noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a development programme
▪ This project is a central part of the development programme for the area.
a development project
▪ Our aim is assess the environmental impact of new development projects.
a pattern of development
▪ Regular checks help to ensure that the child is following the normal pattern of development
a stage of development
▪ We have several ideas in various stages of development.
advances/developments in technology
▪ Because of developments in technology, minicomputers can now do what mainframes did in the past.
an exciting development (=a change that makes a product, situation etc better)
▪ This exciting development could mark the end of the long-running conflict.
anticipate changes/developments
▪ The schedule isn’t final, but we don’t anticipate many changes.
career development/advancement/progression
▪ A good job offers a programme of training and career development.
character development (=the process of developing characters)
▪ I thought the plot was boring and there wasn’t much character development.
child development
▪ She’s an expert in child development.
commercial development (=the building of houses, hotels, restaurants etc)
▪ The increased number of tourists has resulted in further commercial development.
development aid (=given to help develop poor countries)
▪ It’s one of the poorest countries in the world, but it has received no UN development aid.
economic growth/development (=when businesses become more successful)
▪ We have enjoyed a period of steady economic growth.
future development
▪ the debate over the future development of the European Union
industrial development/growth
▪ rapid post-war industrial development
intellectual development/ability/activity etc
▪ a job that requires considerable intellectual effort
joint development
▪ Both companies are involved in the joint development of a new medium-sized car.
product development
▪ The money will be used to fund product development.
rapid growth/expansion/development
▪ The industry is experiencing rapid growth.
research and development
ribbon development
the pace of development
▪ The pace of development in computer graphics is amazing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ In places the text is a little unsatisfactory but this reflects the early stage of development rather than the author's own expertise.
▪ Every psychotherapy process, early in its development, defines the basic questions it is trying to answer.
▪ One case where the inductive signals may have been identified is in early amphibian development.
▪ He also formed Kloss Video Corp., working on the early development of the large-screen projection television.
▪ Indeed the earliest suburban development preceded railway expansion by a decade or so in the big cities.
▪ A new Early Head Start program, designed around new research on early brain development, targets children from infancy to 3.
▪ Stability problems were evident in the early development stage.
▪ Through an important earlier development, the providers in the Eastern District had already anticipated the trend.
economic
▪ In this way, possible areas for economic development were identified.
▪ The government today is trying to combine preservation of indigenous cultures with economic development.
▪ Does government have a community economic development strategy?
▪ Day believes it will provide greater predictability in economic development efforts if all communities in Arizona have the same minimum wage.
▪ Objective: to promote international trade, particularly that of developing countries, with a view to accelerating economic development.
▪ The administration clearly preferred not to have any federally funded programs directly aimed at local economic development.
▪ It was designed to achieve economic development in a region in which demographic increase consistently outstripped economic growth.
▪ Departments of Commerce changed from passive complaint bureaus for the business community to active promoters of economic development projects.
further
▪ The Council also requested to be kept informed of further developments in this field.
▪ These experiences are necessary for the development of moral feelings and further affective development.
▪ Transtab A further development of Transpower, incorporating an elongated stability element.
▪ This presents further developments in social movement theory and research.
▪ Taking into account both costs and functions, the better-value proposals are identified for further development.
▪ There is, however a logical progression from present finance functions through to further developments.
▪ It worked, it was adopted as a design worthy of further development.
▪ To this end three further developments are envisaged.
future
▪ The second type of analysis is the macro-economic approach, deducing future developments from past quantitative macro-economic observations.
▪ If the deal is completed, Rouse would immediately become a dominant force in the future development of Las Vegas.
▪ For all of these agents of environmental change, economic and political considerations are primary factors in their operation and future development.
▪ Whatever the outcome, s.61 style remedies are important for the future development of civil liability for insider dealing. 4.2.5.
▪ WordPerfect have found the multi-tasking capabilities of OS/2 valuable and see it as an important platform for future development.
▪ Your child's pre-school days and infant and junior school years are vital in his future development.
▪ The mental or spiritual body retains all the potential of the individual for his or her future development.
▪ One result would be an agreed agenda for action for that specific nursery, with pointers for future development.
important
▪ The other important development has been the glycosylated haemoglobin level.
▪ The United Kingdom is one of the leaders in open systems, which is a very important technological development.
▪ One form of play that is particularly important in the development of children explores human roles.
▪ All the important developments within the kinetic theory took place after this falsification.
▪ These two properties provide a most important development within the Region, albeit that they are very different in their aims.
