verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
facilitate communication (=make it easier)
▪ Computers have facilitated global communication.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ It would also facilitate the devolution of power to the regions.
▪ E-commerce also facilitates sales force automation by enabling salespeople to carry product and reference information in one portable device.
▪ But it will also facilitate the growth of m-commerce for new and old business alike.
▪ In open country, trees becomes sites for breeding colonies which may also facilitate synchronization of breeding.
▪ It would also facilitate reflex defecation and predispose to faecal incontinence.
▪ The sticky nature of the outer shell may also facilitate passive spread of eggs.
▪ It might also facilitate some participants progressing from Regional to National Schools in certain sports.
greatly
▪ The process of communication is greatly facilitated.
▪ This would greatly facilitate the treatment of genetically complex tumours like colorectal cancer.
▪ This would be greatly facilitated by moving the work of this office into the Inverleith Row premises.
▪ Sensitive intervention of this kind is greatly facilitated in classrooms where group discussion approaches are used.
▪ Perhaps most importantly, the computer interface greatly facilitates both obtaining and recording a complete medical history.
▪ Such contracts are widely used in large scale commercial operations and may greatly facilitate commercial activity.
▪ The first oil crisis created particular concern in this respect, but the development of the Euro-currency market greatly facilitated the process.
▪ Modern technology greatly facilitates the recall and display of material held centrally.
thus
▪ Money thus facilitates trade and specialisation, two key conditions for the economic advancement of any society or nation.
▪ It should help us to communicate and spread experience, feelings, understandings and ideas and thus facilitate action.
▪ Problem factoring is the rationale for organization; organization permits factoring and thus facilitates the management of problems.
■ NOUN
access
▪ Officially launched in January, it aims to facilitate access to the council's community services.
▪ A more fundamental criticism is the requirement that databases should facilitate unplanned access as well as planned retrieval to the database.
▪ Perhaps what is needed is more knowledge about what exists already and some sort of in-school organisation that facilitates access.
activity
▪ Functions and Dysfunctions Law facilitates commercial activity by providing structures within which it can take place.
▪ A third area where law has facilitated commercial activity is dispute settlement.
▪ At a second level, law functions to facilitate commercial activity through particular doctrines.
▪ Such contracts are widely used in large scale commercial operations and may greatly facilitate commercial activity.
change
▪ Sure, more money is better than less if properly employed to facilitate change.
▪ In this situation, new information technologies represent a vast potential for understanding and facilitating necessary change within an organisation.
▪ In the National Health Service the control over funding also facilitates policy change from the centre.
communication
▪ Given the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, participants are encouraged to design their presentations to facilitate cross-disciplinary communication.
▪ The counsellor may be able to facilitate communication between the couple that has not been possible at home.
▪ A simple problem-orientated method of assessment can facilitate both management and communication between start members.
▪ The intention is to facilitate better communication and a greater sense of ownership and sharing.
▪ The problem list facilitates communication among staff members and helps clearly identify exactly who has agreed to do what and when.
▪ Contracting may be effective because it makes evasion difficult, facilitates communication, and offers rewards to the patient.
▪ Diagnosis may facilitate communication among professionals in obtaining an appropriate placement for a child.
▪ Synapses, minute gaps between neurones where one neurone receives signals from another, also facilitate nerve cell communication.
development
▪ Microcredit institutions or non-conventional NGOs could help facilitate local development when government or private-sector actors were lacking.
▪ The mishaps that befall Van Orton seem more random and jarring, though, than cohesively engineered to facilitate his spiritual development.
▪ The already over-stretched funds can not deal with serious infrastructure solutions to facilitate the development of flood plains.
▪ This helps develop expertise, resources, and competition in the private sector and so facilitates the development of commercial services.
▪ The aim was to facilitate the development of schools which would be attended by pupils of different faiths.
▪ Bodybuilders use mental imaging to facilitate their physical development.
▪ There is a different form of automatic teaching device called a pacing machine which can facilitate the development of motor skills.
▪ Piaget identified social interaction as one of the major variables that facilitate cognitive development.
exchange
▪ The importance to historians of encoding standards that will facilitate data exchange can not be overstated.
▪ Guests take advantage of local transportation in order to facilitate cultural exchanges.
▪ To facilitate the exchange of goods and services both externally, among nations and internally, within a nation.
▪ The Internet international computer network system could facilitate efficient exchange of information.
▪ How can we support the development of encoding standards which will facilitate data exchange?
▪ However, few existing applications facilitate the exchange of messages or data directly with mobile workers.
▪ It enables a price system to operate and facilitates the production and exchange of goods.
▪ Good mediators facilitate the necessary exchange of information and help both parties pinpoint key questions to take to their legal advisers.
flow
▪ This arrangement would facilitate indication of flow and could be used to identify the areas in which sprinkler heads were in operation.
growth
▪ But it will also facilitate the growth of m-commerce for new and old business alike.
▪ As the volume of Treasury bills declined in the 1970s the discount houses facilitated the rapid growth in the commercial bill market.
▪ Charles Robins believes UnixWare will facilitate the growth of Unix in commercial accounts because of its ease of use and integration with NetWare.
information
▪ The best intervention is that which is facilitated by information which places the remedy in the customer's own hands.
▪ The Internet international computer network system could facilitate efficient exchange of information.
learning
▪ A student assistant could help with this. 2 To facilitate learning of student names, alphabetical seating arrangements might be desirable.
▪ Job rotation also facilitates this learning.
▪ Its layout reflects the mechanical limitations of early typewriters and as such hardly constitutes an intuitive ordering that would facilitate rapid learning.
