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单词 development
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development
(dɪveləpmənt )
Word forms: developments
1. uncountable noun B1
Development is the gradual growth or formation of something.
...an ideal system for studying the development of the embryo. [+ of]
First he surveys Islam's development.
2. uncountable noun B1
Development is the growth of something such as a business or an industry. [business]
Education is central to a country's economic development.
What are your plans for the development of your company?
[Also + of]
3. variable noun B1
Development is the process or result of making a basic design gradually better and more advanced.
We are spending $850m on research and development.
...the development of new and innovative telephone services.
Synonyms: establishment, forming, generation, institution  
4. uncountable noun
Development is the process of making an area of land or water more useful or profitable.
The talks will focus on economic development of the region. [+ of]
...the fostering of development in the rural areas.
5. countable noun B2
A development is an event or incident which has recently happened and is likely to have an effect on the present situation.
Police said there had been a significant development in the case.
...the latest developments in Moscow.
What do you think today's developments will mean for him?
Synonyms: event, change, happening, issue  
6. countable noun
A development is an area of houses or buildings which have been built by property developers.
Collocations:
development and marketing
The funding will be used for brand development and marketing.
Times, Sunday Times
The lower profit reflected an 18 per cent rise in development and marketing costs during the period.
Times, Sunday Times
Analysing cost bases and how to generate revenue has taken her into other business areas such as product development and marketing.
Times, Sunday Times
The ideation, development and marketing of next-generation content and services digital and interactive, will flourish.
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He continues to shape the company with his creative contributions to music and in supporting departments including research and development and marketing and sales.
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development director
He became head of the group's technical department and then development director of the heavy organic chemical division.
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Its development director phoned to ask whether he could donate more.
Times,Sunday Times
An onshore wind project director's post currently being advertised offers 80,000 a year; a development director in the same area can expect 50,000.
Times, Sunday Times
He spent time there as business development director and also as sales and marketing director.
Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday we found the post has been split in two, with new roles for a development director and a director of professional rugby.
Times, Sunday Times
development funding
The 11 areas have been given development funding, but will receive the full grant only if successful in a second round of bidding.
Times, Sunday Times
A report published yesterday by the international financing task force warned that development funding shortfalls could reach as much as 30 billion a year by 2015.
Times, Sunday Times
The 574 new units of housing or care home rooms we developed in 2014-15 received zero state development funding, as has been the case for more than five years.
Times, Sunday Times
The biggest increase in research and development funding since 1979 was unveiled, with an additional 4.7 billion to be made available by 2020-21.
Times, Sunday Times
Boosts in research and development funding are also demanded from developed nations, but technological advances cannot be hoarded by those who discover them.
Times, Sunday Times
development goal
Progress on the emissions target makes up part of a sustainable development goal that accounts for 20 per cent of a board director's annual bonus.
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The biggest development goal was to attract a mega-project, such as an aircraft or vehicle assembly plant which would employ thousands.
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The development goal came to be a tank combining all the proven characteristics in proper balance, to which weight and size were only incidentally related.
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Often three to five business-related field goals are connected to a personal development goal (soft aim).
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I would highly recommend that some saving be made by taking the sustainable development goals principles.
Times, Sunday Times
development initiative
The leadership development initiative, which began in 2009, focuses on cultivating leaders through an annual cohort of 20-25 leaders, who receive mentoring and training.
Christianity Today
The $1.1 billion project represents the largest development initiative in the city's history.
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Structure, curriculum, students and even staff are exchanged between the two institutions in a unique international leadership development initiative.
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Online information on industry-specific training, career development initiatives and company-wide skills programmes help people see what's on offer and appropriate for them.
Times, Sunday Times
Neither has a formal consulate or embassy in the other country, but the two governments have cooperated on several development initiatives.
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development of talent
Football should pay special attention to these gaps and prioritise the development of talent from ethnic minority communities in all areas.
Times, Sunday Times
But how many line managers have the development of talent in their job spec?
Times, Sunday Times
He also wished to make possible the development of talent that otherwise would have gone undiscovered.
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It emphasizes the development of talent and promotes professional opportunities.
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If the isolated individual lacks opportunities for personal advancement, development of talents, and action (such as those found on a frontier), he will seek substitutes.
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development phase
The two years must have included an extensive research and development phase.
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Is this a development phase, are we a learning team?
Times, Sunday Times
A spokesman said the decision had been prompted by pressure from private shareholders to cut costs now that the development phase of the technology was ending.
