I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
embark on/launch a programme (=start it)
▪ The company has embarked on an expansion programme.
introduce/launch a scheme
▪ The scheme was launched last autumn by the company’s education officer.
launch a boat (=put it in the water)
▪ Where’s the best place to launch the boat?
launch a channel (=start a channel broadcasting on TV)
▪ In 1994, SKY launched two new channels.
launch a competition (=start it)
▪ We’re launching a competition to find the best young designer.
launch a fund (=start it)
▪ They plan to launch an investment fund by raising $40m from investors.
launch a raid (=start a raid)
▪ Rebel forces launched cross-border raids.
launch a website (=start one)
▪ The government has launched a website containing information on environmental issues.
launch an attack
▪ In April the French army launched an attack.
launch pad
▪ Ellington’s band was a launching pad for many gifted jazz musicians.
launched into a tirade
▪ He launched into a tirade against the church.
launched...manhunt
▪ Police have launched a nationwide manhunt.
launch/embark on a career (=start one)
▪ Rita went to New York where she launched her dancing career.
launch/landing/helicopter pad
▪ The hospital has built a helicopter pad.
launch/mount a campaign (=begin a campaign)
▪ They have launched a campaign to end world poverty.
launch/mount a search (=start a search)
▪ A massive search was launched for the former soldier.
launch/set up an inquiry (=start it)
▪ Police launched an inquiry yesterday after a man was killed by a patrol car.
make/issue/launch an appeal
▪ Detectives are making an urgent appeal for information.
▪ The hospital has launched an appeal to raise money for new equipment.
mount/launch an expedition (=plan, organize, and begin an expedition)
▪ Ornithologists are mounting an expedition to the island in order to study the birds.
offensive...launched
▪ A major offensive was launched on August 22.
officially launched
▪ The scheme was officially launched in May.
rocket...launched
▪ The rocket was launched from a space research base.
stage/mount/launch a coup (=attempt one)
▪ Later that year, the rebels staged an unsuccessful coup.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
yesterday
▪ The scheme, launched yesterday, is expected to provide each participating chemical firm with around £5 million to meet claims.
▪ Divers alert: A major rescue operation was launched yesterday after two divers were reported missing off Redcar.
▪ A £5m development appeal launched yesterday by the Natural History Museum has already raised £2.5m.
■ NOUN
appeal
▪ Victor Hall has launched his annual appeal for information regarding his son's disappearance.
▪ They've launched an appeal to send canned food, medicine and toys to the needy.
▪ But the Official Solicitor immediately launched an appeal.
▪ He now has 28 days to leave, or launch an appeal against the decision.
▪ Some of Opera North's favourite soloists, including John Tomlinson, will help to launch the appeal in style.
▪ We have launched a public appeal to raise the £120,000 total needed in order to put this whole unpleasant episode behind us.
▪ The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds launched the appeal to help buy and manage the 625acre island.
▪ Teesside Hospice Care Foundation is to launch a £1.8m. building appeal.
assault
▪ Repealers launched a double-edged assault on medics.
▪ Thirty policemen were massacred in Rukum last week when the rebels launched a direct assault on their heavily fortified headquarters.
▪ Republican Congressional leaders have launched a rhetorical assault against the Clinton proposal this week.
▪ They launched their assaults with the equally traditional use of overwhelming firepower.
▪ The main central banks exploited yesterday's thin market to launch another visible assault on the dollar.
▪ Then he launched an assault on his Moscow neighbour.
▪ Much to their credit in launching a spirited assault on the Neath lead, Bridgend did attempt to spread the ball wide.
attack
▪ He decided to launch his attack right away, while the other man's night vision was still impaired.
▪ A Colonel Herbinger, drunk at the time, thought in his stupor that the enemy had launched a massive attack.
▪ Such a strategy is dangerous since inviting Kasparov to overreach, may also invite him to launch a devastating attack.
▪ There had been some disturbance there, too, when their master launched his attack.
▪ Henman bounced the ball a couple of times, measured the other side of the net, and launched his attack.
▪ In response, the country launched an all-out attack on Freetown from Lungi airport on the outskirts of the city.
▪ Lord Lane also launched a strong attack on the crisis in the crown and county courts.
bid
▪ It has also launched a bid to overturn a ban on the use of vast factory whaling ships.
