adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a developed country (=rich and where most people have a comfortable life)
▪ Developed countries are responsible for most emissions of carbon dioxide.
a developed/advanced nation (=one that has many industries)
▪ In the developed nations, many students go on to university.
economically developed/advanced (=modern, with many different types of industry)
▪ the economically developed countries of Western Europe
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
▪ Most may have been there in the pre-Norman period, although whether as fully developed villages or not will be discussed below.
▪ Our aim must be to turn out a fully developed person to the limits of his or her personality.
▪ Most important, in these heads and figures the Cubist concept of form is expressed in a fully developed way.
▪ Even for the socialists the road to proletarian triumph ran through a fully developed capitalism.
▪ Other writers are less hesitant about attempting to describe what a fully developed professional is like.
▪ The source of objective legal rules thus appears to be the fully developed rationality of the intellectual elites of different nations.
▪ At their most fully developed business information systems provide a formidable challenge to the creativity of archivists and historians alike.
▪ Labour has a more fully developed programme for the long-term unemployed, including three days work a week and two days training.
highly
▪ In cathedrals, as so much else, Cottle has a highly developed taste for the unusual and the unappreciated.
▪ They have a highly developed sense of curiosity.
▪ The managed mixed economy and a highly developed system of collective social provision were the means for achieving these values.
▪ Each has his own highly developed notion of a free trading market of closely associating nation states.
▪ Interviewers first decided whether a situation was eligible for inclusion by using a set of highly developed criteria provided for them.
▪ These companies pay lip-service to management development, fashioning their big progressive mouths with a cosmetic of highly developed lipstick techniques.
▪ He might be young but he still had a highly developed sense of humour.
▪ They have a highly developed sense of national identity but almost no sense of responsibility towards the state they live in.
less
▪ Processes such as population growth, educational expansion, political change and so on, are examined with reference to developed and less developed countries.
more
▪ In these respects they differ markedly from the other two parties and have a much stronger and more developed concept of citizenship.
▪ Several apparently larger and more developed buildings lie at the ends of short side-lanes behind the main frontages.
▪ This approach is influenced by a more developed analysis of bureaucracy associated with public choice theory.
most
▪ This has produced one of the most developed coastlines in Britain.
▪ The most developed of these, Meade's scheme for varying social insurance contributions, was given special prominence.
well
▪ Here, then, at the opening of the modern era, we have a quite well developed doctrine of popular sovereignty.
▪ Perhaps most important is the well developed nature of the domestic bank bill markets.
▪ Evidence on the value of screening has been obtained mostly from countries with well developed health care systems.
▪ Another interesting feature about these new thelodonts is that there is evidence that a well developed stomach was present.
▪ The radial shields are short and bar-like and carry a single row or well developed spinelets along their length.
▪ It is one of comparison between the northern, highly industrialised countries and the southern, less well developed economies.
■ NOUN
area
▪ There are two recently developed areas which are perfect for lesser mortals.
country
▪ In most developed countries, cooking would account for less than 5 percent of national energy consumption.
▪ Life expectation at birth is about 45 years in developing countries and more than 70 years in developed countries.
▪ Most of the Western world's best sites have now been developed but potential still exists in less developed countries.
▪ In many developed countries, politicians have at last realised the promise offered by the magnificent achievements of computer hardware engineers.
▪ United Nations target for developed countries.
▪ In a developed country that system is generally dependable.
▪ Consequently, the widescale sanatorium service was doomed, an enormously cost effective benefit for both developing and developed countries.
▪ Between 1880 and 1890, for example, almost 1,000 electrical apparatus companies were founded in developed countries.
economy
▪ The complexities of a modern developed economy, however, make barter totally impractical for most purposes.
▪ People in even the simplest forms of developed economy required goods and services which they could not provide for themselves.
▪ It is one of comparison between the northern, highly industrialised countries and the southern, less well developed economies.
form
▪ The judgement of the dead gradually came under the authority of Osiris, reaching its developed form by the New Kingdom.
▪ Here we have, in fact, a developed form of the variable analysis discussed in the last chapter.
nation
▪ The developed nations have been lavish with advice.
▪ But what of the claimed benefits for the health of developed nations?
▪ The G77 group of developing nations called for a commitment from all developed nations to meet this target by the year 2000.
sense
▪ They have a highly developed sense of curiosity.
▪ Field independence also relates to one's sense of separate identity, or developed sense of one's own feelings and needs.
▪ He might be young but he still had a highly developed sense of humour.
▪ They have a highly developed sense of national identity but almost no sense of responsibility towards the state they live in.
▪ Fishes, however, do have a highly developed sense of smell, as do many marine invertebrates.
society
▪ If this is the case, can it be substantiated by evidence from the history of developed societies?
▪ Profound technological developments have already critically restructured the economies of developed societies from the production of things to the production of knowledge.
▪ For it so happens that the developed societies over-value certain kinds of mental operations, like logic.
world
▪ In the developed world, on the other hand, over-consumption was now a serious threat to health.
▪ The first is that there is in the developed world a new culture of environmental awareness.
▪ They produced a declaration calling for financial and technological assistance from the developed world in return for taking steps to preserve their forests.
▪ Because borrowing has become easier, and because confidence has been high, personal savings have been falling around the developed world.
▪ In relation to forestry in the developed world there are a number of dichotomies.
▪ In the developed world we need to crack down hard on workplaces that break health and safety regulations.
▪ The reduction of mortality from both stroke and ischaemic heart disease are characteristic of much of the developed world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Birthrates in developed countries are generally very low.
▪ This disease has mostly been eliminated, at least in the developed nations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In these respects they differ markedly from the other two parties and have a much stronger and more developed concept of citizenship.
▪ Profound technological developments have already critically restructured the economies of developed societies from the production of things to the production of knowledge.
▪ The complexity of rural development everywhere, whether in the developed or the developing world, is not always realised.
▪ The lack of developed commercial institutions at this time meant that businesses such as barging were inevitably family-based.
▪ The reduction of mortality from both stroke and ischaemic heart disease are characteristic of much of the developed world.
▪ This is particularly the case in less developed countries and in the rural or other underserved areas of more developed countries.
▪ Thus the management of forests on a global basis constitutes an agent of environmental change in both the developed and developing world.