Times, Sunday Times
But in the development phase, they're trying everything.
Globe and Mail
Each development phase will be supported by the centre: technology trials, the introduction of new products and services, production support and field testing and training.
Globe and Mail
development process
Ultimately, as we know, he would like to be working more with the end product of the development process rather than doing the developing himself.
Times, Sunday Times
Teams around the world are working on vaccines, using protocols designed to greatly accelerate the development process, which typically takes at least a decade.
Times,Sunday Times
Handing over the whole training and leadership development process to a single outsourcer risks losing that advantage.
Times, Sunday Times
The film has had less than favourable reviews and also a tricky development process.
The Sun
Past pupils from the matric class of 1979 have come together to drive a campaign that will restore the school through a development process.
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development programme
We have a leadership development programme for senior management.
Times, Sunday Times
Thirty members of the management team filled in the questionnaire and did the twoday development programme.
Times, Sunday Times
However, it said this was because of its development programme, where there was a loss of income from properties being redeveloped and refurbished.
Times, Sunday Times
Those juniors are part of an innovative national development programme that may prove to be the envy of other countries.
Times, Sunday Times
Streetcar, a self-service pay-as-you-go car provider, has places on its entrepreneur development programme.
Times, Sunday Times
development sector
However, she has won the respect of many in the development sector.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite some criticism, the law still stands, and many charities, especially in the aid and development sector, have battle scars to show for it.
Times, Sunday Times
Studying global studies may lead to involvement in the aid and development sector in multiple ways.
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He has an extensive work experience not only in institutions of higher education, but also in the international development sector.
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Competency has different meanings, and continues to remain one of the most diffuse terms in the management development sector, and the organizational and occupational literature.
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development strategy
But it was strongly criticised for failing to nurture talent and establish a workforce development strategy.
Times, Sunday Times
But the province's revised growth and development strategy report revealed that, although there was improved access to services, the province had difficulties in delivering houses.
ST
A squad of 40 players will be taken, among them younger talent who form part of the head coach's development strategy.
Times, Sunday Times
A shift in development strategy became necessary, predicated on the need to generate a net capital inflow.
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In many countries, incubation programs are funded by regional or national governments as part of an overall economic development strategy.
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development training
Continuing professional development training keeps practitioners' knowledge and skill fresh.
Times, Sunday Times
Staff will have the option of finishing early or spending the afternoon on professional development training.
Times, Sunday Times
It also offers professional development training in healthcare and education.
Times,Sunday Times
The workshop will include networking and professional development training and give people a chance to find out about opportunities available at the firm.
Times, Sunday Times
For the best results, leadership development training should be available to all employees.
Christianity Today
dramatic development
The most dramatic development in the field of military robotics, however, has been in the air.
Times, Sunday Times
Locals are not against the dramatic development, or the prospect of hosting the world's biggest sporting festival.
Times, Sunday Times
The pressure on households budgets has led to us putting fewer items in our trolleys and baskets — a dramatic development for a supposedly staid and dependable sector.
Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday's hearing was the second dramatic development this week in the long-running probe.
Globe and Mail
Whether the split proves temporary or permanent, it remains a dramatic development at a pivotal period.
Times, Sunday Times
early development
Furthermore, this study highlights interactions present between sensory systems during early development and sheds light on the cavefish phenotype.
Megan Dufton, Brian K Hall, Tamara A Franz-Odendaal 2012, 'Early lens ablation causes dramatic long-term effects on the shape of bones in the craniofacial skeleton of Astyanax mexicanus.', PLoS ONE
Medical device innovation remains poorly understood, and policymakers disagree over how to incentivize early development.
Aaron S Kesselheim, Shuai Xu, Jerry Avorn 2014, 'Clinicians' contributions to the development of coronary artery stents: a qualitative study of transformative device innovation.', PLoS ONE
The second group of cancers, termed germ cell neoplasia, results from the mislocation of pluripotent stem cells during early development.
Alex Vassilev, Melvin L. DePamphilis 2017, 'Links between DNA Replication, Stem Cells and Cancer', Genes
educational development
The club beefed him up and helped his educational development, arranging psychologists and speech-therapy sessions.
Times, Sunday Times
Employers were more ambivalent about further educational development.
Times, Sunday Times
We are concerned that this system may limit educational development.
Times, Sunday Times
Through its three-century long existence it has become a proud treasurer of memories of educational development in our country.