▪ Edinburgh-based Dragon launched the all-paper bid for its rival Far Eastern trust last month.
business
▪ Conran had launched a business empire that was eventually to employ thirty-three thousand people.
▪ By making a Big Promise and delivering on it, you will successfully launch your business.
▪ Hyatt Hotels has helped employees launch in-dependent businesses in party catering and sporting-equipment rental.
campaign
▪ With backing from Prince Charles, who was once treated at the hospital for a cut hand, a campaign was launched.
▪ State prisoners were brought in to fix the roadbed, and a campaign was launched to acquire locomotives and coaches.
▪ Alexei features in a 20minute video bought by the borough council for a major anti-vandalism campaign to be launched early next year.
▪ On 17 February the campaign was launched with a press conference and a display of posters, T-shirts and other merchandise.
▪ The Government's £1.3m Christmas anti-drink drive campaign was launched last week with a brutal advert.
career
▪ Good for Annabel, who had the sense to quit the circuit in good time and launch a successful new career.
▪ In the 1960s women could neither engage in business nor launch political careers.
▪ He launched his tennis career in 1923 as a ball boy.
▪ Jack launched his accounting career at a tuna packing company, then went to work for General Dynamics.
▪ Matt now lives in Los Angeles, where he is trying to launch a solo career.
▪ By the early 1760s he lived in Derby and had launched a career as a cartographer.
▪ The smile that launched a career Fans of television presenter Michaela Strachan love her famous cheeky grin.
▪ He then moved to Oxford Polytechnic before launching his army career at Sandhurst.
challenge
▪ Provided your employer acts reasonably, you will find it difficult to launch an effective legal challenge of his decision.
company
▪ The company has launched 39 satellites so far.
▪ The machines are made by a London company, which launched the world's first microprocessor-based sorter in 1979.
▪ The company launched its initial offering at 13 in July and closed at $ 10 a share Wednesday, down.
▪ It also assigned staff people to work with individual companies that wanted to launch a program.
▪ Dozens of other companies are preparing to launch gambling sites on the Web.
competition
▪ It has also launched a competition for young members to design slogans suitable for texting.
▪ Her parents launched the competition to train young people about the dangers of motor vehicles.
▪ Now it has launched a series of competitions to select the best ways of filling the gaps in Britain's armoury.
drive
▪ Members needed: Darlington branch of the Friends of the Earth has launched a recruitment drive.
▪ That announcement came as the Reform Party officially launched its own petition drive to win Texas ballot access in November.
▪ Sony launched a similar drive at the same time.
effort
▪ Meanwhile, the events of July 17-18 motivated a number of Arab leaders to launch mediation efforts.
government
▪ Today the government launched its latest weapons in a campaign against speeding including this hard hitting television advertisement.
▪ In 1989 the government launched a £10 million training programme in child protection.
▪ In 1981 a £30 million government scheme was launched to encourage industry to switch from oil and gas to coal-fired boilers.
▪ The Government have launched TECs, but they have then provided less funding than was envisaged.
▪ The government today launched a drug prevention campaign.
▪ He has criticised the Government for not launching an advertising campaign on the issue until the general election is called.
initiative
▪ Working partnerships forged at home have provided a good springboard for launching several initiatives with partners abroad.
▪ So in 1990, School &038; Main launched an ambitious initiative to improve college retention rates for young people called Higher Ground.
▪ Instead, as part of our Millennium programme, we will launch a London 2000 initiative.
▪ We will launch a London 2000 initiative.
▪ Read in studio Police have launched a new initiative to tackle a rising wave of crime.
▪ The programme comes on the day police launched a new initiative to prevent such large gatherings taking place.
inquiry
▪ The Justice Department has launched a broader inquiry into the alleged solicitation of foreign donors by the Democrats, particularly Huang.
▪ He then launched an inquiry into why she was granted Legal Aid.
▪ The government has launched an official inquiry into his alleged ill-treatment but no findings have been made public.
▪ Yesterday, teams of police and forensic experts launched a massive inquiry to find the mindless yobs.
▪ Governor Peter Leonard, who launched an inquiry yesterday, said only prompt action by staff prevented a violent free-for-all.
