
▪ A moral climate has been created in which collective responsibility has become unfashionable.
▪ Rulers do not set the moral climate of their nations except, perhaps, at the extremes.
▪ The Brotherhood provided the moral climate in which more strident cultures could flourish.
▪ Or perhaps from some different moral climate, like a war, or a revolution.
new
▪ But supporters were confident that decisive endorsement in the dioceses would create a new climate.
▪ One might hope, and even expect, that conservative reaction against the reality of meteorites would vanish in this new climate.
▪ The new economic climate of the late sixteenth century brought advantages and disadvantages so far as the funeral was concerned.
▪ To begin, we must realize that our assumptions about time may need to change in the new organizational climate.
▪ The new climate of interaction between the public and private sectors could, we hope, break new ground.
▪ The new artistic climate found Minton striving to restrain his romanticism beneath taut design.
▪ This self-dimming is something unexpected in his work, and suggests a new emotional climate.
political
▪ In the current political climate, an official strike would count under Condition 17 but not an unofficial one.
▪ For staunch opponents, there is mounting concern about a political and legal climate that more readily fosters capital punishment.
▪ The Falklands War totally changed the public and political climate.
▪ The current political climate in Washington does not suggest that government programs can be relied on to fill this training gap.
▪ In practice, this is unlikely to happen except on a small scale in the present political climate.
▪ This underclass has been isolated further by a crucial change in the political climate.
▪ But was this political climate of friendliness towards the oppressed one that lesbians and gays could afford to ignore?
▪ The political climate was also favourable.
present
▪ However, such an outcome seems highly unlikely in the present political climate.
▪ This seems politically unlikely in the present climate of the nation.
▪ The present climate is very different, however.
▪ These benefits seem even more relevant in our present climate of hurried and stressful life styles.
▪ In the present relaxed moral climate, there was always a frisky society matron willing to accommodate a discreet young man.
▪ In the present economic climate it is doubtful if many lots were actually sold.
▪ A great deal could be done, even in the present climate of opinion, and example counts for a great deal.
▪ In practice, this is unlikely to happen except on a small scale in the present political climate.
temperate
▪ Therapsid fossil distribution also suggests a temperate, moist climate at higher palaeolatitudes in Pangea.
▪ Occasionally, waterlogged conditions can occur inside burial mounds-a temperate-climate version of the Siberian phenomenon.
▪ This development is generally very slow and in temperate climates takes at least two months.
▪ Here I review these data and their implications for a temperate climate.
▪ Ostertagia is especially important in temperate climates and in subtropical regions with winter rainfall.
tropical
▪ Health hazards arise since full protective clothing is unbearable in a tropical climate, even if the poor farmers could afford it.
▪ This is my first experience of a tropical climate and everything overwhelms.
▪ The raised, open dwellings made sense in this tropical climate.
▪ After living three years in a tropical climate, I had to get some cold-weather clothes, too.
▪ Does the Land Rover petrol engine have a reputation for inadequate cooling when operated in tropical climates?
▪ A number of geomorphic studies have focused on weathering profiles developed on granite under humid tropical and subtropical climates.
warm
▪ It is suited to the warmer climates and milder winters.
▪ It must be the warm climate, they say.
▪ And although the hospitality was superb, we were relieved to move to the warmer climate of Vancouver and Vancouver Island.
▪ Advised by doctors to recuperate in a warm and dry climate, he bought a ticket to Los Angeles.
▪ All this can be enjoyed in a warm and sunny climate.
▪ The bush is now grown in other tropical areas that have a sufficiently warm, wet climate.
▪ A desert may become a wetland; a warm climate may turn cool.
■ NOUN
business
▪ Much will depend on the general business climate and the particular business in which the organisation operates.
▪ It would be a massive negative to our business climate.
▪ Advocates of tort reform say the business climate is being hurt by unmerited lawsuits and damage awards.
change
▪ Various new findings have weakened the position of the sceptics on climate change.
▪ Yet the alternative outcome of climate change is likely to be much more disruptive.
▪ The Third Assessment Report will report extensively on the issue of rapid climate change.
▪ Research in climate change is largely government-driven, mediated through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
▪ The projections build in the ability of farmers to adapt to climate change by changing crops and farming methods.
▪ And as it has had to grapple with challenges to the whole globe, such as climate change, Aids and biodiversity.
▪ Cleaning up city air is also easier than curbing output of carbon dioxide, a gas thought to cause climate change.
■ VERB
affect
▪ Then it was realised that even small changes in the sun's output affect the Earth's climate significantly.
▪ Like grapes, the quality and character of the beans is affected by climate and varying soil types in which they grow.
▪ Ways of working and locations of work are also affected by climate.
▪ Second, the amount a tree grows each year is affected by fluctuations in climate.
create
▪ But supporters were confident that decisive endorsement in the dioceses would create a new climate.
▪ The only hope of raising this money starts with creating a climate of confidence attractive to foreign investors.
▪ He was anxious, he said, to create the best possible climate for the Orange-Green talks.
▪ Improvements in hardware and software have created a climate that has encouraged experimentation and simulation.
▪ We have found that creating this climate involves a number of factors.
▪ Rather than emphasizing individual efforts, emphasis may be placed on group effort to create a climate of helpfulness.
▪ We must create a climate of mutual respect.
live
▪ Those that live in dry climates have therefore found a variety of ways of avoiding water loss.
▪ Those that live in more arid climates have acquired water-conserving techniques.
▪ We live in a climate where heat and light are essential, not luxuries.
▪ A pro-growth atmosphere, relatively low cost of living and sunny climate draw businesses in droves.
▪ So are those who live in especially beneficent climates.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
temperate climate/zone/region etc
▪ Altogether there are four similar species known from he tropics and the temperate zones.
▪ Here I review these data and their implications for a temperate climate.
▪ Its distribution ranges from the tropics to the warmer areas of the temperate zone of both hemispheres.
▪ Most aquarium plants come from tropical and subtropical areas, with a few from the warmer parts of the temperate zone.
▪ Rodomonte hardly noticed the magnificent, unearthly architecture preserved so beautifully away from the squalls of the less temperate zones.
▪ The epidemiology in subtropical areas is basically similar to that in temperate zones, except that the seasonable timing of events is different.
▪ The epidemiology, at least in temperate zones, is similar to that of Ostertagia in ruminants with seasonal hypobiosis a feature.
▪ The length of the day changes in the temperate zone with the change of seasons.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hopefully, when the financial climate gets better we'll be able to take on more workers.
▪ In today's political climate the return of communism seems impossible.
▪ Los Angeles has a warm, dry climate.
▪ Queensland has a warm tropical climate.
▪ The climate of opinion on the sensitive topic of euthanasia is changing gradually.
▪ The climate of southern Florida attracts thousands of tourists each winter.
▪ The recent floods are said to be caused by climate change in the northern hemisphere.
▪ The revelations of corruption have led to a climate of distrust in the capital.
▪ These flowers will not grow in a cold climate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And although the hospitality was superb, we were relieved to move to the warmer climate of Vancouver and Vancouver Island.
▪ And they are taught about Britain's unfailingly miserable climate.
▪ It is suited to the warmer climates and milder winters.
▪ No one seriously contests any more that a hostile tax climate has hurt New York's economy.
▪ Others behave as annuals in our climate but are true perennials in their native countries.
▪ People in rainy maritime climates call it just water, and complain when it falls from heaven.
▪ Somewhere, an air-conditioning unit throbbed softly, maintaining the climate of a cool-temperate zone.
▪ We know that in most regions there have been frequent changes of climate in the geologically immediate past.