noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
access provider
airtime provider
an Internet service provider (=a company that allows you to connect to the Internet)
▪ Your Internet service provider should be able to solve the problem.
application service provider
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ Quarterly losses at Freeserve, Britain's biggest internet service provider, doubled to nearly $ 27m.
▪ The national ISPs and bigger on-line service providers made this service available to their customers only in 1995.
commercial
▪ Crompton offers several different case studies where charges of unfair competition are made by the commercial sector provider against the government agency.
▪ Few workshop participants anticipated the fantastic growth of commercial users and providers.
▪ In Bristol, the scheme was set up before other commercial providers were established.
▪ You can enter it through one of the major on-line services, or a smaller commercial provider.
▪ The dismantling of the personal social services would also open the way for commercial providers.
▪ And the commercial providers are not giving up, either.
content
▪ The site www.school-science.co.uk is an approved content provider for the National Grid for Learning and was launched last January.
▪ Doherty said deals with content providers may be announced shortly but declined to elaborate.
financial
▪ It is the incentives under which financial users and providers operate that should take the rap and which require attention.
▪ However, the problem facing financial services providers is that profitability depends on persuading more investors to go online.
▪ Their role as financial information providers is permeating all aspects of business.
independent
▪ As London's largest independent provider of community care we have seen these changes unfold at first hand.
▪ Or try to. Independent Internet service providers have faced problems, too.
internet
▪ They have also signed a deal with Freeserve, the internet service provider, offering direct access for students.
▪ Merit will have the central role in technical coordination for Internet service providers who need to interchange traffic.
▪ The dotcom revolution was driven by the psychology and assumptions of internet service providers rather than knowledge of customer shopping patterns.
▪ You might also find an Internet provider is a better value.
▪ A special Internet Setup Assistant helps users find an Internet access provider.
▪ They are rapidly entering the Internet service provider marketplace.
▪ Some Internet providers offer Netscape Navigator, which has its own e-mail program built in.
▪ But eventually the Internet service providers will have to reliably deliver the services they promise.
large
▪ This will usually entail the larger provider selling the smaller one access to its backbone.
▪ With the acquisition, Verio Northern California becomes the third largest provider for businesses in the region.
▪ As London's largest independent provider of community care we have seen these changes unfold at first hand.
▪ Citibank is the largest provider of securities services in the world.
▪ By far the largest provider of maternity welfare in the south was the Plaistow Maternity Hospital.
▪ Some of the larger service providers tend to restrict the activities of users on the Internet from their networks.
▪ Healthscape, which is signing contracts with large health-insurance providers, plans to overcome those problems.
local
▪ To develop plans successfully agencies will need to work closely with local providers and community representatives.
▪ The growth of some local access providers has been astounding.
▪ Many local providers now have thousands of subscribers, and some are growing at more than 1000 new accounts per month.
▪ And, because local providers serve only a specific area, they may offer better, faster connections for customers.
main
▪ It has become the main provider of affordable home care for the elderly.
▪ Currently highways authorities and main services providers are allowed to cause chaos by digging up roads whenever and wherever they wish.
▪ Sir George Young Housing associations are now the main providers of new subsidised housing.
▪ As well as the lawyers to the investor, lawyers will have been appointed by the buy-out team and by the main debt providers.
▪ After all, Michael was the main provider.
▪ The main providers of such funds are overseas banks, multinational corporations and institutional investors.
▪ But overwhelmingly the state is still the main provider of welfare: Britain has a welfare state.
▪ Resolving the strategic aims of the purchaser and its main provider where these conflict may require difficult negotiations.
major
▪ This was a major provider of not only walking holidays but also package holidays and holiday camps.
▪ Still, the proposal has roiled the stocks of major providers of the service.
▪ One session will look at the role of cities as major providers of huge new leisure facilities and sporting venues.
▪ But Cooper argues that if major Internet providers go along with the plan, it will undermine the legitimacy of the extremists.
▪ They also powerfully helped to shape the subsequent roles and responsibilities of the major providers during the period in the District.
▪ General Household Survey data indicate that the major provider of care for the elderly in Britain is the family.
▪ Carpet manufacture and related activities had been the major provider of employment in the area up until the late 1960s.
national
▪ As a result, local and national Internet service providers sprang up to sell direct dial-up connections to the Internet.
other
▪ There should also be rules to meet the needs of other service providers.
▪ In that way, people can see how effective the organisation is against other providers or against a regional or national average.
▪ Particular emphasis was placed on the links with other service providers in the area.
▪ Banks, accountants, advertising agencies and many other providers of professional services are the camp followers of the multinational army.
private
▪ Mr. Thurnham Does my hon. Friend agree that voluntary groups and private providers can efficiently deliver services for the disabled?
▪ In health care, government can pool risks and use its muscle to keep down costs better than any private provider.
▪ This will ensure that there will be no bias between public and private sector providers.
▪ Other measures include a special needs capital grant to be aimed at projects provided by voluntary organisations and private sector care providers.
regional
▪ Today, all regional providers carry commercial traffic.
▪ With the shift toward commercial traffic plus diminishing federal support, most regional providers have to evolve to fill new roles.