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These cooperative efforts enable new advances in the complex field of educational development in multilingual and multicultural societies.
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emotional development
If you think of emotional development, the five-phase progression has a balanced, graduated arch with a high point in the middle.
Christianity Today
When a school judges success it should look equally at intellectual progress and emotional development.
Times, Sunday Times
It may affect his emotional development by making him feel frightened and in danger (his memories and nightmares indicate this).
Times, Sunday Times
A quarter fail to reach the expected levels of emotional development for their age.
Times, Sunday Times
The recent government review of the primary curriculum brought calls to reduce subject content in favour of personal and emotional development.
Times, Sunday Times
encourage the development
It's a radical design and shows how monetary crises can encourage the development of note design in new directions.
Times, Sunday Times
The government's proposed reforms encourage the development of brownfield sites.
Times, Sunday Times
Stone fruits, such as plums, cherries and gages, require a cold period to encourage the development of fruit buds.
The Sun
This might encourage the development of larger, longer-range 737s or smaller jets.
Times, Sunday Times
The three want the $25 billion on top of a $25 billion fund already earmarked for the car industry to encourage the development of greener technology.
Times, Sunday Times
facilitate the development
The successful candidate will deliver the stakeholder engagement programme blah blah blah, facilitate the development and delivery of cohesive public engagement yadda yadda... oh, you know the form by now.
Times, Sunday Times
Bilinguals are simultaneously learning and switching between two languages, which may facilitate the development of stronger phonological awareness.
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The larvae are thought to facilitate the development of rot in beech trees by keeping wounds open to the air.
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It would facilitate the development of a wide range of nature-based recreational activities and maximise opportunities for associated business development.
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Another theory posits that some types of cultures facilitate the development of youth culture, while others do not.
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finance the development
Funds raised from the float will be used to finance the development work.
Times, Sunday Times
One reason potential backers were put off was because any new funds would have been used mainly to repay loans rather than finance the development of the company's technology.
Times, Sunday Times
There are no new incentives for this group or for anyone who would like to finance the development of quality, low-cost rental homes.
Times, Sunday Times
This was meant to help finance the development of their spacecraft.
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This won it the election but left it no option but to find a novel way of financing the development of the rundown sites.
Times, Sunday Times
foster the development
Its mission included a mandate to foster the development of new vaccines.
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The award aims to acknowledge individuals making pioneering and substantial contributions to conservation as well as foster the development of future leaders in conservation.
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The colony continues to foster the development of artistic vision.
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I'd also suggest exploring martial arts, which provide an outlet for frustration and anger while also fostering the development of self-control.
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For more than a decade, the government has fostered the development of the fintech industry - largely in an attempt to increase competition following the 2008-9 banking crisis.
Times,Sunday Times
further development
It could lead to further development of improper renal endocrinal and metabolic activity.
V. Turiyski, A. Tolekova, R. Ardasheva, N. Sirakov, K. Velkova, A. Kristev 2018, 'Kidney haemodynamical disorders in abdominal hypertension rats', Trakia Journal of Sciences
These data support the further development of microprojection patches for the deployment of live vaccines in hot climates.
Frances E. Pearson, Celia L. McNeilly, Michael L. Crichton, Clare A. Primiero, Sally R. Yukiko, Germain J. P. Fernando, Xianfeng Chen, Sarah C. Gilbert, Adrian V. S. Hill, Mark A. F. Kendall 2013, 'Dry-Coated Live Viral Vector Vaccines Delivered by Nanopatch Microprojections Retain Long-Term Thermostability and Induce Transgene-Specific T Cell Responses in Mice', PLoS ONE
Proposed precursory design might be a good starting point for further development of compressors.
Kura Tomasz, Fornalik-Wajs Elżbieta 2016, 'Approach to novel design of CO2 based centrifugal compressor', E3S Web of Conferences
future development
Estate agents broadly agree about the need to provide affordable homes and welcome the degree of certainty offered by naming future development areas.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
As a future development, we are looking to make our database interoperable with others.
A Yatagai, Y Tanaka, S Abe, A Shinbori, M Yagi, S UeNo, Y Koyama, N Umemura, M Nosé, T Hori, Y Sato, N O Hashiguchi, N Kaneda, IUGONET project team 2014, 'Interuniversity Upper Atmosphere Global Observation Network (IUGONET) Meta-Database and Analysis Software', Data Science Journal
Lastly, we consider how this knowledge might guide future development of oncolytic viruses.
