I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a domestic cat (=one that lives with people)
▪ People have kept domestic cats for thousands of years.
a domestic chore (=a chore such as cleaning or putting things away)
▪ Everyone in the flat shared the cooking and domestic chores.
a domestic consumer (=one that buys in the country where something is produced)
▪ Demand from domestic consumers is increasing.
a domestic disputeformal (= between people who live together)
▪ The court heard that he had been stabbed during a domestic dispute.
a domestic/household pet
▪ Cats and other domestic pets give their owners a lot of pleasure.
a domestic/internal flight (=a flight within a country)
▪ Is there a domestic flight between Havana and Varadero?
domestic consumption (=use of something in the country where it is produced)
▪ Domestic consumption of oil has increased.
domestic football (=played between teams from the same country)
▪ Saturday's defeat was the team's first in domestic football for seven matches.
domestic happiness (=happiness that comes from family relationships and life at home)
▪ After six years with Joe, the normality of domestic happiness bored her.
domestic harmony (=harmony in the home)
▪ There was a lot of tension beneath the impression of domestic harmony.
domestic partner
domestic politics (=within a country)
▪ The war had a major impact on the country’s domestic politics.
domestic science
domestic servants
▪ Many young girls became domestic servants.
domestic service
domestic violence (=violence between a couple in their home)
▪ Police said she was a victim of domestic violence.
domestic/household etc appliance
▪ There’s plenty of space for all the usual kitchen appliances.
domestic/household fuel (=used in a house)
▪ There has been a sharp rise in domestic fuel costs.
domestic/internal affairs (also home affairs British English) (= events inside a country)
▪ the Minister of Home Affairs
▪ He said that the US should not try to interfere in his country's domestic affairs.
domestic/wedded/marital bliss
▪ six months of wedded bliss
gross domestic product
household/domestic duties (=jobs you have to do around the house)
▪ My husband and I share most of the household duties.
household/domestic refuse
household/domestic waste
▪ Newspapers and magazines make up 10% of household waste.
on the domestic/international front
▪ On the domestic front, de Gaulle’s priority was to secure his government’s authority.
the domestic sphere
▪ More women started to be trained for tasks outside the domestic sphere.
the home/domestic/family environment
▪ A lot of children suffer because of problems in their home environment.
the local/national/domestic economy (=in one particular country or area)
▪ The new factory has given a massive boost to the local economy.
wild/domestic/farm animals
▪ cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
affair
▪ There is no reason today why Paris should intervene massively in our domestic affairs.
▪ Catherine had trouble tending to their own domestic affairs though they had a handy expertise for the affairs of others.
▪ Both these men, under the Yorkists, were more concerned with national administration than with the domestic affairs of the household.
▪ Thereafter, his form fluctuated as irregularly as his training and his domestic affairs.
▪ The image of the government was one of strength in domestic affairs.
animal
▪ The founding of these organisations gave real impetus to a movement directed towards improving the lot of domestic animals.
▪ Although the afflicted creatures do not behave aggressively, Fosco said, they still pose a threat to domestic animals.
▪ Familiarity alone prevents our seeing how universally and largely the minds of our domestic animals have been modified by domestication.
▪ The economy was mixed with remains of wheat, grinding stones and iron sickles indicating agriculture alongside the remains of domestic animals.
▪ Such rules serve to distinguish further basic social categories: friends from enemies, domestic animals from wild beasts, and so on.
▪ The lack of fish remains and the presence of bones of domestic animals suggests that food supply was no problem.
▪ The trouble is that Barbary apes are not domestic animals.
appliance
▪ A separate utility room nearby houses all the noisy domestic appliances.
▪ Third - the occasional sums needed for holidays, car repairs, house repairs, and replacement of furniture and domestic appliances.
▪ What's more, it tends to suffer from domestic appliance interference.
cat
▪ After all, they're treated in rather the same disgraceful way as domestic cats.
▪ Loss of beachfront habitat and predation by domestic cats and introduced red foxes pushed the least tern to the brink of extinction.
