verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/encouraging response (=when people like something or show interest)
▪ We’ve had a good response from the public.
a good/positive/encouraging/hopeful sign
▪ If she can move her legs, that’s a good sign.
encourage exports (=make them more likely to exist)
▪ Kenya used subsidies to encourage exports.
encourage/promote cooperation (=make people want to work together)
▪ The programme will promote cooperation between universities and industry.
encourage/promote diversity (=make it more likely to exist)
▪ Creating a pond in your garden encourages wildlife diversity.
stimulate/encourage investment
▪ The government has cut taxes in order to stimulate investment.
stimulate/encourage/promote growth
▪ Greater government spending may stimulate economic growth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
actively
▪ This means they must actively encourage a more selective approach to custodial remand and sentencing.
▪ I come from a family where blood feuds are not only tolerated, but actively encouraged.
▪ Neighbouring schools may actively encourage difficult and demanding families to seek somewhere else for the education of their children.
▪ Is it responsible to be actively encouraging gay men to use a product that is untested?
▪ Sister Guadalupe, nun, June 1983 Right from the beginning, we have actively encouraged women's incorporation.
▪ Cold-calling, at one licensed dealer, when the salesmen got desperate, was just not tolerated, it was actively encouraged.
▪ Headway Pre-Intermediate invites students to think about how they learn, and actively encourages good study habits.
▪ The university actively encourages the entrepreneurs.
also
▪ They are also encouraged to make connections between medical and scientific advances and changes in human society.
▪ Leaders also encourage creativity when they take the sting out of failure.
▪ Whitefly also encourage aphids which feed off the sugary deposits.
▪ The sickly, overheated corporate environment also encourages a kind of meeting mindlessness.
▪ Merton's thesis was that a godly involvement in the affairs of the world would also encourage the growth of science.
▪ Bufkins also encouraged the managers to visit their engineers on-site more often and attend more meetings.
▪ The policy review was also encouraged by hints of a Soviet willingness to negotiate.
▪ Psychiatrists also encourage self-stripping on the part of their patients.
■ NOUN
child
▪ We also need to encourage children to use their imaginations in science lessons.
▪ It does moral damage by encouraging prejudice within children regardless of their color.
▪ Landlessness was also seen as an element of poverty and encouraged large families so that children could earn and remit wages.
▪ Charles Booth argued, probably correctly, that old age pensions would encourage children to take in elderly parents.
▪ Because men have been taught to value independence, they betray no one by encouraging it in their children.
▪ Reading and spelling accuracy is encouraged as the child copies one of these program listings.
development
▪ And fourthly, subsidies and loans help provide finance to encourage development.
▪ Since we last met, there have been further encouraging developments.
▪ A great deal can be done by government to help and encourage such development.
▪ It provided finance, ensured protection and, on occasion, encouraged technological development.
▪ The university authorities encouraged this novel development and three students were eventually elected to the county congress.
▪ Various devices were used to encourage the development of separate identities between the two groups.
▪ Growth promoters will encourage root development and tiller survival.
government
▪ But clearly governments were ready to encourage innovatory thinking.
▪ There is clearly a fine line between stifling government intervention and encouraging creativity and innovation.
▪ A great deal can be done by government to help and encourage such development.
▪ Normal government budgets encourage managers to waste money.
▪ By selecting Tadchester as one of the new Development Zones the government plans to encourage new industry in the area.
▪ Whenever the flow of emigrants slowed, the government in Lisbon encouraged it again.
▪ Margaret Thatcher's governments encouraged the old nationalised industries to sell derelict sites which retailers snapped up for building superstores.
growth
▪ The introduction of psephology encouraged the growth of opinion polls as a guide to voting trends.
▪ Light to moderate pruning after a period of bloom encourages bushy new growth.
▪ It involves cutting down the main trunk to encourage new growth from the edge of the stump.
▪ The second hazard is that old bugaboo, moisture, encouraging mildew growth and eventual decay.
▪ Nitrates contribute to nutrient enrichment which encourages algal growth and blooms.
▪ It recommends that the government reduce spending to encourage growth in private industry to bring about faster rates of economic growth.
▪ Although she enjoys the aesthetic value of wild flowers, her reason for encouraging their widespread growth is principally scientific.
▪ Rationalism of this kind has encouraged the growth of more and more nebulous deism.
investment
▪ If these measures had been designed to encourage investment, or to create jobs, they would at least have restored economic growth.
▪ In this framework, policies that encourage investment are good; policies that make investment less profitable are bad.
▪ Other hoped-for measures include tax breaks for industry to encourage investment and more cash for building projects.
▪ The federal government creates these funny situations with tax breaks to encourage investment.
▪ A series of measures-such as' Competition Credit Controlwere introduced to encourage investment and reduce regulatory controls on private sector investment decisions.
▪ We shall pursue the privatisation programme, and encourage private investment, both domestic and foreign.
▪ It was designed to use preferential interest rates to encourage investment in manufacturing, tourism, mining and agriculture.
member
▪ Please encourage class members to lobby their local councils about cuts in classes, either personally or by petition.
▪ Director Pat Bean encourages members to tape rehearsals and practice at home.
▪ Ideally, market forces alone would be enough to encourage members to assume these various roles.
▪ The political party can encourage or require its members to work together to achieve shared policy goals.
▪ Please do your best to encourage your class members to come along.
▪ Mr Sayer also hinted at moves to encourage other wealthier members of the association to increase their current contributions.
▪ Every store encourages members to raise money for charity which is doubled by the company.
▪ The quiz was held to encourage members of staff to discuss safety issues and seek information.
people
▪ The Profitboss encourages unconventional ways of making profit, encouraging his people to be creative and take initiative.