Chad R. Irwin, Chad R. Irwin, Mary M. Hitt, Mary M. Hitt, David H. Evans, David H. Evans 2017, 'Targeting Nucleotide Biosynthesis: A Strategy for Improving the Oncolytic Potential of DNA Viruses', Frontiers in Oncology
global development
There are many other ways to make a sustained and volunteered contribution to global development.
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Western economies can help by not regarding global development as a zero-sum game.
Times,Sunday Times
This richly documented, very readable and strikingly indignant book shows how a wellmeant global development of our times has gone off the rails.
The Times Literary Supplement
Who should be responsible for the global development of cricket?
Times, Sunday Times
He has also devoted his time and energy to his various urgent projects, creating new strategies to deal with everything from malaria to global development.
Times, Sunday Times
healthy development
I concluded that rapid social and cultural change - junk food, poor sleeping patterns, a screen-based lifestyle, marketing pressures, family upheavals - were interfering with healthy development.
Times, Sunday Times
This appears to be a healthy development.
Christianity Today
They found evidence that exposure to a wide range of common microbes in early life helped to promote healthy development of the immune system.
Times, Sunday Times
It would also be a healthy development for the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
But sales of chart titles are well down on last year, which means that other titles must be selling better, a reversal of recent trends, and a potentially healthy development.
Times, Sunday Times
historical development
It was important to bear in mind the historical development of the right to vote.
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But scholars who study the presidency say that’s a fairly new historical development.
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It was a fateful historical development that the scientific ethos was superseded by superstition for centuries thereafter.
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They look to the historical development of agriculture, arguing that farmers have always adapted to the changing needs of the population and the changing climate.
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It explores formal aspects of comics, the historical development of the medium, its fundamental vocabulary, and various ways in which these elements have been used.
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human development
All have the conflict between birds and human development at their heart, and tell of the struggles conservationists face to protect species.
The Times Literary Supplement
Unfortunately fencing and human development are blocking their paths.
Times, Sunday Times
Every civilisation believes it represents the last word in human development, and that it will endure for ever.
Times, Sunday Times
He rejected that subject as 'not a true science, just a series of competing arbitrary guesses at what was important in human development'.
Times, Sunday Times
Development aid must be targeted at encouraging long-term economic growth, good governance and human development as well as immediate crises.
Times, Sunday Times
industrial development
Four years later the site was made into an industrial development area.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Housing and industrial developments caused further fragmentation of wetlands.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Military strength encouraged industrial development and social order.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
infrastructure development
The windfall gains from land are often the result of public infrastructure development, which should be taxed.
Times, Sunday Times
It has managed to bring construction on all major infrastructure development projects to a grinding halt.
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For politicians, the urgency of reducing the regulatory burden, initiating infrastructure development, clarifying our energy policies and ensuring our borders are both welcoming and efficient has never been greater.
Times, Sunday Times
These statistics hide the even greater danger of failing to take full account of woodland losses from poor planning, infrastructure development, tree disease and intensive land use.
Times, Sunday Times
A 10-year program of regulatory changes, training and infrastructure development would be required.
Globe and Mail
intellectual development
The deficits in socialisation, motivation and intellectual development that they bring to class, through no fault of their own, overwhelm even the best teachers.
Times, Sunday Times
The saddest revelations in the book concern education and intellectual development.
The Times Literary Supplement
Physical, emotional and intellectual development would be stuck.
The Sun
Sporting and intellectual development are not mutually exclusive, of course.
Times, Sunday Times
Almost without exception, a far-sighted professional development plan will include some advanced in-service education focusing upon the pastor's intellectual development.
Christianity Today
interesting development
Two interesting developments are set to fuel further growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
And there has been another interesting development.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It's an interesting development in the world of guitar snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
joint development
In a joint statement the two companies said that they would 'collaborate on a range of strategic initiatives, including joint development of retail solutions'.
Times, Sunday Times
As of 2007 the joint development authority had discovered 8.5 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves, more than enough to swamp the squabble over sovereignty.
Times, Sunday Times
Joint implementation of new technology allowed for joint development of supporting doctrine.
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The name was changed in 1937 as the industry recognized the need for a joint development and standards association and membership grew.
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In addition to tracks and stations, joint development projects are planned to boost development around stations.
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late development
The late development of the prefrontal cortex explains much about adolescents' inability to make good decisions.
