noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car manufacturer/maker
▪ He works for the German car manufacturer, Mercedes.
a film maker (=someone who makes films, especially as a director)
▪ He is one of several exciting young film makers.
a policy maker (=someone who decides on what it should be)
▪ Policy makers have not dealt with the issue very effectively.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ Its 25% net margin is bettered in the computer industry only by Intel, the world's biggest micro-processor maker.
▪ Shares of Intel Corp., the biggest microprocessor maker, fell 2 5 / 8 to 55.
▪ Heinz is the biggest own-label soup maker.
▪ Compaq Computer Corp., the biggest personal computer maker, fell 2 1 / 4 to 46.
▪ It tackles the power of the Big Three cider makers and organises regular cider festivals.
▪ Locomotive Co., the biggest truck maker, fell 7 rupees to 368.
large
▪ Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Metals are also large users and makers of robots and other factory automation systems.
▪ A large computer maker came to Professional Secretaries International because it was losing many of its best secretaries.
▪ The world's largest gun maker, Smith &038; Wesson, sensed inevitability.
other
▪ The boom in cider sales means they are now supplying apples to Bulmers and to other makers in Somerset.
▪ If Nissan can do it, why can't other car makers?
▪ What advantages have encouraged Pilkington and other glass makers to continue and expand their industry here?
▪ Although some other stick makers were bigger, this was to become the longest surviving stick manufacturer in the Stroud area.
▪ Nintendo and the other makers could help here.
▪ Mr Garnett expects other makers to follow suit.
▪ Your tutors, Helen Metherell and other professional curtain makers, have many tips to share with you.
▪ But let us look more closely at the other six trouble makers.
■ NOUN
aircraft
▪ The aircraft maker had warned Wall Street earlier this week that it expected the loss because of production problems.
▪ Earlier, Kok said he wanted Daimler-Benz to contribute more to a rescue package for the aircraft maker.
auto
▪ Profits at auto makers and other exporters could be tarnished by a weaker dollar against the yen.
▪ The auto maker said the pact will permit better matching of output and demand.
cabinet
▪ An uncle from Hull, a cabinet maker, visited while they were there.
car
▪ If Nissan can do it, why can't other car makers?
▪ This year it is different, and well worth catching a glimpse of the latest from the world's car makers.
▪ He is going to be the most important car maker since Henry Ford.
▪ Whenever the global economy is doing well, car makers immediately start work on a range of cars for the plutocrats.
▪ In order to make up for falling retail prices, tire makers have been struggling to raise prices to car makers.
▪ The news came on the same day that the car makers Rover announced another year of losses.
chip
▪ Intel, the leading computer chip maker, said first-quarter revenues would be 25 % below the previous quarter.
▪ The chip maker said it expects to report disappointing results for its fiscal third quarter ending Dec. 31.
▪ Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. fell as much as 2 1 / 8 to 30 7 / 8.
cigarette
▪ The Castano settlement marks the first time that a cigarette maker has paid out as a result of smoking-related litigation.
▪ The latest rumors are separate from actual talks between cigarette maker Liggett and state attorneys general.
▪ That pleases the cigarette makers, who invested heavily in his election.
coffee
▪ But government orders have dried up and the factory is struggling now by making vacuum cleaners and coffee makers.
computer
▪ The computer maker warned early this month that its quarterly earnings would be well below analysts' expectations.
▪ A large computer maker came to Professional Secretaries International because it was losing many of its best secretaries.
▪ Crucially, the deal did not bar Mr Gates from selling to other computer makers.
▪ NatWest Securities raised its rating on the computer maker to accumulate from hold.
▪ Compaq Computer Corp., the biggest personal computer maker, fell 2 1 / 4 to 46.
▪ The relatively weak sales that many computer makers experienced in the 1995 Christmas season has caused nervousness in the industry.
▪ At 64, Joyce Kost of Vernon, Conn., is part of a market being targeted by computer makers.
decision
▪ Its prime target is an audience of decision makers whose names you can write down on a single sheet of paper.
▪ The bad news for future job applicants is that there will be more decision makers.
▪ The decision makers don't confide in you.
▪ The group also provides decision makers with information and data and contributes funds to some political candidates.
▪ Between the management conference or decision maker, there was an increasing layer of software intervention.
▪ In addition, such strategies presume that decision makers understand the likely effects of technology development on a local economy.
▪ We can add to this the uncertain environment in which decision makers operate.
▪ In other words, by measuring results, Sunnyvale gives its decision makers the information they need to make intelligent decisions.
drug
▪ Pfizer likes to pair up with other drug makers to bring products to market.
▪ The drug maker also said its 1995 earnings from continuing operations will surpass $ 2. 80 a share.
▪ The drug maker said Congress decided not to grant generic drug makers the right to market their products during the transition.
equipment
▪ It's a universally unpopular idea. Equipment makers say it will stop them being innovative.
▪ The telecommunications equipment maker also said it was named in a shareholder suit over the loss filed in a California court.
▪ Cisco Systems, the world's largest computer network equipment maker, reported better than expected fourth-quarter profits.
▪ He has been in the business for about 14 years and follows aerospace and electrical equipment makers.
▪ It has also been appointed by cleaning equipment maker Karcher.
▪ New York-based Loral is an aerospace and defense equipment maker.
▪ What will it do to the hotel and restaurant business, and to the construction industry and equipment makers that serve it?
▪ Take electrical equipment maker Shinmei Electric, which makes switches for use in pagers and floppy disk drives.
film
▪ Its footage is mainly licensed world-wide to film makers for inclusion in features and documentaries.
▪ Movie companies are understandably uptight about relinquishing control over how products are portrayed by film makers.