▪ It has decided to launch an independent inquiry, to see whether more could have been done to help him.
▪ Police say they haven't launched a murder inquiry at this stage.
investigation
▪ The complaints prompted three different agencies to launch investigations.
▪ The Civil Aviation Authority has launched an investigation and will look at the pilots reports.
▪ The agency has launched 340 criminal investigations against tax resisters since 1993, winning 162 convictions.
▪ It's launched an investigation into what went wrong last night.
▪ Police have launched an investigation and they're appealing for witnesses.
▪ With police help they impounded several of Wewe's boats full of turtles and launched an investigation.
▪ At the time Thornburgh denied the report and launched a controversial investigation into the source of the leak.
magazine
▪ Brand picked up the term and launched a magazine called CoEvolution Quarterly.
▪ And the Robert Maxwell empire was just about to launch a new magazine called World Development.
▪ But she realized she needed at least $ 5 million to launch a high-quality national magazine.
▪ Bailey, 37, helped launch the magazine in Great Britain in 1988.
▪ And I was thrilled and honoured to get the chance to help launch this magazine.
▪ A new Moneysavers magazine containing discount coupons to use in shops is to be launched.
missile
▪ She saw herself pull back her arm, and, with more than human strength, launch a red missile.
▪ Hekmatyar's fighters quickly joined the fray, launching long-range missile attacks into the city against Masud's forces.
▪ Could a computer failure automatically launch a nuclear missile?
▪ The aircraft would be able to launch the missiles at a considerable distance from well-defended targets.
▪ In theory, the mechanism should also prevent anyone launching the missiles accidentally.
offensive
▪ In the last week of February, Etiopia finally launched a major offensive at Badme.
▪ On March 30, 1972, Hanoi launched its own major offensive across the demilitarized zone.
▪ At the same time it launched an ideological offensive launched to justify this approach to solving the crisis.
operation
▪ In 1992 police launched Operation Playground against a gang called the Vice Lords.
▪ In May, police launched Operation Park, increasing patrols of city parks and playgrounds that have become makeshift campgrounds.
▪ Labour officials have already launched Operation Turnout in an effort to galvanise the core vote.
▪ The planter rested on thick beige carpeting that helped deaden the bone-shaking noise of aircraft launching and recovery operations.
▪ The army was ordered last week to launch a formal operation against separatists in Aceh.
▪ The Chief Constable was also asked to launch a major operation in Wirral to crack down on suppliers.
▪ Cheshire's emergency services launched their Operation Cloudburst procedure for dealing with chemical emergencies.
plan
▪ A better plan would be to launch from Earth on a trajectory optimized for transfer to Mars.
▪ The moving of 1,200 posts completes a plan launched when Harold Macmillan was prime minister in 1959.
▪ And a new plan has been launched to protect it.
product
▪ Zeneca has launched no new products since 1989.
▪ An entrepreneur we interviewed was given the opportunity to launch a new product for a major international company.
▪ Are you launching a new product?
▪ It was as though he had created a virtual company for a specific time period to launch that particular product.
▪ Over the past 18 months we have launched a number of products offering opportunities for existing customers.
▪ Growing competition is prompting banks, building societies and insurers to launch new financial products almost on a daily basis.
▪ The immediate aim is to launch at least five such products on the market within two years.
▪ A decision has to be made whether or not to launch the new product.
programme
▪ The government has announced that it is planning to launch a training programme for all food handlers.
▪ There was no real enthusiasm and we launched in the training programme in a rather unstructured way.
▪ In the coming year we are launching a comprehensive sponsorship programme to attract corporate donations and specific sponsorship.
▪ Lloyd George had launched his programme at a lecture delivered at Bangor on 17 January 1935.
▪ Yesterday Mr Stevens launched a programme to canvas local opinion about the transfer of management.
▪ It hopes to be able to launch its programme by mid-November.
▪ Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme.
project
▪ To begin with, her department is launching a three-year project on residential child care.
▪ They had hoped that he would launch great public works projects, ge! a building boom going.
▪ Viscose rayon producer Courtaulds Fibers has launched the project at its plant in Mobile, Alabama.
▪ It was agreed that this might best be achieved by a series of dinners to launch development projects of the University.
range
▪ Reader enquiry number 134 Downlighters Designed Architectural Lighting has launched a new range of 14 downlighters.
