I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a monthly payment
▪ Home buyers have seen their monthly payments go up by more than 50 percent.
a monthly/annual etc allowance
▪ His father gives him a monthly allowance of £200.
a monthly/weekly meeting
▪ a routine weekly meeting with the managing director
a weekly/daily/monthly column
▪ Her daily column covered a wide range of topics.
an annual/a monthly fee
▪ An annual fee of £150 has been introduced.
an annual/monthly subscription
▪ An annual subscription to the magazine costs $20.
an annual/monthly/weekly budget
▪ The organization has an annual budget of $24 million.
an annual/monthly/weekly cycle (=the related events that repeat themselves every year, month etc)
▪ the annual cycle of planting and harvesting crops
an annual/monthly/weekly/daily total
▪ The Government plans to increase the annual total of 2,500 adoptions by up to 50%.
be paid weekly/monthly
▪ Most of us get paid weekly or monthly.
hourly/weekly/monthly earnings
▪ Some football players have weekly earnings of over £50,000.
monthly salary
▪ What's your monthly salary?
the annual/monthly cost
▪ This figure represents the annual cost of a loan.
the annual/monthly/weekly rent
▪ Our annual rent is just over $15000.
the hourly/daily/monthly etc wage
▪ The average daily wage was £100.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
allowance
▪ I was looking forward to my day because I would be getting my monthly allowance of thirty pounds from my mum.
▪ It paid me a monthly allowance, which was never enough.
average
▪ October alone has seen more than an inch over the monthly average ... and it's not half way through the month yet.
▪ In 1993, a monthly average of 5 million families received Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
▪ The monthly average in 1989 was 950.
▪ The totals are more than twice as much as the monthly averages.
basis
▪ First of all, detail all your expenses - on a monthly basis - in the left hand column.
▪ To make these figures seem less alarming, banks prefer to quote rates on a monthly basis.
▪ But he wants to track its ups and downs on a monthly basis.
▪ But now assume another person invests that same $ 20, 000 in pieces on a monthly basis.
▪ He asks us to give returns on the monthly basis.
bill
▪ Your monthly bills, including mortgage or rent, should not be more than half your monthly take-home pay.
▪ The average monthly bill per customer is declining as the industry woos newcomers who want a cellular phone mainly for emergencies.
▪ One can actually program a computer to pay certain monthly bills automatically on a specified day.
▪ Charges for extra time quickly raise the monthly bill.
▪ Most people, on the other hand, have a job and virtually everyone pays taxes and monthly bills.
bulletin
▪ In both cases the customer is sent quarterly statements plus a monthly bulletin of market analysis and research.
▪ Its priceless monthly bulletins will continue to add to the gaiety of nations.
▪ A monthly bulletin is prepared and circulated to each section.
▪ Its monthly bulletin goes to over 350 groups.
▪ It publishes a monthly bulletin featuring all the latest small business opportunities.
charge
▪ Included in the monthly charge are all meals, central heating, hot water, maintenance and cleaning.
▪ The monthly charge is $ 40 for current cable subscribers and $ 60 for nonsubscribers.
▪ Also ask about the possibility of capped monthly charges to certain numbers.
▪ People told of monthly charges going from $ 8 to $ 13 and from $ 12 to $ 26.
check
▪ The last monthly check was for $ 589.
▪ The second is a desire to stop giving monthly checks to alcoholics and addicts.
▪ Who will guarantee monthly checks if Wall Street swoons?
▪ Take your pension in lump sum rather than in monthly checks.
▪ With an average life expectancy, that same beneficiary will collect a monthly check for five years beyond that.
▪ For an average earner, that will be 16 years of collecting a monthly check worth about $ 4, 247.
fee
▪ But customers should remember that they could face other charges on top of the interest such as monthly fees.
▪ Most plans include a monthly fee and a certain number of free minutes per month.
▪ There is a monthly fee of £1.50 to cover the administration of your Home Management Account.
▪ Not everyone can afford a computer system at home plus the monthly fees.
▪ But now she pays a monthly fee to the Miraflores municipality.
▪ Typically, a solicitor will offer several magazines for a low weekly or monthly fee.
▪ The monthly fee covers continuous ordinary dental care.
▪ AutoBy-Tel charges auto dealerships a monthly fee for its referrals.
income
▪ Instead, with average monthly income falling to $ 10, life is far harder than under Soviet rule.
▪ Mills was flush, with no debts and a $ 3, 000 monthly income that sufficed easily in Coahoma.
▪ He decided to arrange that a large monthly income be paid to Annabel until next May: that should shut her up.
▪ Subtract the total of those items in levels I and 2 from your monthly income.
▪ These bonds pay regular monthly income on sums of between £500 and £1 million.
▪ That sum doubles their monthly income.
▪ Save as you earn-Building societies will accept regular monthly income from you.
inflation
▪ However, monthly inflation, which had reached 123 percent in February, was down to 5 percent by May-June.
