verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eliminate a deficit (=completely get rid of it)
▪ His proposals have so far failed to eliminate the deficit.
eliminate a hazard (=get rid of a hazard)
▪ They took steps to eliminate all potential fire hazards.
eliminate risk (=remove risk completely)
▪ You can’t eliminate risk in your life completely.
eliminate the need for sth (also obviate the need for sthformal) (= make something unnecessary)
▪ The new drug treatment eliminates the need for surgery.
remove/eliminate/lift barriers
▪ Will this remove the barriers to change?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
completely
▪ I am not saying that the diet will completely eliminate cellulite but I do believe it will significantly reduce it.
▪ Republicans would completely eliminate income restrictions for participation in IRAs.
▪ Some of these O 3 datasets have been analysed without completely eliminating the dynamical variations related to the quasi-biennial oscillation.
▪ Vomiting does not completely eliminate all food from the stomach.
▪ One way of telling whether a horse has completely eliminated the infection is to take follow-up nasal swabs.
▪ This completely eliminates the problem without wasting any card!
▪ They avoid the expense of large cabinets and wind and vibration problems are completely eliminated.
virtually
▪ The problem is virtually eliminated in commercially grown mussels, by harvesting them before they are five years old.
▪ Countries now routinely providing vitamin A have virtually eliminated vitamin Arelated blindness and death.
▪ A few candidates may virtually eliminate themselves by their hesitancy and you can even consider refusing to continue the interview.
▪ Those are the costs Proposition 186 would virtually eliminate.
▪ For the bureaucracy itself, Marx noted how a Bonapartist regime virtually eliminated the risk of public scrutiny and criticism.
▪ He reacted rather than acted, and that virtually eliminates all of his effectiveness.
▪ Absentee landlords and large concentrations of landholdings were virtually eliminated.
▪ By being able to hand a printer finished artwork the cost of several stages of labour intensive work can be virtually eliminated.
■ NOUN
deduction
▪ Still, concern about home-buying is why Alexander charges that eliminating the mortgage interest deduction would cause a real-estate crash.
▪ In return for simplicity, it would eliminate popular deductions for charitable contributions, state and local taxes and home-mortgage interest.
▪ Some proposals, including Forbes', would eliminate all tax deductions.
deficit
▪ But Clinton showed that hundreds of federal programs will be on a strict diet during the struggle to eliminate the federal deficit.
▪ It had eliminated the large budget deficits of the early 1980s and was in fiscal balance.
▪ But, ah, what might have been, if we did not have this political fixation on reducing or eliminating deficits.
▪ They are divided for months over how to eliminate the budget deficit.
▪ But he has not specified which government programs would be reduced to pay for the tax cuts and eliminate the deficit.
▪ But pressure to eliminate the budget deficit, said Vest, is likely to lead to diminished help from Washington.
▪ Most money managers are convinced President Clinton and congressional Republicans will strike a deal to eliminate the federal budget deficit.
effort
▪ Storage of materials and the effort of mixing are eliminated by using ready-mixed concrete, which is available in two forms.
▪ But efforts to merge or eliminate any of them will run into political problems.
▪ The masks are only the latest in a number of measures in the effort to eliminate deaths by tiger attacks.
▪ It allows a manufacturer to incorporate its suppliers' efforts toward eliminating waste in the upstream portion of the manufacturing cycle.
▪ That effort has already eliminated several hundred administrative jobs in its East Bay divisions.
job
▪ And when that didn't drain off enough cash, yet another assistance plan required the state to eliminate 120,000 jobs.
▪ The Los Angeles Times will close some sections and eliminate 150 editorial jobs.
▪ It will also eliminate 500 jobs through attrition and lay-offs at its Armonk headquarters.
▪ The maker of printing chemicals said it intends to eliminate about 100 jobs, reducing its work force to about 500.
▪ For example, some companies have moved their employees across the country and then eliminated their jobs.
▪ His pledge to halve the deficit over the next four years is largely based on eliminating 100,000 government jobs.
▪ C., Jackson Mills announced it was closing altogether, eliminating nearly 400 jobs.
need
▪ Dedicated to non-man entry sewer repair and maintenance, the Sika-Robot cuts costs by eliminating the need to excavate pipes.
