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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
medium-sized
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a medium-sized business
▪ They offer services to small and medium-sized businesses.
a medium-sized firm
▪ The law will not effect medium-sized firms with less than 100 employees.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
business
▪ Redstone plans to offer broadband services to small and medium-sized businesses following local loop unbundling in July 2001.
▪ Rather than focus on big leveraged buyouts, Ripplewood will primarily look at medium-sized businesses with potential to export their products.
▪ It is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, and includes access to a suite of Microsoft Office applications.
▪ But the doubling of capital allowances for small-and medium-sized businesses is welcomed by all sides of the industry.
▪ The objective would be to provide funds for startups and for small and medium-sized businesses in general.
company
▪ Some 11.5% comes from industry, 9.8% from government, and 7.5% from and small to medium-sized companies.
▪ Smaller and medium-sized companies are likely to face the same type of time perspective when they seek external financing.
▪ Instead, a central fund for state property will be set up to sell large and medium-sized companies.
▪ There will also be easier access, especially for small and medium-sized companies, to innovation support programmes.
▪ Small and medium-sized companies are, after all, still the big companies of the future.
▪ It is the kind of argument that any businessman in charge of even a medium-sized company would recognize instantly.
▪ The chairman, Lord Alexander, said the pain continued to be felt amongst personal customers and small to medium-sized companies.
▪ The target is 500 schemes by 1993, with a switch of emphasis towards small- and medium-sized companies.
firm
▪ Exchange rate uncertainty places small and medium-sized firms at a special disadvantage.
▪ One medium-sized firm of solicitors in East Anglia has written to its staff asking them to forgo their pay for December.
▪ Redundancies are expected in large numbers, particularly from medium-sized firms.
▪ The issuing house was active in turning small- and medium-sized firms into public companies.
▪ In contrast, medium-sized firms in particular thought the requirement should be aimed specifically at sole practitioners and firms in breach.
▪ Some medium-sized firms will be decentralised and structured by divisions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
large-sized/medium-sized/pocket-size etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For a medium-sized power such as Britain, the best way to maximise our influence is to pool sovereignty by combining with others.
▪ However, with the two medium-sized potatoes and a spoonful of carrots, she found this also quite to her liking.
▪ In a medium-sized bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt.
▪ In the first instance the government was aiming to foster a private sector in small and medium-sized enterprises.
▪ Several banks have 30% of their liabilities denominated in dollars; one medium-sized bank recently had half.
▪ Team C operates in a medium-sized town with some outlying rural areas and serves a population of about 13,000.
▪ The farmers who are successful are those with medium-sized farms, who are growing for export.
▪ To make lentils, in a medium-sized saucepan, heat oil and saute carrot, onion, and celery until lightly colored.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Medium-sized

Medium-sized \Me"di*um-sized`\, a. Having a medium size; as, a medium-sized man.

Wiktionary
medium-sized

a. Having a medium or intermediate size

Usage examples of "medium-sized".

She could make out only the vague outline of a medium-sized frame with a head sleek as a seal, but that was enough to see that already the shoulders were tensing to lift the bat in a second backswing, aimed straight at her head.

She imagined he was in the middle of some megadeal or complex negotiation to buy a medium-sized planet or financially strapped country.

Quaup, the majority of whom were part of the Mercatoria - the captain had served on a war craft with a Quaup officer - were of the meta-species type people usually called blimps, small to medium-sized balloon-like creatures, air-going oxygen processors.

This section of Otaria was thick with both venom hunters and constrictors-from the small but lethal jade adder to the medium-sized razorback rattler to the enormous rock python that could swallow a man whole.

Anna Lelong, who grew up on a medium-sized estate in Riazan province in the 1840s, recalled the Shrovetide holiday as a moment of communion between lord and serf.

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After filling certain pockets and pouches with weapons and survival items, some reproduction coins of gold, silver, and copper, a water-purification set, and a supply of food-energy briquettes, she reconsidered for a moment, then added a medium-sized medical kit to her pack.

A quick look around the corner revealed a cross street with large- and medium-sized buildings on both sides.

The long, low main house of Pireth Tulme was not large, only three medium-sized common rooms, each surrounded by a dozen anterooms, each barely large enough for the pair of cots and two footlockers it held.

Although there is no shortage of urban blight and despair in Rochester, it is regularly deemed by pollsters to be one of the safest medium-sized cities in the nation.

He pinched off some yellow rabbitbrush flowers and tossed them into the air just to be sure of the slight wind, then squatted again at the edge of a small open area populated by two medium-sized anthills and a cluster of prickly pear cactus.

They were in a medium-sized shopping mall that catered to the college crowd due to the proximity of UVA.

Route 29, the Charlottesville Fashion Square Mall was a medium-sized shopping mall that catered to a largely upscale clientele of local gentry and students at the nearby University of Virginia.

I tried to dissect a medium-sized herbivore, to see how similar the internal structure was to the cropper Planet Certification reported dissecting.

A medium-sized chunk of reddish-brown rock with a few dark seas thrown in for contrast, it circled around a yellow star notable only for its averageness.