noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a means of communication (=a way of talking to someone, for example by phone, writing etc)
▪ Newspapers are still an important means of communication.
communication breakdown (=when people do not talk or are unable to talk)
▪ The misunderstanding was the result of a communication breakdown.
communication cord
communication skills (=the ability to communicate well with people)
▪ The nurse must use her communication skills to help the patient feel at ease.
communications satellite
wireless communications
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
▪ It was surmounted by a small clock and like the shelter at the Crystal Palace, was in direct telephone communication.
▪ Employers have the clearest and most direct channels of communication to enormous numbers of people.
▪ Because everyone knows they have a direct channel of communication to the Palace, their ear is sought.
▪ No grave sites to sweep, no azaleas and oranges to decorate a shrine, no direct communication with the dead.
▪ Since Sussex offered the most direct line of communication with Normandy, it received special attention.
▪ Examples include direct forms of communication, appraisal, and individualised performance related pay.
▪ There was virtually no direct communication between employers and examination boards.
▪ Sight is also used in a more direct form of communication.
effective
▪ The importance of effective nurse-patient communications can not be overemphasised.
▪ He also placed great emphasis on effective and unfettered communication.
▪ The conference on Using effective communications to build environmental credibility will take place in London on 24-25 March 1992.
▪ Or you might benefit from courses or seminars in topics such as strategic planning, writing, or effective communication.
▪ Of course communication is two-way, and the mood of the recipients is also important for effective communication.
▪ Promote effective two-way communication between employees at all levels to understand better the problems and concerns that affect productivity; 7.
▪ It had become evident that a simple and effective means of communication was required, and the radio was the next step.
▪ Even courses in effective communication rarely include instruction on media use.
electronic
▪ The third security concept is the electronic two-way communication system.
▪ Memory has gone virtual, scattered throughout the global fishnet of electronic and human communication.
▪ After all, electronic communications has many similarities to the oral technologies which pre-dated the written word.
▪ The result was an electronic communications run on the Capitol.
▪ None of these nations attempts major efforts across all of the electronic and communications fields.
▪ What averted catastrophe was the introduction of widespread electronic communications, especially for education and entertainment.
▪ Indeed, we have, in the past, returned comments to students on paper rather than via electronic communication.
▪ The electronic communication has forged bonds among staff and third-grade families that are the strongest at Logan, said Principal Francine Schaffer.
good
▪ Its size allows for good communication and good relationships.
▪ The other one thought the most important thing was good communications and rapport.
▪ Mr Spicer also plans to look into ways of encouraging better communication between police forces and local authorities.
▪ We always attempt to maintain good communications.
▪ It will be even more important for a school to have good communications with parents and the local community.
▪ You just have to have good communication between the team.
▪ Better techniques, better documentation systems, better communication between all members, better customer liaison and contracts.
▪ When you have good avenues of communication there is less chance of being surprised or ambushed by events.
internal
▪ We are also working hard to develop internal communication with staff.
▪ In the former, internal communications are often sluggish; a change mandated in March may not be implemented until November.
▪ Cruickshank countered that getting out an developing stronger internal communication has been one of his priorities.
▪ The development of internal communication systems will increase efficiency by sharing information, thus reducing waste and duplication of effort. 4.
▪ The Company recognises the importance of internal communication and consultation.
▪ There is a need for good internal communications, and an accepted policy on enquiry handling.
▪ Not only was Buckinghamshire small, its inadequate internal communications served to check the evolution of a true county town.
▪ The network functions more smoothly with better internal communication.
mass
▪ Thirdly, there are certain aspects of mass communication which are sometimes overlooked in media education.
▪ Almost every photographic aberration is now legible because of its constant recurrence in all the vehicles of visual mass communication.
▪ The mass media of communication are also important.
▪ Those who say conventions have lost their meaning in this era of presidential primaries and mass media communications miss one thing.
▪ That sort of mistake was almost inconceivable, in an age of mass communications.