▪ However, two important developments occurred to derail the peace process.
industrial
▪ Calcutta's industrial development in the 1950s occurred without a corresponding expansion in regular employment.
▪ Countries not so reliant on oil because of lack of industrial development can be hard hit indirectly.
▪ She was previously senior industrial development officer with Middlesbrough Borough Council.
▪ None of the world's poor countries can afford to curb industrial development.
▪ This would require farmers to apply for planning permission as is the case with other commercial or industrial developments.
▪ Important industrial and development projects were also either postponed or cancelled.
▪ Statutory controls should be introduced on industrial and commercial development, and resources made available for the removal of existing inappropriate developments.
▪ Over the long historical period since the Industrial Revolution, the focus of industrial development has shifted a number of times.
intellectual
▪ In a crucial explanatory passage the narrator tells us: This marks a great step in Lok's intellectual development.
▪ Levels of intellectual development vary considerably among children.
▪ Motor and intellectual development are inseparable.
▪ As such, intellectual development is adaptive.
▪ There are various factors which may affect the emotional and intellectual development of their children.
▪ There are just better and better placements as intellectual development proceeds.
▪ The argument must still confront the anthropological and linguistic evidence for intellectual development as well as capacity in different cultures.
▪ Accordingly, differences in prior experiences can contribute to individual differences in intellectual development.
joint
▪ The product is the result of an agreement signed in October 1991 for joint development of an FRAM-compatible radio frequency transponder chip.
▪ Several of the schools are proposing to undertake joint development work with local colleges.
▪ The company will maintain a strategic manufacturing agreement with the startup and joint business development arrangements.
▪ It's more joint development of the applications and systems they need.
▪ A joint development between LogIT and the Lego Robolab might just help to break down the science and technology interface.
▪ The new car is a joint development between Honda and the Rover Group.
▪ It could be a joint development or a pricey investment by a third party.
late
▪ As they walked to the terminal, Wiggs ran through the latest developments.
▪ Data relating to morphogenesis by small bowel isolates of later development, are limited.
▪ One of the most exciting concepts coming through Charnos' latest product development is the control top with lycra.
▪ Capital is devoted to the creation of desires and needs which can only be fulfilled by the latest developments of the market.
▪ It would be nice to believe that the Health Secretary spends all his time understanding the very latest developments in heart-lung transplants.
▪ The latest development in the technology is to build in the recorder as well, making the whole thing highly portable.
▪ A later development introduced a press to compress the hops in each pocket which was held in a pocket sling.
major
▪ The major industrial developments were heavily concentrated in a few key areas of the Empire.
▪ Throughout any major development project, there have always been development problems.
▪ And although London's Docklands has seen major development, questions are being asked about its nature.
▪ The city also reached agreement with a major development firm to market the industrial park area.
▪ The latter have not yet really taken root in movies, but may be one of the major developments of the 1990s.
▪ But in spite of this, the recession and the planning policies adopted for teacher education prevented any significant major development.
▪ Each of these interventions of the Celts proved their importance by producing major developments in the political systems which they attacked.
new
▪ Hadley is NatPower's new business development director but happens to share his name with the Responsible Independent parliamentary candidate for Wimbledon.
▪ In part, our failure had to do with our traditional approach to new product development.
▪ Increasingly funds for new developments had to be found from redeployment of services and savings.
▪ Within the year, the new development director had brought in three times her salary.
▪ As in all the other fields of actuarial work, the profession has provided seminars and conferences for debate on new developments.
▪ Whatever the new development was, it could wait.
▪ Do you anticipate new developments in the future?
▪ Now this, to Reich, is a new development.
personal
▪ Is caring for the child's personal development to be relegated to overtime?
▪ Barber argues that these traits can be traced back to three components of personal development and socialization.
▪ Nevertheless, adolescence is the time when ego-identity development inevitably dominates the personal development of the individual for a while.
▪ But it seemed to me that law school and the profession itself were fairly open to personal development.
▪ It can advance the school's agenda by assisting academic and personal development.
▪ And the culture has little use for the idea of personal development through parenthood.
▪ A new trust fund has been launched to help social workers and other professionals train in psychodynamic learning and personal development.
▪ Individuals frequently work in a number of different company environments and experience a steady stream of training and personal development.
political
▪ But it would at least offer a chance of a positive political development.
▪ Allowances must be made for differences in national temperament and political development.
▪ Also John Lloyd on Soviet economic and political developments.
▪ This is influenced by interest rates, economic and political developments or expectations.
▪ Do not these apparently daily murders make plain and stark the need for political developments to take place?