▪ This eliminated the need for costly lines that transmitted power or data.
▪ This also eliminates the need to scroll to find data, which would defeat the purpose of having a command centre.
▪ The soft new mud automatically eliminated the need for plowing and fertilization.
▪ The operation made financial and environmental sense by eliminating the need to use a hazardous waste site.
▪ That eliminated the need for a new check.
▪ Also the possession of a credit card reduces or even eliminates the need to hold precautionary balances for many people.
▪ It does not eliminate the need for saving.
plan
▪ The original plan was to eliminate tariffs on most goods by 2004.
▪ By June 19, one of the geographic split plans may be eliminated.
▪ The new plan would eliminate the mandated middleman and allow retailers to buy directly from suppliers.
▪ Do I have a plan to eliminate it?
position
▪ In 1990, Brezzo eliminated the museum staff position of controller.
▪ He hopes the next council will eliminate the position.
▪ He estimated $ 1.5 million in savings by eliminating the 34 teaching positions.
possibility
▪ This eliminates the possibility of the wrong person being updated, and enables the operator to see if any details are incorrect.
▪ More important, no changes are made in the system to eliminate the possibility of another pilot making the same error.
▪ The bi-word filter eliminated some possibilities but was not good enough to find a single interpretation.
▪ It eliminates all possibilities of revolts and ensures absolute obedience in everything.
▪ On visits to both bureaux, we felt that their working practices eliminate any reasonable possibility of this happening.
▪ That the practice of spiritual marriages can not with any certainty be traced back into the first century eliminates the third possibility.
▪ Prospective students tend to consider the multi-media scheme after eliminating other possibilities.
▪ Too early death, or severe infirmity, or excessive distance could eliminate any possibility of a significant relationship.
problem
▪ This has eliminated the fly problem, and is the strategy that would be used immediately if a fly outbreak occurred again.
▪ By combining long and short strips of two different metals-brass and steel-in one pendulum, Harrison eliminated the problem.
▪ Water cooling eliminates the problem in mainframe computers, but smaller machinery must find an alternative.
▪ Object: To eliminate structural problems without having to reread your document or waste time cutting and pasting paragraphs.
▪ If so, check every document you write for several weeks to correct and ultimately eliminate this problem.
▪ And in his later work the careful dating supplied by Picasso himself eliminates any chronological problem.
▪ This completely eliminates the problem without wasting any card!
program
▪ S.-imposed requirements, most having to do with eliminating programs, cutting staff and slashing budgets.
▪ Most of our leaders assume that the only way to cut spending is to eliminate programs, agencies, and employees.
▪ Since the crashes, the Navy has eliminated a program that allowed navigators, weapons experts and radio officers to become pilots.
▪ Dan Miller, R-Fla., have indicated they will try to eliminate the sugar program.
▪ School principals in Chicago sued to eliminate the reform program that took away their lifetime job security.
▪ Dole has endorsed a California ballot measure that would eliminate affirmative action programs.
risk
▪ A few precautions are advisable to eliminate any risk that may exist in a domestic situation.
▪ This will lower but not eliminate the risk of infection.
▪ In any event, the new regulations can not eliminate the risk to taxi drivers.
▪ Research will never eliminate risk, but it minimizes it.
▪ For the bureaucracy itself, Marx noted how a Bonapartist regime virtually eliminated the risk of public scrutiny and criticism.
▪ In contrast, the engineer's ambition is to control, to organise, to plan and to eliminate risks.
▪ In modern portfolio theory this is defined as the extent to which the construction of the portfolio has eliminated non-market risk.
▪ Nevertheless, it will eliminate the risk of misunderstanding if you and your employer discuss retirement specifically.
system
▪ Of course, no municipal system succeeds in totally eliminating the use of force.
▪ More important, no changes are made in the system to eliminate the possibility of another pilot making the same error.
▪ This system also eliminates the need for expensive electronic amplifiers.
▪ At that time, the quota system would have been eliminated.
tax
▪ A flat tax, which eliminated tax on investment income, might.
▪ A flat tax, he wrote in December 1994, would eliminate taxes on capital gains, dividends, interest and estates.
▪ By eliminating import taxes, or tariffs, and other import restrictions at national borders.