▪ The second great new agent of mass communication was the radio.
▪ It is the most powerful medium for mass communication so far devised.
▪ The seminar is open to people involved in mass communication and theological training from around the world.
modern
▪ Banks, through modern communications and worldwide correspondents, provide assistance to customers engaged in international trade.
▪ Meanwhile, modern media of communication make citizens more aware than before of alternatives to their own beliefs and customs.
▪ With modern methods of communication throughout the world, our perceptions are constantly being enlarged and our attitudes and values are shifting.
▪ Globalization does bring the death of distance, through the consolidation of markets and the use of modern communications and transportation.
▪ Fortunately, in the eighties we have begun to recognise that modern communication skills go far beyond the concept of advertising.
▪ A modern ship with the most modern communications.
▪ Detail some of the features of modern hotel communication systems. 15.
▪ At the heart of any work in modern communications must be the use of the best and quickest communication systems.
open
▪ There are signs that these damaging limitations to free and open communication can be overcome.
▪ They are an asset we can safeguard through open, honest communications.
▪ It encourages open communication, and learning about processes of living in mutually beneficial ways.
▪ That structure stresses open communications and collaboration, and it humanizes the organization by eliminating the number and pictorial importance of levels.
▪ It is the antithesis of open, honest communication.
▪ Although unusual for an executive and a union official, that was essential to their desire for open communications.
▪ An open communication style, it seems, can help in the early identification and swift solution of problems.
▪ And they continued to use open communications, information sharing, and improvisation as the primary fuel for change.
personal
▪ Indeed, as chief executive Corrado Passera pointed out, Olivetti has a history of investment in the personal communications sector.
▪ Meanwhile, new technologies such as personal communications services -- a new generation of cellular phone -- also will spur demand.
▪ Television is the most personal and intimate communication medium there is.
political
▪ The only positive line of local-central political communication was the Bolshevik Party network.
▪ Regardless of how fantastic our political visions are, it is important to understand the processes of political communication that support them.
▪ With television cameras in the Chamber, new forms of political communication can take place.
▪ Our questions seek to get at communications behavior as well as feelings about political communication.
▪ The administration became the channel of political communication and interest aggregation in the absence of parties and politicians.
▪ And a fourth explanation is that voting is primarily an expression of citizenship, social solidarity, and political communication.
▪ Our model of political communication does not presuppose a view that the mass media are omnipotent.
▪ We have already examined exposure to political communication in the press, radio, and television.
poor
▪ And there was poor communication between civilian and military air controllers and the aircraft.
▪ Doble pointed to one prime example of poor communication between elected officials and constituents: the health care reform debate.
▪ Very inconsistent, much having to do with poor communication between coach and players.
▪ Part of this was certainly just poor communication.
verbal
▪ Without labels, verbal communication is impossible.
▪ Communication is the life-blood of all relationships Verbal communication between two people is the way an important relationship usually starts.
▪ Self motivation, initiative, excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail will, however, be vital.
▪ The physical part made up for the shallowness of verbal communication.
▪ Those who find verbal communication difficult will have to rely on what we call corporal communication.
▪ Written and verbal communication between the plant management and Hanes management about the results of the implementation increases.
▪ It can be very time consuming and it often depends on unstructured verbal communication because of this.
▪ The context in the eye movement study was unusual in that only verbal communication was possible.
wireless
▪ The other partners include Qualcomm, a digital wireless communication developer, and Cartell, a Michigan-based wireless equipment manufacturer.
▪ Soon after Guglielmo Marconi discovered wireless communication, dabblers throughout the world began puttering with transmitters.
▪ By managing the directory, VeriSign has data it can use to market wireless communications and other services.
▪ One possibility for overcoming shortcomings in local distribution is wireless communication technology, including microwave cellular telephony.
■ NOUN
channel
▪ Formal organisations have an explicit hierarchy in a well- defined structure; job specifications and communication channels are also well-defined.
