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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
participation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
active participation/involvement (=in an activity or event)
▪ Active participation in community life is important in small towns and villages.
▪ The school encourages the active involvement of parents.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
▪ Managing contradictory interests involves active participation and negotiation with other representatives of civil society.
▪ During their sophomore and junior years, many feel their way toward active participation in one or more facets of college life.
▪ Second, it highlighted the importance of active participation by elderly people themselves in all aspects of course planning.
▪ And many respondents who mention active participation also mention the more parochial norms.
▪ On active participation by the population in arts and sport: I' m in favour of experimentation but not compulsion.
▪ The interaction assists both you and your client, since it evokes active participation in the imagination process from the client.
▪ No such authoritative review of clinical ecology can occur without the active participation of proponents of the approach.
▪ But in order to respond fully, our active participation as spectators is very obviously called into play - as well as called into question.
democratic
▪ Are we seeing a democratic participation in all walks of life?
▪ Many people have recommended other forms of democratic participation, from neighborhood assemblies to a national initiative and referendum process.
▪ Institutions for change Rural development demands institutional pluralism and democratic participation.
▪ They also wanted specific assurances about rules for Democratic participation in the inquiry.
▪ You espouse democratic participation in design.
direct
▪ The essence of it was the direct personal participation of the citizen body in the government of the city.
▪ For larger corporations, direct participation in the money market may still be cost effective.
female
▪ This sociability has been largely male. Female participation in sport has been negligible until recently.
▪ When they presently rode away from Dunbar Castle, Fraser's attitude towards female participation in affairs had risen noticeably.
full
▪ A partner is entitled to full participation in the management of the partnership.
▪ Many in the labor force will not be ready for full participation in fishnet organizations.
▪ Now Bishop David wants the fullest participation in formulating the Leeds diocesan response.
▪ We worked out goals with full team member participation, and then measured against those goals.
▪ They may also encourage better provision and help individuals towards full participation in the general community.
▪ It is not known at this time if his injuries will preclude his full participation in the election campaign.
▪ Its first full participation was at Los Angeles in 1984.
▪ These seminars should seek full participation from States in the region in which they are held.
great
▪ There is some evidence, therefore, that crime and vandalism may be reduced by greater participation in sport.
▪ Schools and classrooms can be restructured to allow students greater participation in the valid aspects of the school-governing process.
▪ The barriers to greater participation include finance, mobility, and sometimes lack of knowledge about what is available.
▪ Its supporters make the point that it breaks down rigid hierarchies and allows for greater participation in the decision-making process.
▪ Citizenship rights were developed along with liberal government due to modernisation and protest in order to obtain a greater degree of participation.
▪ Stewart/Ranson therefore argue for four related developments to allow for greater popular participation.
▪ Not the least among these changes is the greater participation of women in the labour market and their increased career expectations.
high
▪ Sports participants have much higher frequencies of participation than do participants in other leisure activities such as the arts.
▪ This high frequency of participation across a large number of sports is an important characteristic of sports participation.
▪ The latter question will yield a higher participation rate than the former, since it picks up infrequent participation.
▪ There may be a variety of social sanctions which lead to a high level of participation.
▪ They laid great emphasis on the value of a high level of participation by members of the lesbian and gay communities.
▪ Many surveys have shown that men have higher participation rates than women.
▪ In the survey, one of the two higher forms of participation was recorded by only 20% of those surveyed.
▪ The thrust of the Council's case was higher participation and widened access to higher education.
increased
▪ Divorce, decreases in family size and the increased labour market participation of women raise questions about future supplies of informal care.
▪ Observance of reasonable guidelines designed to encourage increased and profitable participation by Network members in cross-border transactions.
low
▪ Union consciousness and the activists Conventional wisdom attributes women's low participation in union affairs largely to domestic responsibilities.
▪ And major political issues are often decided on the basis of very low voter participation.
▪ This view of the causes of lower participation of older people has important implications for sports policy.
political
▪ Many feel political participation must be made worthwhile before active citizenship can occur.
▪ We were interested not only in political participation, but also in any sort of outgoing activity the individual might mention.
▪ In 1982 a further, very limited, form of political participation was started.
▪ The richer empirical studies, however, have indicated that there are different dimensions of political participation.
▪ It includes all aspects of political participation, including formal parties, but also local and national pressure groups.
▪ Our objective is to describe and explain college students' political participation.
▪ In fact mass political participation is historically very rare, either through choice or lack of opportunity.