▪ These are the seven most important sound messages made by domestic cats.
▪ The wild ancestors of our domestic cats liked to eat freshly killed prey - they were not scavengers.
▪ As indeed is the lion, the otter or the domestic cat when they are out a-hunting.
▪ This short gestation means that, like the kittens of a domestic cat, the cubs are born blind and helpless.
▪ This snake-mimicry is employed by many species, from the familiar domestic cat to less familiar finches.
▪ The explanation is that the domestic cat uses two vocabularies at once.
chore
▪ An outline of some of the domestic chores undertaken by Mr and Mrs McGill will help to answer this question.
▪ Not having a housekeeper meant most of the domestic chores became mine.
▪ It is not unusual for women to work a 40-hour week, followed by a further 40-hour week of domestic chores.
▪ I come after finishing the domestic chores at home which is not far off.
▪ I am bespoke in the evening, but the daytime is free, once I've done my domestic chores.
▪ The students shared the cooking and domestic chores.
consumption
▪ Worse was expected to come as industrial and domestic consumption of electricity picked up after the attrition of the war years.
▪ Oil imports in 1995 account for much more than half of domestic consumption, up from 27 percent in 1985.
▪ He states that few sheep are reared ... and those only for domestic consumption.
▪ Drought has caused further problems in the agricultural sector, both for domestic consumption and exports.
▪ The cheapening delivery costs of coal extended its use in manufacturing and in domestic consumption.
▪ It is therefore more than ever necessary that the recovery should be export led rather than led by domestic consumption.
▪ Most of these probably end up cracked at home for domestic consumption.
▪ Domestic production as a source of domestic consumption has been displaced by partner country production.
currency
▪ As a general point banks in many countries were highly regulated in relation to deposits and lending conducted in their own domestic currency.
▪ The standard economic answer to both these questions is that the price of foreign exchange should be raised in terms of the domestic currency.
▪ Foreign currency receipts must be converted into the domestic currency in use in the exporter's country.
▪ An importer might be able to make payment in his own domestic currency if this is acceptable to the exporter.
▪ Any company or bank conducting business outside of its domestic currency zone must have access to international capital.
▪ The reader should ascertain the position regarding his own domestic currency.
▪ Domestic banking involves taking and making loans in domestic currency to residents of the country where the bank is located.
▪ Their central bank accepts deposits from residents in exchange for domestic currency.
demand
▪ Exports fell by 0.5 percent while domestic demand, fuelled by annual tax rebates, grew by 0.8 percent in real terms.
▪ Yet, although domestic demand is weak, real interest rates remain high because prices are falling.
▪ Quite simply, domestic policy performance was not sufficiently competitive to match a high level of domestic demand.
▪ Although the economy continued to grow, that growth was being led by a rapidly increasing domestic demand for consumer items.
▪ The danger is that it will get worse as recovery brings increased domestic demand.
▪ Monetary policy is now geared to the exchange rate, not to domestic demand.
▪ Faced with growing domestic demand, further tree growing seems desirable, offering ample scope for the development of sylvopastoral systems.
dispute
▪ Mr Say is said to be distraught after a domestic dispute at his home.
▪ Police said the homicide appears to be related to a domestic dispute.
▪ The court heard that the cousin was stabbed during a domestic dispute.
▪ In order to exclude domestic disputes, there is a proviso that the offence can not be committed inside a private dwelling.
▪ In towns, the police policy of not becoming involved in domestic disputes had left women without protection.
▪ In parliament, the bitterest domestic dispute concerned one of the oldest issues of all, drink.
economy
▪ The rate has been raised quite high enough to deal with overheating in the domestic economy.
▪ Lloyd said he was concerned that a weakening domestic economy would hurt the railroads in 1996.
▪ And strategically, Mr Healey cut public spending and brought the domestic economy back into balance.
▪ Transaction costs may be higher than in the domestic economy.
▪ In essence, the domestic economy is growing too rapidly.
▪ This increase in export earnings will stimulate the domestic economy.