▪ This included new forms of magnetic tapes, each of which could hold hundreds of intercepted microwave communications channels.
▪ Official communication channels may be side-stepped.
▪ A sender transmits information through a communication channel to a receiver.
▪ The purpose of the magazine is to provide a communication channel for staff throughout the company.
▪ The communication channels to senior management are more direct.
▪ All available communication channels should be used to promote these techniques.
▪ Authority is top down, and utilizes formal communication channels, usually vertical, and well-defined policies and procedures.
director
▪ They are particularly angry at the extensive use made of Brendan Bruce, the communications director sacked by Mr Patten.
▪ He returned to the White House to serve Reagan, one of his heroes, as communications director in 1985.
▪ He consulted with communications director Donald A.. Baer about inaugural themes.
▪ Buchanan was a speech writer for Nixon and communications director for Reagan.
▪ Karin Johanson, communications director for the group, said Clinton leads Dole overall by 53 percent to 42 percent.
equipment
▪ A piece of communication equipment used to enable computers to send data to and from each other.
▪ Artillery, trucks and communications equipment are still needed, the State Department official said.
▪ Mr Michael had been asked to arrange electronic sweeps of all office communication equipment in the interests of personal security.
▪ The Ottawa-based maker of computerized communications equipment cashed in on optimistic prospects for the Internet, the global computer network.
▪ The deal is part of Intel's expansion into communications equipment and reduces its reliance on its core microprocessor business.
▪ Money center banks, telephone and drug issues gained, while communications equipment, beverage and electrical equipment shares sank.
▪ The programme will oblige us to invest in higher bandwidth communication equipment for data exchange between institutions.
▪ In 1968, Jacobs and Viterbi founded Linkabit, a small company that developed communications equipment for the military.
network
▪ The four-port Multiprotocol Communications Controller attaches the 220 to synchronous communications networks and up to two adaptors can be used on each system.
▪ The logjam is occurring because of increased demand on the global communications network.
▪ Different sensory modalities, then, are used to convey different types of message, forming an enormously rich communication network.
▪ The Celestri global broadband communications network is expected to be operational by the year 2003.
▪ This is done through exercises such as the study of a communications network, and case studies.
▪ What has arisen from this activity is a clear market for data communications networks.
▪ Forces currently use different equipment with separate computer systems and communications networks.
policy
▪ But it also poses problems and dilemmas which occur in communications policy more widely.
▪ Newly formed governments seek deliberately to reverse their predecessors' communications policies.
▪ Some of them are involved in drawing up legislation which is based on the new communication policy.
▪ Inevitably the question arises: is a communication policy worth it?
▪ Various rhetorics, therefore, colour the discussion of communications policy.
▪ Under each President the relationship between the executive and the broadcasting media remained the central issue of communications policy.
▪ A national communication policy will be a key element in future planning.
problem
▪ Attention will be paid to studying communication problems in situations which are as natural as possible.
▪ The reasons for his success include his ability to determine the best strategies for winning customers and to Correct communications problems.
▪ The communication problem can be overcome in part through the use of interpreters.
▪ Other research illustrates the kinds of cross-cultural communication problem which can arise in interviews and other institutional settings.
▪ We were supposed to have a couple of sororities too, but there was a communication problem.
▪ Then there's the murderous Miyazaki, but he had communication problems of a different sort.
▪ The first major communication problem occurred on the morning of departure.
process
▪ First, a general model of the communication process is sketched.
▪ It all hangs on how we manage the communication process.
▪ He is particularly good on the communication processes of science.
▪ At every stage in the communication process we can detect the powerful influence of culture.
▪ Up to this point in our discussion we have been preoccupied with the mechanics of the communication process.
▪ A model of the exhibition communication process.
▪ Such a method introduces two serious inhibitions to the communication process.
radio
▪ Hearing no other radio communication and seeing no other aircraft to his left or right, he turned finals.