▪ By April 1989 price controls started to crumble and monthly inflation rose from 5% in March 1989 to 73% this February.
instalments
▪ The repayment mortgage is the traditional method of arranging a mortgage where capital is repaid by level monthly instalments together with interest.
▪ Here's what it costs Included in the 12 monthly instalments is a small credit charge.
▪ On a loan of 100 repaid in 12 equal monthly instalments, you'd be charged £6.50.
▪ She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5, when she asked for a second loan.
▪ The tax-relief is paid to us - and we take it off your monthly instalments.
▪ Loan repayments are spread over 60 monthly instalments.
▪ Spread your premium payments over 12 monthly instalments.
▪ He would pay back the £5,000 together with the interest in 120 monthly instalments of £82.89.
interest
▪ If you think that monthly interest would be a useful supplement to your income, follow our guide.
▪ Chin allegedly wrote six checks to Jasmine Inc. to pay 4 percent monthly interest on the loans, the indictment says.
▪ Accounts that pay monthly interest may offer lower rates than those where the interest is paid annually.
▪ First-e and First Direct offer only monthly interest.
▪ With a Capital Advantage account you have the option of monthly interest paid straight into your Barclays current account.
▪ Now savers can get up to 7.76 p.c. on monthly interest with the Halifax.
interval
▪ They do, however, need to be tested at monthly intervals to ensure that the batteries are still active.
▪ Each session is spaced out at monthly intervals.
▪ Newsletters from the police will be issued at three monthly intervals.
▪ The Village Association will pay for the three monthly intervals.
magazine
▪ Darby was a cheerfully relaxed young man who compiled cryptic crosswords for a monthly magazine in his spare time.
▪ It is now the largest selling monthly magazine for young women in almost all of the countries in which it is published.
▪ A new monthly magazine Wessex Architect was launched and used to promote a wide range of events.
▪ Which was the most discussed book of the year according to some magazine, monthly magazine.
▪ Automatic receipt of the monthly magazine Banking World.
▪ Worldwide membership of the 13-year-old Eastwood Appreciation Society - which produced a monthly magazine - had slumped from 1,000 to just 87.
▪ This is the monthly magazine, for Guides, with lots of help and ideas for fun Patrol activities.
▪ Our combined experience of running and selling a monthly magazine was not large.
meeting
▪ Club activities centre on monthly meetings, an information service and the production of application demonstrators.
▪ They held monthly meetings of all tenants.
▪ When Quaker tea merchant Joseph Fry went bankrupt in 1828 his monthly meeting disowned him.
▪ I said no way to that, so I had to join a regular reserve unit and go to monthly meetings.
▪ The monthly meetings include discussions of Club business, talks by guest speakers and vendor presentations.
▪ At the monthly meetings they took their meals together and did not appear to welcome anyone else to join them.
▪ For a time the results were communicated to field staff at their regular monthly meetings.
▪ The Council held monthly meetings, later becoming more frequent, with different ministers attending according to the subject being discussed.
mortgage
▪ You can expect to pay £5.50 for each £100 of your monthly mortgage payment.
▪ Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
newsletter
▪ The group has proposed the launch of an independent monthly newsletter to address these and other issues.
▪ He concluded by thanking vice-chairman Tony Rudgard who has produced the useful monthly newsletter for parish councillors.
▪ Cuttings that should come to everybody's attention quickly can be pinned to the library noticeboard or contained in a monthly newsletter.
▪ Many also issue a monthly newsletter giving investment advice.
payment
▪ Just like a repayment mortgage, the interest rates can change, and this will affect your monthly payment.
▪ That totals 26 payments a year, the equivalent of 13 monthly payments rather than 12&038;.
▪ Thus after year six, your monthly payments are higher than the standard rate demands.
▪ In either case, however, the business has the use of the asset and incurs a monthly payment obligation.
▪ Budget the cost through fixed monthly payments and - depending on the project - offset some of the cost through tax relief.
▪ Conversely, if the base rate rises, your monthly payments stay the same.
▪ The grant will be distributed over 3 monthly payments to ensure maximum accountability.
▪ For those taking an £80,000 loan over 25 years, this means a monthly payment of £583.41.
premium
▪ By comparison, an Equitable Life 10-year endowment policy, with monthly premiums of £30, would have produced about £8,399.
▪ What is the monthly premium excluding all riders?
▪ In fact, it is considerably less than the £2,548.26 that the policyholder has paid in the form of monthly premiums.
▪ Choice of monthly premiums from your Bank current account or some types of Building Society account.
▪ With each monthly premium, you acquire more units.
▪ The values shown here are per £10 of monthly premium.
▪ In addition, a lot of fund managers impose a minimum monthly premium, typically between £20 and £50.
publication
▪ The monthly publication of the unemployment figures provides a depressing barometer of the dole queue.