▪ The state does not allow absolute freedom of political participation and opposition.
popular
▪ The Council's business development services continue to prove popular and participation numbers remain high.
▪ The radical elite theorists emphasized that popular participation is perfectly feasible, but collusion between elite groups prevents it from being established.
▪ But for most States, that only became feasible in the nineteenth century with the development of popular participation.
▪ Some were keen to shunt popular participation into the civic training ground of local government.
▪ Stewart/Ranson therefore argue for four related developments to allow for greater popular participation.
▪ Two major points emerged in our analysis of popular participation.
public
▪ So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study.
▪ Another innovation has been in the area of public participation.
▪ It has become a textbook case of how to kill off public participation.
▪ The most outspoken advocates of public participation in central government were a minority of activists among the provincial nobility.
▪ Additionally, bargaining is a closed, private activity which sits uneasily astride the current emphasis on open government and public participation.
▪ The demand for guaranteed civil liberties and public participation in state decision-making gathered pace.
▪ In Buxtehude, great emphasis has been laid on publicity and, especially during the unpopular trial stage, on public participation.
voluntary
▪ Consequently, the enjoyable show relied heavily on voluntary audience participation to act out the battle scenes.
▪ Beyond this, to maximize the voluntary participation, the editor comes to personify the strategy and purposes of the publication.
▪ Much of the opposition may come from imagined or real excesses from voluntary participation itself.
▪ What about the promises of voluntarism where voluntary participation is the featured work perspective?
▪ When it happens there is a mobilization of thought and will for voluntary participation in something worthwhile.
■ NOUN
audience
▪ There's a sort of audience participation because nobody can control these crowds.
▪ Brown is deft at handling audience participation.
▪ This is a good trick for audience participation.
▪ During the movie, though, my audience participation mostly took the form of loud, raucous laughter.
▪ Practical examples called for willing audience participation to drive the message home: Chemistry is everywhere - and it's fun.
▪ I was booing and hissing the bad guys with the best of them, and I usually hate audience participation.
▪ Consequently, the enjoyable show relied heavily on voluntary audience participation to act out the battle scenes.
▪ I know it's time for audience participation.
citizen
▪ The audit report was also critical of the amount of funds allocated to staff support of citizen participation activities.
▪ Another source of increasing tension in the federal aid system concerned citizen participation in decisionmaking.
▪ Crawford was eager to allow the bureaucrats to steamroller over any meaningful citizen participation in the process.
▪ The expansion of citizen participation is greatly threatened today by government secrecy, industrial monopolies, and a closed media.
▪ The hands-off policy was extended to the structure of citizen participation and the social targeting provisions.
▪ The Senate would even have required citizen participation in the execution of the program.
▪ The city chose existing citizen advisory boards and commissions as its vehicle for citizen participation.
▪ As part of the citizen participation requirements, councils had been set up in four model cities and twelve antipoverty target neighborhoods.
client
▪ Full client participation is essential to ensure accuracy when compiling the information model.
▪ Almost all the examples he gives for a restriction of client participation are atypical of a community work situation.
▪ How can we measure client participation in community work?
▪ In our terms, client participation was not effective.
employee
▪ When considering bids, preference will be given to bids involving significant employee participation.
▪ Supportive policies A new skill-based payment system was designed with employee participation.
▪ We have made it clear that bids involving a substantial degree of employee participation will receive a preference.
▪ The company also encourages employee participation in this process through small groups in which workers discuss ideas.
force
▪ What role does labour force participation play in keeping lone parents out of poverty?
▪ Labor force participation rates measure the proportion of the population of working age that is either employed or seeking a job.
▪ Factors such as unemployment and the number of young people attending further education also influence labour force participation rates.
▪ The labor force participation rate of women increased more than 5 % between 1982 and 1993.
▪ The basis of flexibility is disproportionately shouldered by female patterns of labour force participation.
▪ Then we showed that increasing the after-tax wage would encourage labour force participation by those not currently in the labour force.
▪ Since 1951 there has been a significant decrease in the labour force participation of older male workers.
market
▪ Defining citizenship in terms of market participation is therefore one aspect of the Conservative government's aim of promoting inequality.
▪ One motivation for the reform was the perceived disincentive to labour market participation generated by the current benefit rules.
▪ After all, an entrepreneur needs no assets to engage in profitable market participation.
▪ First, women's labour market participation is regarded as marginal in comparison with that of men.
▪ Labour market participation Caring for a disabled or elderly person is clearly associated with lower rates of labour market participation among women.
▪ Divorce, decreases in family size and the increased labour market participation of women raise questions about future supplies of informal care.
▪ Labour market participation Caring for a disabled or elderly person is clearly associated with lower rates of labour market participation among women.
rate