▪ Secondly, they feared that radio communication between the two forces would reveal their positions to the enemy.
▪ His work is in the field of popular education and radio communications.
▪ Ramsey said coordination, which includes radio communication among different disaster-relief groups, had improved greatly since the 1989 quake.
▪ The whole point of radio communications is the very versatility and freedom associated with its use.
▪ While on the road, the convoy remains in radio communication with its headquarters.
▪ A worldwide network of short-wave stations with directional aerials was established, fulfilling Marconi's dream of global radio communication.
▪ When Menzies opened the door to radio communication, he could have had little appreciation of one aspect of its future impact.
satellite
▪ The links may involve microwave or satellite communication in the medium to long term.
▪ They should start regional cooperative programmes to share the costs of, for instance, satellite communications.
▪ They also arrange satellite communications and provide other services for their vessels worldwide.
▪ For 1993, however, Marconi Marine, of Chelmsford, provided the first satellite communications terminal ever used on Everest.
▪ For satellite communications, geographical boundary lines are irrelevant.
▪ Added to satellite communications, this could drastically reduce the need, among other things, for commuting in cities.
▪ Like most other parks growing up around Bangalore, it will have its own power, sewage, and satellite communications systems.
service
▪ The standards will eventually form the basis of all multimedia video communications services and publishing.
▪ ISPs sell little general-interest information, but the communications services they sell are more comprehensive than those of online service providers.
▪ Computer Services Computer Services provide a comprehensive computing and data communications service to all sections of the University community.
▪ Forum participants agreed that organizational and funding issues must be resolved so that new high-speed communications services can be developed.
▪ In addition, the conference plans to assign supplementary frequencies for the steadily rising demands of mobile satellite and other mobile communication services.
▪ It has come to symbolize the difficulties in launching advanced communications services.
▪ First, alternative technological solutions and the types of communication service they may carry are being identified.
▪ The phone box itself may be simply the centre of a wider zone in which it will offer high-speed wireless communication services.
skill
▪ Self motivation, initiative, excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail will, however, be vital.
▪ Tact, diplomacy, flexibility, and communication skills are essential.
▪ Fortunately, in the eighties we have begun to recognise that modern communication skills go far beyond the concept of advertising.
▪ The Rams acted as facilitators, helping the Niners' offense work on its communication skills.
▪ Voice over A course in communication skills at the force's training college in Berkshire.
▪ Early on they amazed us with their valuable ideas and communication skills.
▪ Many doctors feel that medical students still do not receive enough training in communication skills.
▪ Adela had no communications skills when the school opened.
system
▪ In conjunction with this they produced a communications system designed to offload the text on to a host computer with the maximum possible reliability.
▪ Further, it has never been shown that group tasks require a communication system anywhere near as complicated as human language.
▪ According to Computerwoche, it will need to buy a standardised office communications system, however.
▪ The communication system division, which makes products ranging from fax machines to cordless telephones, employs 8, 500.
▪ The unit includes the proposed Iridium global communications system that will use 66 low earth orbit satellites.
▪ Like most other parks growing up around Bangalore, it will have its own power, sewage, and satellite communications systems.
▪ The success of the organisation will depend, inpart, on the effectiveness of the communications systems in the organisation.
▪ All of the exchanges have upgraded their technology and communications systems to safely handle more trading volume.
technology
▪ It needed nerds tinkering brilliantly in California to create new communication technologies.
▪ One possibility for overcoming shortcomings in local distribution is wireless communication technology, including microwave cellular telephony.
▪ They required the most sophisticated communications technology so that they could transmit their stories and pictures back to their own countries.
▪ Although the industry is rapidly introducing advanced digital communication technologies, the telephone network continues to be dependent on analog transmission.
▪ Languages should be considered a key skill alongside literacy, numeracy, and information and communications technology, the report says.
▪ As communications technology evolves, so will the technology that would allow parents to block obscene or offensive information.