▪ My short stories and sketches were to find first outlets through George Scott, editor of the literary monthly publication, Truth.
▪ All, or at least some are presumably revealed in a slender monthly publication.
▪ In 1892 Trevor founded a monthly publication entitled Labour Prophet.
▪ They operate on around a quarter of the staff of a normal monthly publication. 9.
rate
▪ Switching to a daily or monthly rate could save hundreds of pounds each year.
▪ Also, the amount paid exceeds the authorized monthly rate of pay for the director of data services position.
▪ The average monthly rate would go up to an estimated $ 14. 52.
▪ It is invested in Treasury securities with a guaranteed monthly rate.
▪ With your help, we can keep our cost of operations steady, which helps control our monthly rates.
rent
▪ He barely makes enough money to pay his monthly rent.
▪ Newsome suggests a pet deposit of 25 percent to 33 percent of the monthly rent.
repayment
▪ And, you can usually arrange sickness or redundancy benefit to cover your monthly repayments, for a small premium each month.
▪ Budget ahead to meet fixed monthly repayments.
▪ Borrowers can chose to repay with 3 or 5 percent pared off their monthly repayments.
▪ For example, £15,000 over 5 years would give a monthly repayment of about £400, and a total repayment of £24,000.
▪ The additional data available includes the initial monthly repayment and the total cost of the loan.
▪ Longer loan periods mean your monthly repayments can be correspondingly lower.
▪ Look at the monthly repayments and make sure they add up correctly.
▪ The monthly repayment will be £356.67, a saving of £176.66 each month and £10,599.60 over the full five-year term.
report
▪ Ministries send in monthly reports which are annotated and submitted to the Chancellor via the state secretaries.
▪ It also will monitor how well specific companies deal with minorities and publish monthly reports.
▪ For example, question whether you really need to see all those monthly reports crammed full of data you never study.
▪ J., chairman of Congress' Joint Economic Committee, which held a hearing to discuss the monthly report.
▪ It provides detailed monthly reports and annual summaries itemising the amount overcharged, or if appropriate, undercharged.
▪ In its monthly reports, for instance, it has dropped its insistence that the threat of deflation has receded.
salary
▪ In constant dollar terms, a teacher with a monthly salary of $ 381 six weeks ago now brings home $ 248.
▪ Petar Beron calculates his monthly salary in loaves of bread.
▪ The part-time worker has the right to a monthly salary proportionally equivalent to that of a corresponding full-time employee.
▪ In future they will be treated like other manual workers and be paid monthly salaries.
▪ Sir Hugh Rossi - more than one quarter of monthly salary?
▪ They put the money into a bank account, out of which they pay themselves a monthly salary.
▪ They do nothing but draw their monthly salaries.
service
▪ Service degradations will however be noted, with reasons, in the monthly service report.
▪ The cost is about $ 5, 000, plus a monthly service fee starting at $ 80.
▪ Other radio presentations included one of the monthly services in 1954, and the School Choir in I 955.
▪ Results will be summarised in the monthly service report.
statement
▪ All seven schools received a monthly statement in the form of a computer printout from county hall.
▪ A monthly statement showing details of all transactions on your account together with the balance on Meridian Savings.
sum
▪ Break down all your income amounts and expense amounts into monthly sums.
▪ The monthly sum may be low but over the long term, it adds up.
▪ Concurrently with these interest charges, you contribute a monthly sum to an endowment policy.
survey
▪ Output expectations for the next four months are the highest recorded by the authoritative monthly survey since May last year.
▪ One is the monthly survey by Challenger, Gray&038;.
total
▪ The table summarises the records since 1948 and suggests some increase; duplications arise in the monthly totals when birds winter.
▪ Then add monthly totals together-it will be a surprisingly large total.
wage
▪ Stars received 20 times the average monthly wage for one concert.
▪ It nearly doubled his monthly wage, from $ 3. 75 to $ 6. 50.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a monthly commuter train ticket
▪ a monthly credit card payment
▪ a monthly income of $3,750
▪ a monthly magazine
▪ a monthly meeting
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A loan of £30,000 would add more than 7 percent to a monthly £298.22.
▪ A new monthly magazine Wessex Architect was launched and used to promote a wide range of events.
▪ And they gave monthly and quarterly awards to the best drivers.
▪ But he wants to track its ups and downs on a monthly basis.
▪ Cuttings that should come to everybody's attention quickly can be pinned to the library noticeboard or contained in a monthly newsletter.
▪ In the first year of the plan, the government will pay 30 percent of their monthly payments.
▪ The monthly charge is $ 40 for current cable subscribers and $ 60 for nonsubscribers.
▪ The average monthly bill per customer is declining as the industry woos newcomers who want a cellular phone mainly for emergencies.
II.nounEXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Commercial journals, particularly the weeklies and monthlies, can take rapid decisions, and have a faster turn-round time.