▪ With nature in mind, Inecto Botanicals have launched an affordable range of shampoos and conditioners.
▪ Four titles launch a new range.
▪ It's just launched its first range of clothing.
▪ We are using increasing amounts of recycled paper and we plan to launch a range of recycled paper products.
▪ Two years ago International targeted commercial fishing fleets as a special market and launched the BlueLine range with coatings made at Houston.
▪ Heraeus has launched a new range of modular temperature and climatic cabinets.
rocket
▪ The mujaheddin had launched a fresh rocket offensive against the city on Feb. 26.
▪ Such a mission would launch a huge rocket, the upper stage of which would fly directly to the Moon.
▪ Or in a room with computerized controls set to launch rockets.
▪ They could launch their rockets before you could get to your office, his predecessor had warned him.
satellite
▪ Eumetsat would launch three satellites over eight years for £250 million.
▪ The company has launched 39 satellites so far.
▪ First, it could hold up Challenger's next attempt to launch a relay satellite, in August.
▪ Hughes has launched two Ku-band satellites each containing sixteen 120-watt transponders.
▪ They did a full survey to begin with, launching several satellites to encircle the planet, collecting atmospheric and geographic data.
▪ A half-dozen giants are bidding for the right to launch satellites that can pump streams of data directly into homes.
▪ For instance, they could launch technically more advanced satellites and devise market-orientated ways of selling the data around the world.
▪ Malerba was on last month's Atlantis shuttle flight which failed to launch a satellite to produce electricity.
scheme
▪ He's launched a scheme which gives these farmers access to modern farm machinery and he teaches them how to use it.
▪ The Newcastle has launched a two-year scheme at 10.45 percent.
▪ Their kindness and co-operation has allowed us to launch this exciting new scheme for the benefit of residents and visitors to Northamptonshire.
▪ Difficulty is being expressed with the method to be used to launch the scheme.
▪ Even if they launch a new pension scheme with less generous benefits they face maintaining the solvency of the old fund.
▪ Today the Lord Mayor launched a new scheme to help them.
▪ By launching the commercial scheme in the guise of an athletic club it falls within the rules of the Amateur Athletic Association.
search
▪ Theatres, cinemas and restaurants in the area were also evacuated as police launched a frantic search and found the B-registration van.
▪ At the same time, materials scientists launch an extensive search for other materials that might have similar effects.
▪ Police backed by a helicopter launched a search, but no arrests were reported.
▪ And perhaps he wasn't going to wait until morning before launching a search.
series
▪ A fifty-minute programme about green slime to launch a series that is going to take thirteen hours?
▪ Pleased with the success of reforms in the countryside, he launched a new series of urban economic reforms.
▪ Now it has launched a series of competitions to select the best ways of filling the gaps in Britain's armoury.
strike
▪ From Bourges Capetian forces could launch a quick strike against Tours and Poitiers.
version
▪ Thomson launched their slightly up-market version, Freestyle, in 1984.
▪ The most popular option is the DOS-based WordPerfect system which has launched version 6.0, being the first significant enhancement since 5.1.
▪ AimTech is planning to launch a revamped version of the system in April.
▪ At the end of last month the company launched a commercial version of the chip.
▪ The two health authorities covering these areas have launched their versions of the Patient's Charter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ China is planning to launch a space rocket later this month.
▪ Fezza, the clothes designer, launched his first collection in 1980.
▪ Fiat launched a tiny "city car" especially for Europe's narrow, crowded streets.
▪ Fiat has launched the smaller car model for city driving.
▪ NASA will try to launch the space shuttle again on Sunday.
▪ On the first day of the war over 400 missiles were launched.
▪ Police are launching a major murder inquiry.
▪ Rebel forces launched an attack on the capital.
▪ Rebels launched another attack late Sunday.
▪ The book launched his career as a novelist.
▪ The local hospital has launched a campaign to raise money for new X-ray equipment.
▪ Wysling has launched a campaign to raise $7000 to restore the monument.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A high-technology corporation, for example, might launch a subsidiary to manufacture components for major systems produced by the parent.
▪ Giddy from their wartime success, the Communists launched an ambitious plan aimed at expanding the economy by 14 percent a year.