▪ For his documentary, Oxford film maker, Richard Stanley looked not only at how Oxfam works, but why it exists.
▪ But this time it's the plane's owners and pilots who've turned film makers.
▪ Voice over It's a chance for the film makers to make the most of the true Oxford experience.
▪ Eventually car chases became a clich, and film makers explored alternative transport in their quest for cinematic thrills.
▪ An initiative to improve the skills of local film makers was also piloted.
▪ The film makers say it shows routine insensitivity to livestock, but experts say they're wrong.
instrument
▪ In 1755 he went to London to train as a mathematical instrument maker.
▪ The choice of materials by instrument makers, however, depends primarily on the local ecosystem.
▪ The instrument maker knows how to choose his materials, and can judge their qualities and defects.
▪ What the instrument maker fashions with his hands, is a direct response to nature, which will he expressed in sound.
▪ Only a particular instrument maker invited to repair the instrument is allowed to work on it.
▪ Arthur had become a professional musical instrument maker.
▪ These trees grow slowly and take decades to reach the maturity, which gives their wood the qualities that instrument makers need.
market
▪ County at that time held 4.9%, County NatWest Securities, its market maker, held 4.43%.
▪ Ivan Lustig, a market maker with Foster Jefferies&038;.
▪ In practice, they are the only important regular market makers and as such collectively constitute the trading core of the market.
▪ Jaguar had a a hectic session, with one market maker briefly quoting 1,200p after seemingly misunderstanding a transatlantic message.
▪ At present an obligated market maker may be encouraged by fee rebates.
▪ A market maker does not have complete control over his portfolio because he is always required to make a market.
▪ However, over three quarters of this business was initiated by market makers and banks rather than on behalf of clients.
opinion
▪ There are leaders and opinion makers on the staff whose power of influence is completely unrelated to their official status.
▪ The policy development process is a superb opportunity for educating key managers and important opinion makers within your organization.
policy
▪ What approach should regulators and policy makers adopt, and on what basis should they decide?
▪ This is difficult if policy makers can use only one method-services produced by their own bureaucracy.
▪ The old system had certain advantages for members, investors, and policy makers.
▪ Its policy makers next meet Feb. 1.
▪ Crime and criminal justice Crime prevention has received increasing recent attention from researchers and policy makers.
▪ But not if policy makers insist on fighting the battles of the past.
▪ Its policy makers will meet Thursday.
programme
▪ The cockroach episode of thirtysomething included a scene that the programme makers also used on the opening credit sequence each week.
▪ The programme makers were so impressed by Sheila's contribution that they featured it as a programme in its own right.
▪ The links between high viewing figures and rose-tinted versions of the past have obviously been identified by the programme makers.
▪ I had not thrown those childhood puppets away, I now realised, nor had the programme makers and commissioning editors.
semiconductor
▪ It claims its semiconductor makers can make money.
▪ Soundview Financial Group intensified the concerns by lowering its investment opinions on four semiconductor makers.
▪ Pricing is being left to each of the six semiconductor makers.
shoe
▪ He became instead a boot and shoe maker.
▪ Feet also get larger as people get older. Shoe makers aggravate the situation by not agreeing on uniform sizes.
software
▪ Shares of computer and software makers also were lower.
▪ The 19-person start-up was funded by Colorado-based desktop publishing software makers Quark Inc.
▪ The software maker blames the hardware.
▪ Those software makers rose 900 percent, and 826 percent respectively over the same period.
▪ But the biggest changes lie ahead, say Internet analysts, software makers and other observers.
▪ Oracle Corp., another software maker, rose 2 to 43 3 / 4.
▪ Moreover, a growing number of software makers are releasing short demonstration versions of their programs.
steel
▪ Nucor, a steel maker, maintains double-digit growth in an industry that has been shrinking.
tire
▪ In order to make up for falling retail prices, tire makers have been struggling to raise prices to car makers.
■ VERB
based
▪ There was no news on the Moline, Illinois-#based maker of power machinery.
▪ Reflectone, a Tampa-#based maker of flight simulators, increased 1 3 / 4 to 15 3 / 4.
▪ The Ottawa-#based maker of computerized communications equipment cashed in on optimistic prospects for the Internet, the global computer network.
▪ Shares of the Preston, Washington-#based snowboard maker fell 8 1 / 2 to 25 after analysts at Hambrecht&038;.
lead
▪ Intel, the leading computer chip maker, said first-quarter revenues would be 25 % below the previous quarter.
▪ Nucor is now worth more than the three leading integrated makers combined.
▪ That deal, which closed in February, combined the two companies into the leading independent maker of computer storage products.
sell
▪ Tire companies therefore compensated for larger losses on tires sold to car makers by raising their margins on retail sales.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
meet your maker
▪ At last the father fell down on to the pavement completely exhausted and convinced he was going to meet his maker there and then.
▪ I constantly sought cover from a host of opportunities to meet my Maker.
▪ I guess Big Willie means for you to meet your Maker.
▪ This, their last wish, was respected, and George and Joseph went to meet their maker hand in hand.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Makers of cars often think more about speed than about safety.
▪ Daimler-Benz AG is the maker of Mercedes-Benz automobiles.
▪ Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low.
▪ The wine maker has to decide when the crop is ready for picking.
▪ wine makers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In order to make up for falling retail prices, tire makers have been struggling to raise prices to car makers.
▪ New York-based Loral is an aerospace and defense equipment maker.
▪ On the block is likely to be one of Mr Murdoch's stranger diversifications: Etak, a maker of electronic maps.
▪ Sybase Inc., a maker of database management software products, fell 2 3 / 4 to 28 3 / 4.
▪ The findings will interest policy makers, the financial community and academics alike.