▪ Forbes' platform makes sense in a state on a mission to eliminate the income tax and substantially reduce the property tax.
▪ It would eliminate some of the tax subsidies that benefit corporations.
▪ First, they want to eliminate taxes entirely for people fortunate enough to inherit estates of $ 1 million.
▪ Two years ago the state also eliminated the tax credit cap on research and development.
use
▪ In energy terms, the goal of the autonomous house is to eliminate fossil-fuel use and the associated carbon dioxide emissions.
▪ Congress eliminated the use of supervisory goodwill and capital credits.
▪ Of course, no municipal system succeeds in totally eliminating the use of force.
▪ Projects covered by the deal include effluent treatment works and gas supplies to eliminate the use of brown coal.
▪ Others have all-in-one hook gliders which clip on to the face of the track and eliminate the use of separate curtain hooks.
▪ This need to eliminate the use of nonrenewable fuels follows for two reasons.
▪ Contextual logic may help to eliminate unwanted uses of homographs. 3.
■ VERB
design
▪ Manufacturers, therefore, are being urged to design processes to eliminate direct operator contact.
▪ Meditative techniques were designed to eliminate this struggle, to overcome the duality and to promote a more balanced mental condition.
▪ Medical experiments must, if possible, be designed to eliminate psychological biases in patient and physician.
help
▪ It would also have helped to eliminate contradictions between authors such as the use of incorrect units.
▪ The proposed move could help eliminate a lot of excess beds.
▪ The reduction of fat in the diet helps to eliminate the fat on the body.
▪ They are designed to stimulate the circulation which in turn helps to eliminate the toxins and fatty particles.
▪ The Convention has been instrumental in helping to eliminate the dumping of industrialized countries' hazardous wastes on developing countries.
▪ Contextual logic may help to eliminate unwanted uses of homographs. 3.
reduce
▪ The two reasons for using simulation methods in pilot training are to reduce costs and to eliminate hazards.
▪ The Dole plan is vague as to what programs would be reduced or eliminated to pay for the tax reductions.
▪ There are several general measures that can be taken to reduce or eliminate the problem altogether.
▪ The use of mixes reduces active time by eliminating almost all measuring time and almost all mixing time.
▪ Also the possession of a credit card reduces or even eliminates the need to hold precautionary balances for many people.
▪ But, ah, what might have been, if we did not have this political fixation on reducing or eliminating deficits.
▪ And its innovative user interface features reduce or eliminate the number of steps needed to perform standard spreadsheet operations.
▪ The intended result of such treatment is to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption by producing a negative response to alcohol.
seek
▪ To seek to eliminate it from the environment is impossible; a fact acknowledged by the Minister for Agriculture and his advisers.
▪ Should one seek the causes, eliminate them and so prevent the disease?
▪ What follows is that Toyota, Nissan and the others will seek to eliminate the weaknesses in their overseas production.
▪ Why else should he be seeking to eliminate her past to his own advantage?
try
▪ To try to eliminate this way of thinking is difficult; but we must begin.
▪ They must deal creatively with uncertainty instead of futilely trying to eliminate it.
▪ If there is no improvement, then you should try eliminating all the other suspect foods that you have listed.
▪ Dan Miller, R-Fla., have indicated they will try to eliminate the sugar program.
▪ We would suggest you try a mains filter before getting involved with trying to eliminate radiated r.f.i.
▪ They tried to eliminate all super-natural explanations from their theories of the earth.
▪ Injury center spokeswoman Mary Ann Fenley said the center is not trying to eliminate guns but to make them safer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Advances in medical science have eliminated the need for many patients to spend long periods of time in hospital.
▪ The car maker said it will eliminate 74,000 jobs over the next four years.
▪ The Colts were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.
▪ The dictator eliminated anyone who might be a threat to him.
▪ Traffic police intend to eliminate congestion caused by illegally parked vehicles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Having to live with big risks that can not be eliminated makes living with the little risks of life seem natural.
▪ He supposes that technological process will eliminate the problem of scarcity of resources.
▪ His scheme involves eliminating 100,000 parking places and installing 15,000 parking-meters.
▪ The parents were able to eliminate the intimidating outbursts almost entirely.