▪ I positioned myself immediately below him, took a couple of practice aims and then launched my training shoe upwards.
▪ Modifying current equipment enables them to minimise new capital outlay while the product is being launched and its success evaluated.
▪ Mr Major says he has gathered enough support to launch an attack.
▪ Of five landing missions launched in 1965, all five failed.
▪ Read in studio Police have launched a new initiative to tackle a rising wave of crime.
▪ The most popular option is the DOS-based WordPerfect system which has launched version 6.0, being the first significant enhancement since 5.1.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
commercial
▪ It is aiming for more widespread testing in April and a commercial launch in May, sources said.
▪ Finally, it is essential to develop more cost-effective rockets in an increasingly competitive international market for commercial and scientific launch services.
new
▪ The other new launches planned were Sunday Today and Sunday Sport - neither aimed at the same sort of readers.
▪ Sad to say, major new launches from the big boys are a little thin on the ground.
▪ Vauxhall can be expected to start a flurry of limited-edition Astras in the lead-up to the new model's launch in September.
▪ The flurry involved further new launches.
▪ Meanwhile, Westminster Press and Associated slightly enlarged their chains, partly, as with Thomson, by new launches.
▪ We are still optimistic about further growth during the year with a number of new product launches planned in the coming months.
▪ Considerable investment has also been made in Emap sponsored new launches.
▪ It is expected that these new launches will, in time, be significant contributors to the profit growth of this business.
official
▪ L6 is almost certain to be delayed until well after its official launch date in May.
▪ And we've got an exclusive picture of it-a week before the official launch shots.
ready
▪ As an example take the case of a new product that has been developed and is ready for launch.
▪ Customers now expect to have a satellite finished and ready for launch in no more than a year and a half.
▪ Are you ready for a launch failure?
▪ The tail need not be fitted for this test, but now's the time to attach it ready for the launch.
successful
▪ The successful launch of Channel 5 as a non-producer broadcaster demonstrates the growth potential of the market.
■ NOUN
pad
▪ Each of the Apollo launch pads was 0.65 square kilometres in size and constructed of heavily reinforced concrete.
▪ Atlantis, resting on a Kennedy Space Center launch pad in Florida, has similar boosters.
▪ Neighbours, the show that was her launch pad, might have to be jettisoned.
▪ The rocket was exposed to the vagaries of the weather, and the launch pad was blocked for long periods of time.
▪ But there are signs that the protest may be the launch pad for a powerful and broadly based opposition.
▪ However, the rocket was not allowed to leave the launch pad until full thrust was developed by each engine.
▪ Here the air-lock doors of a cargo bay; there a communications nacelle, a launch pad, a service hatch.
▪ The crawler, mobile launchers and launch pads are all modified versions of the original components used for Apollo.
product
▪ But how important is another domestic product launch in 1992?
▪ The last major product launch two years ago really solidified a couple of new markets for us.
▪ We are still optimistic about further growth during the year with a number of new product launches planned in the coming months.
▪ First, we got the marketing team together to review, in detail, our last major product launch.
▪ Not all the losses resulting from a delayed product launch are concerned with that product.
▪ He has worked full time as a magician and illusionist since 1998, entertaining primarily at corporate retreats and product launches.
site
▪ However, weather conditions were ideal on the day of the launch, says Cathey, who is at the launch site.
▪ The choice of splashdown into the ocean rather than a land-based return was forced by the geographic position of the launch site.
▪ This was especially important during the climb up the 5 slope to the launch site.
▪ The leak forced a controlled descent of the giant balloon about 250 kilometres to the west of the launch site.
▪ Previous errors have included a sheep dip targeted after it was mistaken for a surface-to-air missile launch site.
vehicle
▪ The single-stage, reusable launch vehicle will cost an estimated $ 5 billion to $ 10 billion.
▪ But such economic considerations have had no significant effect on the way government-run launch vehicles are designed and operated.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ During the launch, two rockets boost the shuttle before separating and falling back into the sea.
▪ the launch of nuclear weapons
▪ the West Coast launch of his new cologne
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Since its launch in 1988, sales of OS/2 have grown to only about 300,000 a year.
▪ The launch of the research centre is slated for December.