▪ Healthy and rising exports would help balance out the squeeze in the domestic economy.
flight
▪ Airports ran out of fuel, and domestic flights were diverted.
▪ Time was when even domestic flights were something akin to exotic adventure.
▪ Diamond Service will continue on domestic flights.
▪ Coupons generally offer the best savings when used for coast-to-coast or other long-distance domestic flights.
front
▪ It will be equal competition on the domestic front.
▪ From the mid-forties onward Congress legislated for the domestic front while the President acted on the foreign front.
▪ On the domestic front, disposal tends to mean throwing rubbish in the bin.
▪ On the domestic front I was less fortunate and had no great success with house hunting.
fuel
▪ This is used as a domestic fuel.
▪ Almost all the bogs have been extensively peat-cut for domestic fuel.
▪ Budget tax anger Anti-poverty campaigners have been angered by the Chancellor's budget decision to tax domestic fuel.
▪ Up to that time coal was chiefly used as a domestic fuel but from 1812 onwards it went to sea as bunker fuel.
help
▪ Two other characteristics of the sample population require some comment: the incidence of employment, and of domestic help.
▪ Also patron of domestic help, housekeepers, and maids.
▪ Midwinter does not restrict his discussion of domestic help to private householders.
▪ Others were manned by his friends and the domestic help.
▪ When domestic help is employed it may be the case that she takes over the husband's responsibilities rather than the wife's.
▪ You may be looking for light domestic help one or two hours per week, or 24-hour a day care.
industry
▪ Countries may tax energy consumption at radically different rates without seeing all their domestic industry disappear offshore.
▪ Aiding the domestic industry to gain or maintain international competitive advantage has never been an explicit expectation.
▪ The idea is that temporary protection shall be afforded to each nation's domestic industry exclusively through the customs tariff.
▪ The rural economy and domestic industry have developed quite far in Connecticut; the people there are happy.
▪ That is what attracts investment from abroad and makes it profitable for domestic industry to invest as well.
▪ Hera was also the protectress of the home and domestic industry.
▪ A US$5,900 million development fund would be set up to help domestic industry modernize so that its products could compete with new imports.
▪ A falling yen should help a bit, though domestic industries such as construction, retailing and property will not benefit.
issue
▪ The great domestic issue of our poor century.
▪ Even for the last remaining superpower, domestic issues, not foreign matters, dominate national elections.
▪ Women get together and discuss the lack of hot water and other domestic issues which also signals their awareness of sexism.
▪ On the defensive himself on domestic issues, he is turning to foreign policy because he has little choice.
▪ On most domestic issues, he has tried to reformulate the traditional liberal-conservative debate.
▪ Even if these concerns are addressed, there are some daunting domestic issues that may prevent the plan from being realized.
▪ The reason is not that he ignored domestic issues.
▪ Often, boycotts have been instigated by domestic issues such as gay rights, racial discrimination and labor disputes.
law
▪ This is juridically an unsatisfactory explanation for those States where treaties do not form part of domestic law unless incorporated by legislation.
▪ They will, in conformity with domestic law and international obligations, continue to take effective measures to this end. 31.
▪ For my part I can detect no inconsistency between our domestic law and the Convention.
▪ Entitlement to compensation may be subject to the reasonable requirements of domestic law. 3.
▪ The reason for a larger military role in domestic law enforcement is not hard to fathom.
▪ Miss Thomas is not relying upon a contractual obligation other than an obligation by the university to comply with its own domestic laws.
life
▪ In course of time the poor seem to have accepted the image of their domestic life created by their betters.
▪ The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideological boundary between rational members of society and the feckless.
▪ How were these cults to be consolidated so long as freedom of thought was the very basis of domestic life?
▪ Clarke was a deeply religious man who enjoyed mathematics, music, and domestic life.
▪ The objects we use to do these mundane tasks each day reveal the inner secrets of domestic life.
▪ Shortly before the first performance of Sea Change, unhappiness struck John's domestic life.