Times, Sunday Times
He said the footballer had always been easily swayed and was conscious of his body due to late development.
Times, Sunday Times
This system, modern even by today's standards, was in late development when the war ended.
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Late development of septum between the collar and the peristomium proper.
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They were removed during the late development stages.
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leadership development
Then tell them that you value their leadership development and want to help them succeed.
Christianity Today
So they need to be really savvy about demanding leadership development.
Times, Sunday Times
He has also invested in leadership development and, against his own instincts, offered himself as a very visible figurehead.
Times, Sunday Times
This includes business techniques, leadership development, a technology update and career planning advice, networking events and interviews with employers.
Times, Sunday Times
We believe that our leadership development will provide a strong base for the new people we hope to reach in the next few years.
Christianity Today
learning development
Candidates who want to become chief financial officers, for instance, can follow its own two-year learning development programme.
Times, Sunday Times
School psychologists administer assessments and address difficulties all students face in psychological, social, personal, emotional, and educational/learning development.
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Provision for strongly performing students and the extent to which a broader base of students should engage with learning development are both currently debated issues.
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long-term development
But it was essential for the company's long-term development.
Times, Sunday Times
There are often moments in an individual's career that turn out to be pivotal to their long-term development.
Times, Sunday Times
Clubs can also spend freely on long-term development items such as stadium upgrades, academies, training facilities and youth teams, which are allowable expenses.
Times, Sunday Times
For it to work, he will need time to change a culture whereby the pursuit of trophy success has come at the expense of long-term development.
Times, Sunday Times
I would never stand in anybody's way and the money we got was right for the long-term development of our club.
Times, Sunday Times
major development
And, as a result, every major development slightly startles you.
Times, Sunday Times
Although we will have debts for some years to come as a result of the major development we are undertaking, they are quite manageable.
Times, Sunday Times
They are both excited and nervous about this major development.
The Sun
It’s living history that’s converged with every major development, every milestone in the field, every brainstorm because each idea somehow implements and builds on another before it.
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The other major development was in the art of dealing.
Times, Sunday Times
management development
The firm has also introduced a series of management development seminars.
Times, Sunday Times
Lower down on the list comes management development.
Times, Sunday Times
A management development programme has also been introduced to enhance the skills and knowledge of managers at all levels of the council.
Times, Sunday Times
A new management development programme provides monthly workshops on a variety of areas including recruitment and selection, and coaching skills.
Times, Sunday Times
A management development programme has been in place for more than five years and has received positive feedback from staff.
Times, Sunday Times
nuclear development
And this in the early stages of nuclear development.
Times, Sunday Times
The spokesman added that it could slow down its own nuclear development plans 'quite markedly'.
Times, Sunday Times
This optimization usually requires a large nuclear development organization supported by a sovereign nation.
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Sharif also responded to use the nuclear development in more of economical usage, benefited for the country's economy and its extension to the civil society.
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During his time, the nuclear development, economic issues, and political stability, was considered his presidency's highest priority.
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ongoing development
Every 15 to 18 months, staff members meet for team-building workshops, and further performance management sessions also foster ongoing development.
Times, Sunday Times
It's just the name of the extraordinarily versatile, ongoing development of human relations and structure.
Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, the ongoing development continues throughout the night.
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The two games would be the start of an ongoing development of the series.
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His understanding of the aspects of planning and of the necessities of an ongoing development grew decisively, in this period.
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oversee development
There he oversaw development of an innovative construction system for army buildings.
Times, Sunday Times
He donated manuscripts to the shrine that are among the treasures in its collection and oversaw development of its buildings, making improvements that could accommodate larger numbers of pilgrims.
Times, Sunday Times
She also oversaw development of a campus growth master plan that allowed the campus to expand to accommodate 18,000 students.
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They act as intermediaries between the village and the organization, overseeing development projects and allocating funds.
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During this lengthy term, he oversaw development of the state's road system, as well as a general process of modernization.
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personal development
They grow quickly as footballers, but at the expense of proper personal development.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
'My fifties have been a fantastic time of personal development.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They have significantly more choices and the autonomy to pursue a professional career and personal development rather than marriage and motherhood.
Mail and Guardian (2010)
policy development
Several sources said that no policy development work was carried out on the fund before it was announced.
Times,Sunday Times
Government departments provide a mixture of policy development, project delivery and administration.