▪ The latter question will yield a higher participation rate than the former, since it picks up infrequent participation.
▪ The participation rate is regarded as an indicator of the number of people looking for work.
▪ Gateshead has a large number of low-income families and has traditionally had a poor participation rate in further and higher education.
▪ The president attributed the relatively small participation rate to a lack of awareness of what the law does.
▪ Factors such as unemployment and the number of young people attending further education also influence labour force participation rates.
▪ Labor force participation rates measure the proportion of the population of working age that is either employed or seeking a job.
▪ Many surveys have shown that men have higher participation rates than women.
▪ Hispanic participation rates increased slightly as well, from 26. 9 percent in 1985 to 34. 4 percent in 1991.
voter
▪ He is undoubtedly right about certain basic trends: The evidence concerning decreasing social trust and falling voter participation is unambiguous.
▪ Although open primaries increase voter participation, they also create the potential for sabotage.
▪ And major political issues are often decided on the basis of very low voter participation.
▪ There is little disagreement that unfiltered television exposure for the candidates can not hurt in an era of declining voter participation.
▪ The turnout continues a downward voter participation trend that started in 1964.
worker
▪ This company was very special in the extent of both worker participation in management, and employee ownership.
▪ The right to information, consultation and worker participation.
■ VERB
encourage
▪ Non-government organisations monitor treaty performance and encourage participation in treaties to which they themselves can not adhere.
▪ Education for Gifted Students is intended to stimulate interest in gifted and talented education and to encourage widespread participation in developing it.
▪ In order to encourage participation, task groups are supported which consider, in depth, various Ada-related aspects.
▪ Then we showed that increasing the after-tax wage would encourage labour force participation by those not currently in the labour force.
▪ This leads to a consideration of what would encourage participation.
▪ This section is about ways to encourage participation in the systems development process.
▪ The Student's Union encourages your active participation.
include
▪ Another set of activities, which are physical but not competitive, are also often included in national sports participation surveys.
▪ The Access to Teaching scheme was extended and now includes participation by 5 Further Education colleges.
▪ Groups may be included or excluded from participation in the system.
▪ These would include genuine participation in the selection of Commission members and the right to initiate legislation.
▪ Once they are included in the explanation participation drops out as an inessential part of many consent situations.
increase
▪ The emphasis amongst researchers on gender, therefore, has not been on increasing the participation of girls in education.
▪ Although open primaries increase voter participation, they also create the potential for sabotage.
▪ This study is a review of issues associated with increasing participation in higher education.
▪ The outcome will be a detailed report to assist providers in increasing the participation of different socio-economic groups in learning activities.
▪ Feminist efforts to increase women's participation among psychologists rarely take account of age.
▪ It would seem that there is considerable evidence for increasing the participation of older people in such activities as swimming.
▪ They also endeavour to increase the participation of local organizations in educational planning.
involve
▪ When considering bids, preference will be given to bids involving significant employee participation.
▪ It involves participation by businessmen and other community leaders in and out of classrooms.
▪ Managing contradictory interests involves active participation and negotiation with other representatives of civil society.
▪ One is the mobilization of a national campaign sponsored by dynamic government leaders and involving mass participation by the people.
▪ Active citizenship involves the participation of individuals in the social, economic and political organisations of the state.
▪ The informed consent of the patient is also relevant when considering research which involves patient participation.
▪ It was expected to co-ordinate a process of consensus-building by holding meetings throughout the country involving maximum public participation.
limit
▪ When and if that point arrives, we may hope to limit government participation to the role of the exchequer.
require
▪ Grossman's analysis offers a more analytical treatment of why rational economic behaviour would require higher participation by higher income groups.
▪ Annexation, however, is a long process requiring hearings and the participation of the Local Agency Formation Commission.
▪ Active citizenship, they believe, requires active participation in policy-making and taking responsibilities.
▪ Like electrons, the Goddess requires participation.
▪ The Senate would even have required citizen participation in the execution of the program.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Voter participation has declined by 5%.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All that I have said about the shared participation of the young and old remains unqualified.
▪ As we saw in Chapter 4, age is a major influence on participation.
▪ Broadly, political participation is the term that can be applied to all of the political actions by individuals and groups.
▪ Each of the services nominated five of their installations for participation.
▪ It is such injuries that make up the cost side of the balance sheet of the sports participation and health relationship.
▪ Scientists in the area have welcomed Native participation but maintain that traditional knowledge is also limited.
▪ They offer opportunities for participation in decision-making.
▪ We sanctify ourselves through literate participation in collective reverence for our past.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Participation