▪ Once the couple were joyfully reunited, William slipped back into domestic life.
market
▪ Software and services generated 44% of the total turnover in the domestic market, up from the 36% generated in 1991.
▪ The peanut program allows only farmers with a federal quota to grow peanuts for the domestic market.
▪ Nobody could finance increased imports of these commodities to provide competition for these producers on the domestic market.
▪ Even these companies are barred from selling to the domestic market.
▪ Through time wine has taken a much larger share of the domestic market.
▪ The increased deficit is to be financed by borrowing on the domestic market, largely from the domestic banking system.
▪ Without a theatrical release in their own domestic market, they stood little chance of recouping the money lavished on them.
▪ The bigger challenge is for domestic companies producing for the domestic market.
partner
▪ Last month, we enacted legislation to allow civil marriage ceremonies for domestic partners in San Francisco.
▪ The archdiocese still hopes to persuade the city to exempt Catholic Charities from the domestic partners ordinance, he said.
▪ Businesses that do not apply equal benefits to employees with domestic partners, they say, unfairly discriminate.
▪ The City states in its briefs that the domestic partners ordinance does not interfere with those statutes.
▪ The cost of the ceremony will be $ 35, which comes on top of a $ 30 domestic partners registration fee.
▪ A law passed by voters in 1994 gave retirement and health benefits to city employees' domestic partners.
▪ At issue is whether domestic partners benefits are covered by the federal statute.
▪ Aftergut argued that domestic partners benefits can be set aside from the federal act.
pet
▪ As well as looking after the welfare of domestic pets, the society plays a vital role in the care of farm livestock.
▪ The foxes cause little nuisance, whereas domestic pets befoul the streets, parks and gardens.
▪ Nowadays there are three partners in the practise specialising almost exclusively in domestic pets.
policy
▪ These pressures complicate the choices for domestic policy and add new dilemmas.
▪ For developing countries, volatility increased the direct impact on their domestic policies and plans.
▪ A similarly circular process has been under way in several areas of foreign and domestic policy.
▪ Assess Mussolini's domestic policies and achievements to 1935. 2.
▪ Traditionally, domestic policy was sharply differentiated from foreign policy.
▪ This is not a problem of conflicting treaties but of domestic policy conflicting with an agreement.
▪ Often the material was about plans for future changes in some aspect of domestic policy.
politics
▪ If you turned to domestic politics, the news was no better.
▪ At the time, 1948, the Cold War was becoming the pervasive issue in international affairs and domestic politics.
▪ Not a lot of domestic politics about, thank goodness!
▪ With domestic politics figured in, the cutoff seems cynical in the extreme.
▪ In terms of domestic politics, there was no one to challenge Franco's decisions, however arbitrary they might be.
▪ In the spring of 1978, it was dusted off for a more compelling reason, namely domestic politics.
▪ It was not easy to avoid domestic politics but we tried hard to achieve a delicate balance.
problem
▪ He went on to say all that was necessary to solve the small domestic problem was to be sensible.
▪ Murayama leaves his successors a host of severe domestic problems.
▪ In the 1960s this preoccupation gave way to an urgent need to consider domestic problems such as racial disharmony and poverty.
▪ He certainly did not envy him his domestic problems or his resulting injuries to soul and face.
▪ It was conscious of Britain's economic weaknesses and the public's desire to concentrate on domestic problems.
▪ Combined with domestic problems, the Chancellor s economic framework will be stress tested to the full.
▪ Comfort goals are very sensitive to work and domestic problems, especially personal or family illness.
▪ Politically the situation was contentious and Rhee had not shown the correct touch in tackling domestic problems.
product
▪ Tourism is our second biggest contributor - after North Sea oil - to gross domestic product.
▪ Trichet said the M3 target assumes a gross domestic product growth of 2. 5 percent.
▪ The gross domestic product rose between July and September compared to the previous three months.
▪ Dini said inflation was kept to a moderate pace during the year, even as gross domestic product rose 3 percent.