Times, Sunday Times
If delivery were explored thoroughly as part of policy development - as happens in business - more problems could be headed off at the pass.
Times, Sunday Times
Policy development has therefore arrived at a crossroads.
Times, Sunday Times
It gets 6.9 million from taxpayer-funded 'short money' and policy development grants.
Times, Sunday Times
positive development
Nearly 80 per cent of concerned consumers said that decisions by manufacturers to make more traditional games was a positive development.
Times, Sunday Times
But, by and large, there was a great deal of positive development of the islands.
Times, Sunday Times
For the progress of the army has been a positive development over the past 12 months.
Times, Sunday Times
But there are those who do not see this as a positive development.
Times, Sunday Times
That has to be a largely positive development.
Times, Sunday Times
potential development
It will get as much as 118 million per programme in potential development, regulatory and commercial milestones and up to double-digit royalties on future sales.
Times, Sunday Times
If you're ambitious, you can join the high potential development scheme for fast-track promotion.
The Sun
There's a lot of potential development - you could build penthouse flats on the top.
Times, Sunday Times
The dispute relates to potential development of large parts of the stadium.
Times, Sunday Times
You don't need a large garden with room for an extra house to cash in on potential development value.
Times, Sunday Times
professional development
For example, in 56 per cent of organisations, individuals became more motivated to further their own professional development.
Times, Sunday Times
But he claimed the extreme driving was self-assessment as part of his continuing professional development and, as such, he was exempt from traffic laws.
The Sun
It requires all the coaches to be better qualified and to commit to continuous professional development programmes.
Times, Sunday Times
Professional development and spiritual growth are crucial to any ministry, including music.
Christianity Today
Professional development opportunity: a nightmare project that no one else wants.
Times, Sunday Times
project development
Afternoons are for admin, meetings and project development.
Times, Sunday Times
The joint venture will specialise in project development and the construction of such power plants.
Times, Sunday Times
It identified civil, mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering as key areas, as well as project development and management skills.
Times, Sunday Times
Their time commitment can change throughout the project depending on the project development stage.
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The software requirements specification document enlists enough and necessary requirements that are required for the project development.
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promote development
Our treatment will promote development so that whatever was driving them into gaming becomes less of a problem.
Times, Sunday Times
Launched in 2004, the project has forged partnerships with organisations working in those fields to promote development.
Times, Sunday Times
He or she would promote development, lead strategic planning and encourage inward investment.
Times, Sunday Times
The firm has a range of resources to promote development, from leadership and management training, through to craft skills and study for professional qualifications.
Times, Sunday Times
He warned that the global downturn would undermine efforts to eradicate poverty and disease, fight climate change and promote development.
Times, Sunday Times
rapid development
We have now successfully created a start-up culture: rapid development, rapid deployment.
Times, Sunday Times
Just be aware that the years between you are usually ones of rapid development and changes.
The Sun
In the 1990s the rapid development of the internet and the personal computer gave rise to unjustified optimism.
Times, Sunday Times
Rapid development has evicted farmers from their land.
Mail and Guardian
His rapid development of bad breath, vomiting and exhaustion proved the drastic experiment a success, and silenced his sceptical peers.
Times, Sunday Times
real estate development
Much of the cash burn, it should be said, stems from the real estate development operations, which the company has hived off into joint ventures.
Globe and Mail
The company's activities include: shipping, construction of containers and ships, management of ports, and engineering and real estate development.
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Engineering included highways, bridges, ski lifts and aerial tramways, subdivisions, real estate development and utilities.
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By the end of the 70s, the company started to leave the real estate development and refocused itself on tourist services.
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He then work in real estate development and sales.
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recent development
She's earned the right to be cussed, and it's not, she says, as if it's a recent development.
Times, Sunday Times
The most recent development plan will combine a cinema, restaurant and bar, and 140 homes, but no new retail units.
Times, Sunday Times
His outdoor practice sessions are a recent development, begun at the request of more friendly neighbours.
Times, Sunday Times
But they are a recent development, he says.
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A ground-floor one-bedroom flat in an uninspiring 1970s block costs 155,950, and a two-bedroom flat on the first floor of a more recent development 230,000.
Times, Sunday Times
residential development
About £14 billion of residential development loans could be partially written off if values fall later in the year.
Times,Sunday Times
Interested bidders will include housebuilders, because most of the value in the site lies in its potential for residential development.
Times, Sunday Times
Today its residential development plots are worth a cool 2.2 billion.