▪ She had the skill, courage and creativity to facilitate the learning process of these pupils.
management
▪ The advantage of a Loans Fund is that it facilitates the authority's management of debt.
▪ Obtaining information about tests performed and treatments tried may facilitate further work-up and management.
▪ A simple problem-orientated method of assessment can facilitate both management and communication between start members.
▪ A new warehouse has been constructed to facilitate the management of valve stocks.
▪ At best, management fashions can facilitate effective profit management.
▪ Problem factoring is the rationale for organization; organization permits factoring and thus facilitates the management of problems.
movement
▪ The countryside has been buried under layers of concrete to facilitate its movement in ever greater numbers.
▪ The second factor was the need for selecting a date when there would be adequate moon-light to facilitate night movements.
▪ The rear leg acts like a springboard, tensing the back foot outwards and facilitating a fast forward movement.
▪ Witness what happened recently to the businesses along Hayes Street when a tow-away zone was instituted to facilitate the movement of cars.
▪ They also facilitated the movement of perishable dead meat quite long distances.
▪ Hands-on experiences require classroom arrangements that facilitate movement, group work, and varied activities.
order
▪ Guests take advantage of local transportation in order to facilitate cultural exchanges.
▪ In order to facilitate visual connections we have limited the range of topics or genres in each chapter.
▪ I felt a thump against my abdomen and it became necessary to double over in order to facilitate breathing.
process
▪ Cheque guarantee cards facilitate the process.
▪ Comprehensive health insurance and universal access to health care has the potential to facilitate this process and improve surveillance.
▪ A developing grasp of speech will facilitate the process.
▪ We are facilitating the grieving process.
▪ The rapidly expanding capabilities of information technology would facilitate the process.
▪ He was known for facilitating the process whereby tumor markers, or lab tests for tumors, were brought into the marketplace.
▪ Professional roles in offering support both directly and indirectly through other helpers will remain important in facilitating this process of accessing opportunities.
▪ A catalyst facilitates a chemical process without being used up or changed itself.
removal
▪ Flaps were to be left in the down position to facilitate the removal of mud and other debris prior to their retraction.
▪ This will facilitate the removal of surplus glue or spills.
▪ This is sometimes used in mechanised cleaning where a cold water rinse can facilitate the removal of detergent from a system.
structure
▪ Rapid changes in the occupational structure, facilitated by educational expansion, have increased the overall chances of entering higher-ranking occupations.
▪ In contrast, a decentralized structure facilitates leadership and unleashes creativity.
▪ Within the constraints and limitations of the ward, the teacher can arrange and structure teaching to facilitate learning.
system
▪ It involves the development of a system to facilitate the description and analysis of the interview process.
▪ The Internet international computer network system could facilitate efficient exchange of information.
▪ It enables a price system to operate and facilitates the production and exchange of goods.
▪ But with it came the recognition that the ability of the system to facilitate this process is limited.
▪ That all new slides be transferred to modern storage systems to facilitate easy retrieval. 4.
transfer
▪ Near facilitates the rapid transfer of information about attacks on academics and academic freedom on a global basis.
▪ Many course combinations are possible during the first three years, facilitating transfer between these three streams.
▪ Organized stock exchanges facilitate the transfer of securities among buyers and sellers.
▪ Bankers do not make it easier for them to do so by, for example, facilitating the transfer of standing payment orders.
use
▪ Such techniques no longer even need radioactively labelled probes, which will facilitate their routine use in laboratories.
▪ The higher flame temperature might facilitate the use of normal Pulverized coal sizes.
▪ This created a more active market in foreign exchange and facilitated the use of the US$ for financing balance of payments purposes.
▪ Some of the saucers at this time had ring handles, either flat or shell-shaped, to facilitate their use.
work
▪ The government was, he said, prepared to facilitate and fund the work of researchers into the matter.
▪ All of these rooms are physically arranged to facilitate group work.
▪ It appears to be designed to facilitate such collective work.
▪ Hands-on experiences require classroom arrangements that facilitate movement, group work, and varied activities.
▪ This would be greatly facilitated by moving the work of this office into the Inverleith Row premises.
▪ He facilitates his people's work rather than authorizes it.
■ VERB
design
▪ Given the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, participants are encouraged to design their presentations to facilitate cross-disciplinary communication.
▪ First, some of the economic functions of government are designed to strengthen and facilitate the operation of the market system.
▪ Various software packages have been designed in order to facilitate the storage and analysis of materials such as interview transcripts and fieldnotes.
▪ It appears to be designed to facilitate such collective work.
help
▪ Microcredit institutions or non-conventional NGOs could help facilitate local development when government or private-sector actors were lacking.
▪ The Pueblo Gardens Credit Union is a unique neighborhood-based effort to help facilitate small loans to those with little capital.
▪ Actuaries are helping to facilitate these discussions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Both centers are electronically linked to facilitate communication.
▪ Dividing students into small groups usually helps facilitate discussion.
▪ Legislation is urgently needed to facilitate police counterterrorist operations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bodybuilders use mental imaging to facilitate their physical development.
▪ Internal representation and language development facilitate the development of truly social behavior and spark social learning.
▪ Manufacturers would be required to maintain dossiers in a standard format on each product, a measure designed to facilitate safety checks.
▪ Piaget identified social interaction as one of the major variables that facilitate cognitive development.
▪ The government was, he said, prepared to facilitate and fund the work of researchers into the matter.
▪ The managers research, collect, and maintain special education materials and facilitate their distribution within a region.