▪ Domestic product proportion Agriculture now contributes only 3.4% of Community gross domestic product, compared with 5.4% in 1970.
▪ In the former case, we need make no adjustment but the figures are renamed domestic product, income and expenditure.
production
▪ Others engaged in the domestic production of handicrafts.
▪ Oil imports began to decline as domestic production began to increase.
▪ Unfortunately, most of these efforts were directed towards reducing non-oil imports, which had damaging effects on domestic production.
▪ In addition, with more domestic production and higher prices business savings rise.
▪ The technique involves estimating apparent consumption by deducting exports from domestic production and adding on imports from union and non-union sources.
▪ The sugar program works by limiting domestic production and erecting trade barriers that keep the price of imported sugar high.
▪ In 1971 price controls on domestic production were imposed and the legislation limiting imports was repealed.
▪ I was basically asking the company to decide whether or not it wanted to maintain a domestic production capability.
rate
▪ Regressive between tax-payers Reflecting the importance of housing in the household budget, domestic rates fell most heavily on the low-income groups.
▪ The nominal costs of collecting domestic rates were also reduced between 1983/4 and 1984/5 and rose very little over the whole period.
▪ The community charge regime is an improvement on domestic rates in that respect.
▪ Only about one-third of potential voters pay full domestic rates.
▪ Enterprise has been driven away by high business rates and high domestic rates.
▪ But the main idea in the Green Paper was to replace domestic rates over a period of years by a community charge.
▪ The same qualification applies to domestic rates.
▪ In general, most of these commentaries had concluded that domestic rates were probably as fair and efficient a system as any.
responsibility
▪ They are at a disadvantage in the job market because of lower education and training levels, cultural prejudice and domestic responsibilities.
▪ Union consciousness and the activists Conventional wisdom attributes women's low participation in union affairs largely to domestic responsibilities.
▪ The attitude of employers to domestic responsibilities is of considerable importance and highly variable.
▪ Working in prisons, with the need for round-the-clock supervision poses particular problems for women who also carry traditional domestic responsibilities.
▪ In the next chapter we show that taking part-time work usually leads to an increase in domestic responsibility.
▪ In the past many health authorities discriminated unfairly by not employing those who may have had domestic responsibilities.
▪ Financial difficulties and childcare / domestic responsibilities, have been shown in other research on participation to be fundamental barriers.
▪ Joyce, as the oldest daughter living at home, shared a fair burden of the domestic responsibility.
servant
▪ To help support her growing family, she worked as a domestic servant in the houses of rich Anglo people in Pasadena.
▪ Edinburgh had practically no textile workers, men or women; but as we have seen it had a great many domestic servants.
▪ For most domestic servants though, the occupation was a temporary life-cycle one.
▪ Presumably the decline of domestic servants to launder the disgusting handkerchiefs.
▪ In Oxford, out of 312 boys, 119 became errand lads, while 110 girls out of 223 became domestic servants.
▪ She was destined to remain a spinster, finding work as a domestic servant in - of all places - far-away Surrey.
service
▪ Leapor's poetry on domestic service is part of a wide range of eighteenth century writings concerned with this type of work.
▪ They glimpsed each other across grocery counters and in the forced intimacy of domestic service now gone out of style.
▪ Thus domestic service must be seen as a type of economic relationship operating in all levels of society.
▪ They know it when their older loved ones die sooner because of having led harsh lives in domestic service or manual labor.
▪ Finally, on entering work of any kind except domestic service, she would find herself among mostly young women.
▪ Leapor, then, experienced domestic service not only as a servant but as a mistress.
▪ There are also places in her work where domestic service is described in very conventional terms.
▪ In 1881 as many as one in three girls aged between fifteen and twenty had entered domestic service.
task
▪ However as she grows older, and perhaps re-enters the labour market, domestic tasks are shared more equitably.
▪ When that was too much like work there were all the domestic tasks to catch up on.
▪ Even this minor domestic task was apparently beyond his powers.
▪ It is not uncommon to hear of old women who are cross when asked to perform domestic tasks in residential care!