▪ More careful attention has been paid to the Kadets and to political developments on the Right.
▪ It is important to contextualise Nizan's political and ideological development at this juncture.
▪ Changes in the relationship between health and wealth occur over time and between regions, along with economic, political and cultural development.
professional
▪ Such opportunities and experiences offer great scope for professional and personal development. 11.
▪ Do you have a sense of humor?-Are you interested in professional development?
▪ It is possible to obtain a high percentage of your continuing professional development hours by this method.
▪ Team teaching, or something very like it, is an important element in the continuing professional development of the teacher.
▪ This module provides a research framework to help teachers examine some aspect of their own professional development.
▪ The moratorium on national curriculum change gives a small opportunity for professional development courses to grow.
▪ This ongoing professional development is based on the fundamental premise that solutions and strategies lie in teachers' own expertise and experience.
▪ Attitudes towards professional development are also differentiated according to length of teaching experience.
rapid
▪ This stage is characterized by the development of language and other forms of representation and rapid conceptual development.
▪ The only other period of such rapid development is adolescence.
▪ But the rapid leapfrogging residential development of Phoenix has resulted in benefits for some.
▪ Where fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals with high added value can be produced by biotechnology there will be rapid developments.
▪ The problem is not a function of demographics but of rapid development coupled with a lagging education system.
▪ But the issue was fascinating because of other things, heralding the rapid development of technology in the next century.
▪ In Phoenix the community development block grant was implemented within this context of rapid development.
recent
▪ In fact, many recent developments have served to widen the gap between North and South.
▪ Another comparatively recent development is computer technology.
▪ The book highlights the problem university staff have in keeping up with recent developments.
▪ Although only a recent development, it is already being used extensively for interactive publishing.
▪ A recent development with current accounts has been the introduction of debit cards.
▪ How have families headed by women been affected by recent economic developments?
▪ Abstract guides to recent developments in specific fields are also published in each issue.
▪ Our resorts, in the quieter bays of the Bodrum Peninsula, are little affected by recent developments.
regional
▪ A dimension of increased decision-making concentration which has attracted particular notice concerns the effects on regional diversity and development.
▪ The progressive dismantling of regional development policy since 1979 has moved more swiftly than steps aimed at deregulating the housing sector.
▪ In some cases, such as the regional development grant, there was little scope for re-allocation as spending was demand-led.
▪ Lindsay Pepperell, regional business development manager, Wimpey Environmental, Warrington.
▪ Others will be in centres of regional development, local authorities and commerce.
▪ Specialised bodies, such as regional development agencies are also extremely important.
▪ The third lesson is that local economic development can not take place without an overall strategy for national and regional development.
▪ Crucially, this instability hinders regional development, incites repressive governance, and compounds the poverty on which militancy feeds.
social
▪ Reading and moral development Much of the content of social development is concerned with ethics.
▪ He said an agreement had been struck whereby Freeport would provide 1 percent of annual revenues for social development programs.
▪ Sets out basic design principles for parking provision in social housing developments, highlighting the potential for increasing housing densities.
▪ In fact, one can not be sure to what economic and social developments the opinion is referring.
▪ Without industry and rapid social development, the eastern lands were simply too unattractive and severe to Germanise with any ease.
▪ The institutions of economic, social and community development invented in the nineteenth century have kept pace with neither need nor aspiration.
▪ In particular, the instrumental approach locates government growth in a broader pattern of social and economic development.
▪ The internalization of rules, values and judgements is an important part of social and moral development.
sustainable
▪ The environment is our future. Sustainable development is the phrase that seeks to make this clear.
▪ Analyse policy options for dealing with global environmental change and promoting the goal of sustainable development.
▪ The only reference to sustainable development was to be found in paragraph two hundred and thirteen.
▪ We believe that this what is required if we are to achieve environmentally sustainable development.
▪ Discusses the conflicting arguments for and against sustainable development, with particular reference to architecture.
▪ The fashionable creed of sustainable development panders to that sort of thinking.
▪ The internet can and should be harnessed for sustainable development.
▪ We had a long debate in Committee on sustainable development.
urban
▪ That was most graphically illustrated when Sheffield was arguing about an urban development corporation.
▪ It also provides money, drawn partially from fees paid by developers, to protect land from urban development.
▪ A further category of urban development was the growth of trading and financial centres.
▪ In my judgment, the real failure is that the private sector is not active enough in urban development.
▪ Middlesex sought to prevent urban development, with the secondary purpose of preserving amenity and providing recreational facilities.