▪ In the 1870s, after all, when plumpness was in vogue, physicians had encouraged people to gain weight.
▪ The idea was to encourage people to join a union - not ban them if they couldn't.
▪ The same freedom from job limits that unleashes enormous effort also encourages people to overextend themselves.
▪ We know also that police screening encourages people not to report.
▪ Graham also encouraged people to turn away from materialism and instead focus on what he said really matters: the spiritual.
▪ Success would encourage young people to stay in the inner city instead of moving out of the area.
policy
▪ The policy review was also encouraged by hints of a Soviet willingness to negotiate.
▪ In this framework, policies that encourage investment are good; policies that make investment less profitable are bad.
▪ First, is it an ethical investment policy to encourage people to try to have their cake and eat it?
▪ What makes it worse, they say, is that federal policies encourage the layoffs.
▪ The government also pursued policies designed to encourage a commercial ethos in the remaining public enterprises.
▪ If we want to make policy changes that will encourage parents to remain together, we can do so.
▪ Their policy to encourage cycling, not the macho sort but for families, is very progressive.
pupil
▪ It encourages pupils to approach them from angles not considered by other subjects or forms of study in the curriculum.
▪ Traditionally it has meant some form of moral education to encourage pupils to develop attitudes of cooperation and concern for justice.
▪ It encourages creativity and allows pupils to use the language they have learnt in the context of stimulating and relevant projects.
▪ Here we need to encourage pupils to think and express themselves in vivid ways using word pictures.
▪ The teacher has a role in encouraging the pupil to use the aid and in reducing teasing by other pupils.
▪ Teachers should discuss the cogency and clarity of such documents and should encourage pupils to improve them.
▪ To encourage individual pupil use in their non-timetabled school day. 7.
student
▪ Will Compacts encourage students to leave school at sixteen instead of participating in further education?
▪ Some programs also are encouraging students to enter four-year colleges who might not have done so in the past.
▪ In retrospect he criticized one of his old drawing masters for encouraging students to copy from photographs.
▪ In the classroom, cultural analysis encourages students to examine for themselves the underlying assumptions in the texts they are studying.
▪ Schaeffer encouraged teachers and students to take part in cultural sensitivity training workshops.
▪ Criticism of the service side of training should be encouraged so improvements in student learning and patient care can be developed.
▪ Early results from Roosevelt suggest that the pathway focus actually may encourage students to take more, not less, academics.
use
▪ BIndustry spokesmen argue that encouraging widespread use of unconnected phones would lead to mischief and abuse.
▪ The effective use of new power strategies, albeit awkward at first, encourages their use in the future.
▪ More competition encourages the use of modern, efficient aircraft.
▪ This greater bandwidth will encourage the use of capacity-hogging services such as continuous audio and video.
▪ We will encourage more effective use of local sport and leisure facilities through compulsory competitive tendering.
▪ This low sensitivity rate has encouraged the use of instruments to enhance cell exfoliation.
▪ The grammatical system of each language will itself encourage the use of certain devices in preference to others.
■ VERB
design
▪ If these measures had been designed to encourage investment, or to create jobs, they would at least have restored economic growth.
▪ President Clinton Friday endorsed incentives designed to encourage states to move children more quickly from foster-care settings into permanent adoptive homes.
▪ Taxes should be designed to encourage greater effort and levied only when wealth is achieved.
▪ The government last month introduced a package of incentives and tax breaks designed to encourage home and household-goods purchases.
▪ In addition, the Report made a number of other detailed recommendations which were designed to encourage an increase in technological studies.
▪ The limits are designed to encourage fiscal responsibility.
▪ It's a new site designed to encourage women to get online and enjoy their favourite magazine in the process.
▪ Taxation may be designed to encourage the division of estates.
try
▪ Lambeth Council is trying to encourage more homosexual men and women to adopt children or become foster parents.
▪ I try to encourage as much openness and contrary views as possible.
▪ I tried to encourage him to tell me more of his own story.
▪ He had tried to encourage a traditional democracy.
▪ But take courage, and try and encourage your children to talk about their feelings too.
▪ Clinton is trying to encourage employers to hire welfare recipients through tax breaks and subsidies.
▪ The marketer will try to encourage brand loyalty as a means of rendering the purchase process more comfortable and more satisfying.
▪ Counselors try to encourage patients to get into treatment.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(make) encouraging/optimistic etc noises (about sth)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Cigarette machines in the streets will only encourage more teenagers to smoke.
▪ Congress is considering tax breaks to encourage investment.
▪ Damp conditions encourage the growth of the fungus.
▪ Her letters really encouraged me throughout my illness.
▪ Her parents encouraged her to cook and even paid her to make dinner twice a week.
▪ I would never have won if my friends hadn't encouraged me to keep trying.
▪ Patricia encouraged me to apply for the job.
▪ She was always looking for ways to encourage her students.
▪ This insurance plan will be too hard to administer and will encourage fraud.
▪ We want to encourage more children to use the library.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Avoid spraying your plants with pesticides, grow plants that encourage beneficial insects such as carrots, parsley, parsnips and nettles.
▪ But no evidence suggests that she courted danger for her children as she encouraged their freedom.
▪ Is it responsible to be actively encouraging gay men to use a product that is untested?
▪ Likewise we recognize that pre-feminist homemakers were encouraged to stand by, and lie beneath, their men.
▪ The popularity of organised tours visiting the Balearics and the interest of the locals has encouraged the club to expand.
▪ The San Francisco angler with the signature floppy fishing cap encourages tyros not to be intimidated.