▪ Some residents enjoy being useful and helping out with domestic tasks, and a good Home encourages this.
▪ Similarly, the husband is playing a greater part in domestic tasks associated with the house and children.
▪ Freeing teachers from time consuming domestic tasks such as tidying, cleaning and repairing equipment?
▪ The effect of women's work on the distribution of domestic tasks within households will be a further important focus on research.
use
▪ This company, in turn, departed, and by the 1970s, Millbottom had been partially converted for domestic use.
▪ Hence their smaller size reflects domestic use and they are of a similar size to those found on settlements.
▪ Proponents argue that the dams will check floods, facilitate fisheries, provide water for industrial and domestic use and promote tourism.
▪ This may happen where some one makes a recording for anything other than private and domestic use without consent.
▪ Devices like this poop scoop are better suited for domestic use.
▪ It's very ordinary office issue but also available in small packs for domestic use.
▪ The Romans attached great importance to an adequate supply of good water for their fountains, baths and domestic use.
violence
▪ One in six women are believed to be victims of domestic violence, yet many are suffering in silence.
▪ But police also said that most unsolved female murders are not the result of domestic violence.
▪ Violence victims face homelessness Social workers need more training in housing legislation to protect victims of domestic violence being made homeless.
▪ And about 10 percent of women were killed by other relatives, another form of domestic violence.
▪ Hearing that women in other countries were organizing against domestic violence, it appealed to the Government for help.
▪ From now on, all domestic violence cases will be followed by the same team of prosecutors through every court appearance.
▪ The campaign will be followed by a three-year £ 14m drive aimed at ensuring that everybody is aware of domestic violence.
▪ Of 4, 767 domestic violence cases, only 11 percent resulted in conviction.
work
▪ However domestic work is also not like paid work, especially factory employment, in a number of respects.
▪ It has also been argued that changes in patterns of work may alter the balance of domestic work.
▪ Some forms of extended domestic work, particularly lodging-house keeping, also declined during the inter-war period.
▪ They demanded child-care provisions and greater cooperation from men in domestic work.
▪ She travels to Copacabana for domestic work.
▪ The engineers are not cavalier in their attitude towards the women they employ to do part of their domestic work and childcare.
▪ One of his most striking findings was that the more a woman was employed the more domestic work was shared.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Domestic problems are affecting his work.
▪ domestic wine
▪ History books do not tell us much about the domestic lives of our ancestors.
▪ I'm worried about Jim - I think he may be having some domestic problems.
▪ It can be difficult for people with domestic responsibilities to work late at night.
▪ Most Americans listed domestic issues as their top priority.
▪ Security on domestic flights in the US has been stepped up considerably.
▪ She likes to keep her domestic life quite separate from her work.
▪ The airline serves mainly domestic routes.
▪ The gas is used for domestic heating and cooking.
▪ The President's speech covered a range of foreign and domestic issues.
▪ The store sells a wide range of domestic appliances.
▪ The women had all experienced some form of domestic violence.
▪ Victims of domestic violence are often reluctant to tell the police.
▪ Volkswagen produce cars both for the domestic market and for export.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He sticks with large, domestic companies that pay high dividends.
▪ Linked to this is the upkeep of military forces and armaments for domestic reasons.
▪ Major international events Volunteering in individual sports includes regularly held events within the domestic calendar of each sport.
▪ Once upon a time the only crime in this neck of the woods was domestic.
▪ She worked with domestic chicks, feeding on rice grains.
▪ Some 90 percent of government debt is financed from domestic savings, leaving little capital spare for stocks.
▪ Unfortunately, most of these efforts were directed towards reducing non-oil imports, which had damaging effects on domestic production.
II.nounEXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For example, in the 1920s there were no civilian domestics at the station-house.
▪ In hospital environments basic services such as cooking and laundry were organized centrally and cleaning was undertaken by domestics.
▪ The exotic appeal of the domestic does not, however, last.
▪ When I went into the house, the domestics refrained from looking at me.