Participation \Par*tic`i*pa"tion\, n. [F. participation, L. participatio.]

  1. The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.

    These deities are so by participation.
    --Bp. Stillingfleet.

    What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of himself!
    --Atterbury.

  2. Distribution; division into shares. [Obs.]
    --Raleigh.

  3. Community; fellowship; association. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
participation

late 14c., from Old French participacion (13c.) and directly from Late Latin participationem (nominative participatio) "partaking," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin participare "participate in, share in, partake of; to make partaker, to share, impart," from particeps (genitive participis) "partaker, comrade, fellow soldier," also, as an adjective, "sharing, partaking," from pars (genitive partis) "part" (see part (n.)) + -cip-, weak form of stem of capere "to take" (see capable).

Wiktionary
participation

n. 1 The act of participating, of taking part to a process. 2 the state of being related to a larger whole 3 the process during which individuals, groups and organizations are consulted about or have the opportunity to become actively involved in a project or program of activity. 4 An ownership interest or profit-sharing right.

WordNet
participation
  1. n. the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities" [syn: engagement, involvement, involution] [ant: non-engagement, non-engagement, non-engagement]

  2. the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) [syn: involvement]

Wikipedia
Participation (decision making)

Participation in social science refers to different mechanisms for the public to express opinions – and ideally exert influence – regarding political, economic, management or other social decisions. Participatory decision-making can take place along any realm of human social activity, including economic (i.e. participatory economics), political (i.e. participatory democracy or parpolity), management (i.e. participatory management), cultural (i.e. polyculturalism) or familial (i.e. feminism).

For well-informed participation to occur, it is argued that some version of transparency, e.g. radical transparency, is necessary but not sufficient. It has also been argued that those most affected by a decision should have the most say while those that are least affected should have the least say in a topic.

Participation

Participation or Participant may refer to:

Participation (ownership)

In finance, "participation" is an ownership interest in a mortgage or other loan. In particular, loan participation is a cooperation of multiple lenders to issue a loan (known as participation loan) to one borrower. This is usually done in order to reduce individual risks of the lenders.

The term is also used as a synonym to profit sharing, an incentive whereby employees of a company receive a share of the profits of the company.

Participation (philosophy)

In Philosophy participation is the inverse of inherence.

Accidents are said to inhere in substance. Substances, in turn, participate in their accidents. For example, the color red is said to inhere in the red apple. Conversely, the red apple participates in the color red.

Participation also is predicated by analogy to a dependence relations between accidents. Thus an act may be said to participate in time in the sense that every act must occur at some time. In a similar way, color may be said to inhere in space, meaning that a color occurs only on the surface of a body—and thus only in space.

Inherence, on the other hand, would not normally be predicated analogously of accidents.

Category:Concepts in metaphysics Category:Natural philosophy

Usage examples of "participation".

Journal of the 2d instant, but had no participation in any form in any other article alluding to you.

The Grand Master of the Order is also an Archpriest in the Inner Circle, but like most military holy orders they have little participation in the day to day running of the Temple.

Twenty-five minutes later, Bucky came downstairs, which might be an overstatement of her active participation in the matter.

Then, upon the allegation which he could well carry out and which no other man could make good, that with the Army and his influence among the rebels of the South, whom he had brought to his support by his previous violations of law, he could secure the electoral votes of those ten States by excluding the negroes whom we have enfranchised from all participation in the election.

Turbo, Meles Agrippa, and Castoras are all historical figures, but their participation in the respective initiations is invented.

Idea to its Matter and the substrate may change and from being pleasant become distasteful, a sign, in all reason, that the beauty comes by participation.

The pattern giving beauty to the corporeal rests upon it as Idea to its Matter and the substrate may change and from being pleasant become distasteful, a sign, in all reason, that the beauty comes by participation.

Thus, from the point of view of the cause or of the structure of the object, there is participation, syncretistic schemas resulting from the fusion of singular terms.

If, then, the divided and quantitatively extended is to participate in another Kind, is to have any sort of participation, it can participate only in something undivided, unextended, wholly outside of quantity.

Kind, is to have any sort of participation, it can participate only in something undivided, unextended, wholly outside of quantity.

If it had authentic participation in The Good and were veritably changed, it would not be essentially evil.

It was an open secret that General Henrik Werth, Chief of Staff of the Hungarian General Staff, and our Ambassador to Berlin, Dome Sztojai, had submitted several memorandums whlch stated their opinions on Hungarian participation in the German moves.

On certain controversial points, such as the cause for enforced retirement of Suetonius, the origin of Antinous, whether slave or free, the active participation of Hadrian in the Palestinian war, the dates of apotheosis of Sabina and of interment of Aelius Caesar in the Castel Sant Angelo, it has been necessary to choose between hypotheses of historians, but the effort has been to make that choice only with good reason.

He conceived of Army participation in antisubmarine air warfare as a temporary expedient.

These automata are so far removed from being in a position to reproduce themselves without human participation that I scarcely know where to begin listing the objections.