▪ Developing Urban Quality Economic development in Glasgow requires the provision of high quality business premises and a quality environment.
▪ This attractive model of urban development has proved remarkably elusive on the ground.
▪ Planning and land policy; Urban and regional development.
■ NOUN
business
▪ Matthew Lutz, 61, vice chairman and business development manager of Magnum, who held a similar position with Hunter.
▪ Creating a business development group may be necessary to consolidate knowledge and foster learning, but it is not always enough.
▪ Quarmby will now be responsible for business development and managing director of group services, coordinating services to all group companies.
▪ Malcolm said Loughborough had been innovative and show modern thinking in its approach to selling and business development.
▪ They found their champion in Wayne Rowley, who was then the director of new business development for the chamber.
▪ He said he wants to coordinate more business development around the arts center and work to establish an industrial park.
career
▪ The need to develop systematic succession planning linked to individual career development. 9.
▪ This led to ongoing negotiations regarding the school board engaging me as a consultant to conduct inservice career development seminars.
▪ We also began tracking the career developments of film-makers commissioned through New Directors.
▪ Since career development is mandated by state and federal categorical funds, the program is impossible to jettison.
▪ He continued to regret the limitation on his career development imposed by what he saw as his confinement to Art teaching.
▪ If I stayed on I would have to content myself with twenty-seven years of horizontal career development!
▪ Job shares - Women's forum report back Main Items 1. Career development proposals 2.
▪ The thought of accepting horizontal career development for the next twenty or thirty years is a numbing thought.
curriculum
▪ Further, the curriculum development role had four main versions: curriculum manager; curriculum consultant; curriculum enhancer; curriculum facilitator.
▪ They supported curriculum development and professional development for teachers and work-site mentors.
▪ Eraut's argument is appealing particularly in the light of recent experience of curriculum development, outlined in the previous section.
▪ They were also concerned with curriculum development, advisory support and in-service education.
▪ Significant correlations between lesson activities and pupils' perceptions might be applied in teacher training and curriculum development programmes.
▪ However, although the director had talked about curriculum development the emphasis was very much on the accountability dimension.
▪ The influence of process and research models for curriculum development can also be detected in a number of proposals for insider evaluation.
▪ Four lecture courses assessed on course work; two curriculum development exercises.
officer
▪ In addition to preparing for recruitment the development officers began to prepare for the training and employment of support workers.
▪ Neither development officer found any marked degree of antipathy or anxiety about the project at this stage.
▪ United's youth development officer was called in by Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan on Friday and told he was being fired.
▪ But after some counselling from the development officer the situation improved and the worker was able to continue in post.
▪ Along with their cases, development officers also had their support workers.
▪ The development officer said she felt there was little she could do except visit occasionally.
▪ There is already a strong commitment to developing expert practitioners in Medway, as demonstrated by the appointment of staff development officers.
plan
▪ The excavation of the Viking site at York was so important, though, that the development plans were changed.
▪ The vote means that the project will be included in the current 10-year development plan.
▪ Whether they give rise to more or to less planning blight than the old development plan system is debatable.
▪ We support the emphasis placed here on understanding coastal processes prior to development plans being drawn up.
▪ New commitments from the sustainable development plan would be incorporated in the White Paper's tables for subsequent monitoring.
▪ In considering applications for planning permission, planning authorities will take into account the provisions of the development plan.
▪ This plan, together with the Structure Plan will provide the development plan framework.
▪ In the three years since these procedures were introduced the standards of development plans and the annual statements have varied widely.
product
▪ The international automobile industry is a typical case where shortening the product development lead time is recognized as a valuable competitive weapon.
▪ They are usually part of executive teams that are involved in strategic planning or new product development.
▪ In return you get the benefits of staff training, purchasing, product development, marketing and leasing services.
▪ There are significant differences between vendors offerings, and future product development plans.
▪ CrossCom says that it plans to use the net proceeds for new product development and for working capital.
▪ This matters most in fuzzy, creative processes such as product development.
▪ Oddly, the most successful firms spent proportionately less on product development.
▪ Sound background in concept research and product development.
project
▪ Others found themselves struggling to plan development projects.
▪ The program thrust local government into a proactive role as a deal maker in economic development projects.
▪ A preferred time for introducing the procedure is in the design phase of the development project.
▪ These factors plus preferential marketing arrangements and external financial support for development projects have all contributed to land degradation.
▪ The Karimojong happily accepted these unexpected free gifts but have not been too enthusiastic about development projects introduced after the famine.