▪ A fourth centre on the use of information and communication technology in education is being planned.
▪ Finally, there is an assessment of potential impacts, on the political world, of the revolution in communication technologies.
■ VERB
develop
▪ We are also working hard to develop internal communication with staff.
▪ In 1968, Jacobs and Viterbi founded Linkabit, a small company that developed communications equipment for the military.
▪ Finally she decided to develop her interest in communications through a master's degree.
▪ The department also runs seminars on developing clinical and communication skills to reinforce the students' experience in the practices.
▪ There is a need for us to develop the communication skills of our horticultural staff to a broader degree than at present.
▪ At first we concentrated on craft and design, then we developed the graphical communications, and then we introduced technological studies.
▪ Team briefing sessions are effective in developing the art of communication.
▪ The purpose of the Classbook is to achieve maximum results in the classroom, in particular by developing the communication skills.
establish
▪ They also establish a framework for communications between the two.
▪ By a government licence under the Act, Mercury Communications, a private company, was authorized to establish a communications system.
▪ They had helped Kyle share the center of attention, engage warmly with the world, and establish two-way communication.
▪ AR-WACC has decided to establish a computerised communication data bank for the Region.
▪ She was just saying something, anything, my name, to establish communication.
▪ The sixth bowl - I establish communication with the immortal spirit.
improve
▪ Wordpower and Numberpower are certificates that have been introduced to help candidates improve their communication and numeracy skills.
▪ Talking it over will help improve communication.
▪ If we can take positive action to improve communication, then the whole community will benefit.
▪ It provided for improved communications between sectors of the divided city.
▪ The therapist hoped this would further improve their ease of communication.
▪ The goal is to improve the communication and flow of information among the sales, customer, and production functions.
▪ Team Worker: supports and reinforces, improves communications, fosters team spirit; stable, extrovert and flexible.
▪ Events were moving at a faster pace than ever before, thanks to improved transportation and communication.
provide
▪ One further possibility is that the extracellular material provides a means of communication.
▪ One part of the problem is that your company did not provide adequate two-way communication while redecorating.
▪ It provided for improved communications between sectors of the divided city.
▪ Windows for Workgroups supersedes Windows 3.1, and will provide information sharing, communication and workgroup application capabilities to Windows users.
▪ For the deaf, welfare officers had to provide a communication and translation service where necessary.
▪ All three will provide you with customized communications software to make the job of connecting easier.
use
▪ Ninth-century users had their own criteria of utility, and they preferred to use oral alongside written communications in most contexts.
▪ And they continued to use open communications, information sharing, and improvisation as the primary fuel for change.
▪ It is interesting to examine the optical fibre before using it in the communications system.
▪ Language is used primarily for communication.
▪ For example, to use particular channels of communication such as briefing meetings, video programmes, management information notes and so on.
▪ Objectives: A. Use diverse communication methods for wider and more effective delivery of critical public health messages.
▪ They can also be used for communications with the external world outside organizations.
▪ The panels can be used as a visual communication system for stricken users when computer systems fail.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a communication from the IRS
▪ Family Services is offering a workshop called "Better Communication for Couples."
▪ Radio was the pilot's only means of communication.
▪ There were some communication problems during the first phase of the project.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All Loral business lines except the space communications division will be sold to Lockheed Martin.
▪ At the heart of any work in modern communications must be the use of the best and quickest communication systems.
▪ I think the market will be increasingly excited about wireless communication in general, which could include direct-broadcast satellite programming.
▪ Increased speed of communication means that people can act much more quickly and can make trends into self-fulfilling prophecies.
▪ The company said the telephone companies have welcomed the planned upgrade as an opportunity to manage the growth in computer communications.
▪ The importance of effective nurse-patient communications can not be overemphasised.
▪ The second type of communications package are those which both transfer and, where appropriate, translate as they do so.
▪ There were no communications between Sepilok and Dermakot.