▪ JvNCNet, is a representative example of a regional Internet service provider in the Northeast.
small
▪ For a while, small providers had the Internet-access game largely to themselves.
▪ These are the dominant players in the Internet access hierarchy and provide other smaller service providers with backbone connectivity.
▪ What small providers lack in some areas, they often more than make up for in personal service and added features.
▪ But critics say that small providers are often overcome by their own success.
▪ You can enter it through one of the major on-line services, or a smaller commercial provider.
■ NOUN
access
▪ The growth of some local access providers has been astounding.
▪ Already, Internet access providers and universities have moved to limit certain material.
▪ Verio was recognized for its progression from an Internet-#access provider to an e-commerce and Web hosting leader.
▪ Internet access providers generally charge $ 20 a month but offer an unlimited number of hours per month.
▪ These backbone access providers link users and ecommerce application providers.
▪ A special Internet Setup Assistant helps users find an Internet access provider.
cable
▪ Viacom and other cable providers raise rates periodically throughout the year.
▪ However, this category competes with the telco / cable providers for the same pool of customers.
care
▪ In addition to their other responsibilities local authorities may still continue to be direct care providers if they so wish.
▪ The purchaser may contract with the primary care provider unit instead of primary care teams.
▪ A lot of family care providers have all the toys back on the shelves half way through the day.
▪ A new health care purchasing authority will contract for primary services with individual practices or primary care provider units.
▪ The most important thing to note is whether the family; care provider talks to children in a loving way.
▪ No attempt had been made to vet his suitability as a home care provider, he said.
▪ A compromise bill will likely trim the growth in payments to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers.
information
▪ Internet users fall into two camps, the information providers and the information gatherers.
▪ The product is aimed at universities and information providers that use Macintosh systems.
▪ We are all buck naked before the information providers of this world.
▪ The role of the media as information providers is often overlooked by those who emphasize their overtly political functions.
▪ Their role as financial information providers is permeating all aspects of business.
▪ Phonelink is also developing Tel-me further to handle data from a whole range of information providers.
▪ To do this, the group will need to ally itself strategically to these information providers.
network
▪ Look for multiple, direct connections to other network providers.
service
▪ There should also be rules to meet the needs of other service providers.
▪ Likewise, if new communities choose other, less-costly service providers, will Pima County then reduce overhead and taxes proportionately?
▪ They have also signed a deal with Freeserve, the internet service provider, offering direct access for students.
▪ What more would local leaders and social service providers like to see done to reduce the ominous numbers?
▪ And then it grew, and traders and service providers thought it worthwhile to settle here and go into business.
▪ You may instead be using software from an Internet service provider or from the company that bundled software with your computer.
▪ Hyperlink reference not valid., an experimental Internet service provider.
▪ All service providers require you to buy the local loop segment from your facility to their closest PoP.
training
▪ Many training providers pull out because it is not worth it.
▪ TECs do not themselves provide programmes; they contract out to training providers.
unit
▪ Clinics should be managed within each provider unit to take this into account.
▪ When I started out, nobody had heard of health economics; now every provider unit in the health service wants one.
▪ The purchaser may contract with the primary care provider unit instead of primary care teams.
▪ This could strengthen the hand of managers in the provider units.
▪ The inspection section must work at arm's length from the provider units, and so on.
▪ A new health care purchasing authority will contract for primary services with individual practices or primary care provider units.
■ VERB
become
▪ It has become the main provider of affordable home care for the elderly.
▪ The joint venture, Infostrada, aims at becoming a voice transmission provider in 1998.
▪ An innovation in organisation sectorisation resulted in the regions losing their business roles and becoming purely the providers of services and facilities.
▪ With the acquisition, Verio Northern California becomes the third largest provider for businesses in the region.
lead
▪ Netcom On-Line Communications, the leading provider of Internet access to consumers, was hit especially hard.
▪ Verio is the world's largest operator of Web sites for businesses and a leading provider of comprehensive Internet services.
manage
▪ Clinics should be managed within each provider unit to take this into account.
offer
▪ They have also signed a deal with Freeserve, the internet service provider, offering direct access for students.
▪ This often happens when independent organizations seek to make sense of different providers offering the same service.
▪ Some Internet providers offer Netscape Navigator, which has its own e-mail program built in.
▪ Many card providers offer attractive balance transfer deals.
train
▪ When the Job Training Partnership Act passed in 1982, for instance, it mandated performance-based contracts with training providers.
▪ If Brazelton were in charge, training child-care providers would be a top priority.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a leading provider of personal financial services
▪ day-care providers
▪ schools, colleges and other education providers
▪ The company is now one of the regions main Internet service providers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But critics say that small providers are often overcome by their own success.
▪ Crompton offers several different case studies where charges of unfair competition are made by the commercial sector provider against the government agency.
▪ Currently highways authorities and main services providers are allowed to cause chaos by digging up roads whenever and wherever they wish.
▪ It helped her not to dwell on negatives and improved her role as a provider.
▪ Negotiations between particular TECs and providers must be a matter for those TECs and providers.
▪ This often happens when independent organizations seek to make sense of different providers offering the same service.
▪ What more would local leaders and social service providers like to see done to reduce the ominous numbers?