▪ A new course in a number of respects resembles a research or development project.
▪ Figure 5.3 is a decision tree for a hypothetical development project to develop and market a new product.
▪ Bull will lead co-operative development projects for a range of symmetrical multiprocessing systems based on its multi-processing expertise.
software
▪ Products Usually the product package is created for use when software development is completed and the software is ready for issue.
▪ Others manage computer operations, software development, or data bases.
▪ Qualiparc is built upon the Uniface software development environment and costs from £5,000 up.
▪ Spry Inc has reorganised, dividing its system integration and software development operations into two separate companies.
▪ Some cost estimators now specialize in only estimating computer software development and related costs.
▪ It is conventional wisdom that software development lags several years behind the hardware.
▪ All projects involve a significant element of software development.
■ VERB
encourage
▪ And fourthly, subsidies and loans help provide finance to encourage development.
▪ Western training programs are not grounded in a philosophy that encourages the systematic development of unusual forces.
▪ A great deal can be done by government to help and encourage such development.
▪ They also encourage the development of false class consciousness.
▪ Various devices were used to encourage the development of separate identities between the two groups.
▪ The next step is to safeguard these changes by formalizing patients' rights and encouraging the development of self-advocacy movements.
▪ This will encourage the development of fruiting laterals.
▪ Motorola aims to win industry standard status for the software to encourage development of new mobile computing applications.
house
▪ Considers the relationship between housing potential, urban quality and sustainable development for different categories of housing developments.
▪ The age-oriented community was conceived as a combination housing development and amusement park for active seniors.
▪ Looks at the economic and technological forces affecting the nature and location of work, and the implications for sustainable housing development.
▪ Roads, fields, and housing developments made it more and more difficult for sheep to move between ranges.
▪ Part 1 reviews the forces shaping housing development and settlement patterns.
▪ The housing associations also gained the freedom to raise their own funds for new housing developments.
▪ Sets out basic design principles for parking provision in social housing developments, highlighting the potential for increasing housing densities.
▪ No bureaucrat could know more about problems in a public housing development than the people who live there.
lead
▪ Criticism by many research workers has led to the development of ancillary measures, involving more sophisticated techniques.
▪ Victory led to the development of variations.
▪ It was this criticism of the adaptive expectations hypothesis that led to the development of the rational expectations hypothesis.
▪ He identifies six stages of experiences or development that lead to the development of a vision and leadership: 1.
▪ In time this will lead to the development of faults.
▪ Both factors may be part of a complex cascade of events that ultimately leads to the development of duodenal ulceration.
▪ The knock-on effect of the advancement of the women's game has also led to refreshing developments at girls' level.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
personal development
▪ A new trust fund has been launched to help social workers and other professionals train in psychodynamic learning and personal development.
▪ All these contributed much to a sense of fellowship and corporate social identity as well as providing opportunities for personal development and individual enrichment.
▪ Barber argues that these traits can be traced back to three components of personal development and socialization.
▪ Individuals frequently work in a number of different company environments and experience a steady stream of training and personal development.
▪ Individuals will be responsible for their own personal development plans which will be measured against agreed standards of business performance.
▪ Is caring for the child's personal development to be relegated to overtime?
▪ Of most importance to teachers were affective aims relating to the personal development of children.
▪ Such opportunities and experiences offer great scope for professional and personal development. 11.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Developments in radar and engine designs have changed the shape of the plane.
▪ A child's emotional development may be severely damaged by a traumatic experience in its early years.
▪ a new housing development
▪ Climate was an important factor in the development of classical Greek culture.
▪ NATO allies will be discussing developments in the Balkans.
▪ New developments are springing up all around the town.
▪ Several hundred acres of wetland have been sold for development.
▪ The class teaches teenage mothers the stages of child development.
▪ The country has experienced impressive economic development in the past decade.
▪ The former cropland has been turned into housing developments and shopping malls.
▪ The new development at the edge of town is aimed at first-time buyers.
▪ The program promotes economic development in the inner city.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If that section remains, it could help reveal just how much sprawl development is really costing us.
▪ Most of the early developments occurred within the United States.
▪ Rather they derive from associated events in experience that antedate linguistic structure both phylogenetically and, in man, in individual development.
▪ The idea of development is married to the idea of the nation-state.
▪ The venture group not only generates new ideas, but is also responsible for development and exploitation of them.
▪ When they are first learning to talk, we support, watch over, and extend their oral language development.
▪ Women participate in poorer jobs and in the tertiary sectors, areas which have suffered the most from peripheral capitalist development.