Times, Sunday Times
A 1,000-bed private residential development, which opened last year, has ensured that those who accept places before clearing are guaranteed university accommodation.
Times, Sunday Times
It intends to build homes there if it can achieve a change of consent from office use to residential development.
Times, Sunday Times
resource development
Their skills are diverse and include agricultural expertise, knowledge of languages, project management, and personnel and resource development.
Times, Sunday Times
Proper governance and human resource development remain critically important especially for social and economic transformation.
Times, Sunday Times
The areas included infrastructure, telecoms, technology, mineral resource development and insurance.
Times, Sunday Times
He was minister of human resource development between 1996 and 1999.
Globe and Mail
Over the last decades, these organizations have provided millions of dollars to invest for infrastructure, human resource development, public administration reform.
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scientific development
After that, we deal with such issues as music, pedagogy, the history of scientific development.
Times, Sunday Times
This week he launched an avatar of himself wearing a lab coat to promote scientific development around the country.
Times, Sunday Times
These books detail the contents of some new interdisciplinary trends in social research and substantiate the necessity for their profound scientific development.
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Students gain opportunities to engage with, and deeply examine the impact of scientific development on their lives from a critical and informed perspective.
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The intense culture, fertilizers and scientific development, raised the yield to 43 bushels per acre (2.89 t/ha) in 1936.
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significant development
The latter seems to be the case now; there has been no significant development for three days.
Times, Sunday Times
United's angst will be magnified by the other significant development of 2013.
Times, Sunday Times
They also hailed it as the most significant development in tackling sight loss.
The Sun
Despite the significant development below ground, the raised front gardens with immaculate lawns and topiary have been largely unaffected.
Times, Sunday Times
Each of these elements would be a significant development in its own right.
Times, Sunday Times
skills development
Employees must also be flexible, participate in skills development and help to drive productivity from the ground up.
Times, Sunday Times
But a retention policy must include an investment in skills development.
ST
I hold two portfolios: head of unit for early childhood development, and skills development facilitator.
ST
The campus has benefited from a 13m improvement programme and resources now include a learning cafe to encourage skills development within a sociable environment.
Times, Sunday Times
By including education and skills development as well as housing opportunities for prison leavers, we can help reduce reoffending and homelessness.
Times,Sunday Times
social development
Confrontations over intellectual property rights flourish in a digital age where the production and possession of information becomes critical to economic and social development.
The Times Literary Supplement
Economic and social development has been accompanied by big reductions in birth rates and the emergence of smaller families as the norm.
Times, Sunday Times
Social development was urgently needed if growing discontent was to be contained.
Times,Sunday Times
It would not only stimulate minds, but would be a springboard for academic and social development.
Times, Sunday Times
This causes issues with emotional and social development, as well as self-awareness and self-confidence.
Times, Sunday Times
software development
This approach adds up to a thriving software development business and happy employees.
Times, Sunday Times
There are opportunities in a number of areas, from cyber security and software development to research and innovation.
The Sun
Its main services include business analysis, project management and software development.
Times, Sunday Times
There are 730 places available on the firm's sought-after traineeships in areas including finance, software development, engineering, customer service and logistics.
The Sun
Programmes being introduced this year include artificial intelligence, software development, internet computing and electronic commerce computing, all with a year in industry.
Times, Sunday Times
spiritual development
Yet they are frequently linked with spiritual development in people, especially when others effectively come alongside.
Christianity Today
Now it seems to me the pastor has authority in any of our polities to provide authentic spiritual development.
Christianity Today
These nuggets of knowledge will stick with them and contribute to their overall spiritual development.
Christianity Today
I am building up to being involved in funerals, baptisms and weddings, preparing people for confirmation and helping people in spiritual development.
Times, Sunday Times
Nearly all my spiritual development related to my work.
Christianity Today
spur development
To spur development, the residents voted to allow alcohol sales in the community before they were bought out.
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The ban has been rationalized as an attempt to spur development of local processing facilities, thereby boosting the economy and recouping profits.
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Hoping to spur development in the village, he invested in land and businesses in the area.
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A period of high oil and gas prices spurred developments in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling technologies, which made it commercially viable to extract hydrocarbons from shale and tight rock.
Times, Sunday Times
Tourism flourished and increased foreign contact spurred development.
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staff development
Managers take responsibility for staff development through the appraisal process and general performance management.
Times, Sunday Times
Managers support staff development, and people appreciate this, giving a 78% score.
Times, Sunday Times
Directors aim to spend a quarter of their time on staff development, and people say senior managers really live the values of the firm (76%).
Times, Sunday Times
To address the need for staff development, a programme of training needs has been drawn up.
ST
The survey also shows that there's work to be done if employers are to be persuaded to invest in staff development.
Times, Sunday Times
stage of development
However, the technologies to convert oil to jet fuel are at a more advanced stage of development and yield higher energy efficiency than other sources.
Smithsonian Mag
Then place two carnation stems at the same stage of development into each vase.
The Sun
And what can move your group to a new stage of development and fruitfulness?
Christianity Today
I mostly go for unlisted firms that are at an early stage of development.
Times, Sunday Times
These back small firms that are at an early stage of development and are therefore riskier investments.
Times, Sunday Times
stimulate the development
As ideas come to the mind, they are captured and stimulate the development of better ideas.
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When sprayed on flowers, any of the plant hormones gibberellin, auxin and cytokinin can often stimulate the development of parthenocarpic fruit.
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During the 1950s and 1960s, the development of specific angling tools for bass significantly increased angler bass catches and helped stimulate the development of the sport.
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The prosperity of the cities also stimulated the development of education and the arts.
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Furthermore, promotes economic growth because the investment in this kind of transport stimulates the development of new technologies.
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subsequent development
Subsequent development of the commercial centre and the docks has been clumsily managed, giving the city an incongruous image.
Times, Sunday Times
The title can barely be trusted, since the poem's opening may seem to have nothing to do with it, nor its subsequent development.
The Times Literary Supplement
This means that they are not in areas that will have unbridled subsequent development, and can usually be reached by light aircraft.
Times, Sunday Times
The game has been in development since 2008, and had an initial planned 2010 release, but subsequent development pushed the game back into 2012.
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Subsequent development and annexation brought the population to 1195 by 1990.
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suburban development
Look at the section of the display that explores suburban development, for instance.
Times, Sunday Times
They have also been devised to take into account a factor that's given little weight in the ordinary suburban development sales room: the option of strong personal initiative.
Globe and Mail
The road runs through a mix of suburban development.
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The route continues north through wooded suburban development.
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By 1980, suburban development had saturated the community.
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support development
In addition, she would top-slice the subsidies to big farms and use the cash to support rural development.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The funding will support the development of new social housing by housing associations and will fund improvements to existing properties.
Times,Sunday Times (2020)
' Colleges also play a leading part in supporting the development of communities.
The Sun (2008)
technological development
The pace of technological development usually renders older titles obsolete very quickly.
Times, Sunday Times
But a recent technological development may offer a solution.
ST
I can't see the point in cosmetic surgery, not at this stage in its technological development.
Times,Sunday Times
Dance embraces technological development, but it's always a balance with budgets.
Times, Sunday Times
The executives said that such a move would benefit the environment and create wealth because it would lead to technological development that could be exported.
Times, Sunday Times
technology and development
Cheap, powerful technology and development tools seeded a burgeoning 'indie' world of developers who created games with themes different from traditional fare.
Times, Sunday Times
This triple alliance allows for the increased sharing of technology and development costs, encouraging global cooperation and mutual development.
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In this critique technology and development have alienated people from the natural world.
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Her interests are in the broad areas of science, technology and development and are grounded in her technical background and education in the biological sciences.
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Since then, it has put efforts in the introduction of new technologies and development of products, while expanding the business area into heavy equipment and construction.
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trace the development of
Rather, they trace the development of a moral compass in one human being.
The Times Literary Supplement
This impressive four-disc compilation of some (not all) of his orchestral essays allows one readily to trace his development.
Times, Sunday Times
This show aims to trace his development through portraiture.
Times, Sunday Times
You can trace the development of the family saloon alongside that of the mobile phone.
Times, Sunday Times
The stories are arranged chronologically, which allows the reader to trace the development of the author's technique.
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youth development
He also ponders whether the 12 million from the last television rights deal, which had been earmarked for youth development, has been used wisely.
Times, Sunday Times
His football was thought too functional, his interest in youth development too superficial.
Times, Sunday Times
We have a youth development centre to run.
Times, Sunday Times
That applies, too, to the issue of youth development.
Times, Sunday Times
It's probably a bit much, too, to hear all that talk about 'youth development'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chinese: 发展
Japanese: 発展
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