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单词 maternity
释义
maternity1 adjectivematernity2 noun
maternityma‧ter‧ni‧ty1 /məˈtɜːnəti $ -ɜːr-/ ●○○ adjective [only before noun] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Maternity clothes are more stylish than they used to be.
  • maternity clothes
  • a maternity hospital
  • Most women who take maternity leave look forward to returning to their jobs.
  • Which way to the maternity ward?
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But the maternity unit is widely expected to close at the end of this month.
  • In addition, co-anchor Katie Couric is currently on maternity leave.
  • In the high-visibility, emotionally compelling cases such as maternity stays, an uproar resulted.
  • It seems the merest flash since Jack and I were gingerly bringing home our own babies from the maternity wards.
  • Laws extending health insurance and maternity leave?
  • Rarely have they bargained aggressively for benefits such as maternity leave or more help with child care.
  • She learned to sew and made maternity smocks he tried to admire.
  • The present 18 weeks maternity leave will be extended to 26 weeks.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorfor or relating to a woman who is going to have a baby
: maternity care/ward/ leave etc for women who are going to have a baby or have just had a baby: · Maternity clothes are more stylish than they used to be.· Most women who take maternity leave look forward to returning to their jobs.· Which way to the maternity ward?
also antenatal British: antenatal classes/clinic/care etc classes etc that provide special care for women who are going to have a baby: · Pregnant teenagers often do not want to attend antenatal classes.· Towards the end of a pregnancy, doctors recommend more frequent prenatal check-ups.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
(=money that the government or employers give to a woman after she has had a baby)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=for women who are having a baby)
British English (=for women having babies)· Many maternity hospitals have been forced to close.
(=time that a mother is allowed away from work to have and take care of a new baby)· Two teachers were off on maternity leave.
(=pay while a woman takes time off to have a baby)· If you have worked here a year, you are entitled to 3 month’s maternity pay.
(=a ward for people with a particular medical condition)
(=for pregnant women)· The shop sells comfortable and fashionable maternity wear for every occasion.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· The present 18 weeks maternity leave will be extended to 26 weeks.· In addition, co-anchor Katie Couric is currently on maternity leave.· And paid maternity leave will go up from 18 to 24 weeks.· Rarely have they bargained aggressively for benefits such as maternity leave or more help with child care.· As the days remaining in her six-week maternity leave fizzled away, she wavered back and forth.· Sattel says Lucasfilm offers paid one-week paternity and adoption leaves; maternity leaves are usually covered by disability programs.
· It seems the merest flash since Jack and I were gingerly bringing home our own babies from the maternity wards.· She kept busy in the maternity ward faxing lists back to the office.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • Accumulating days for sick leave proved to be a trap.
  • Generally a trend of sick leave or requests for transfers by other women who have worked for this person will emerge.
  • I could take the afternoon off from work as sick leave.
  • If the technology is not firm-wide train an extra secretary to cover for others who are on holiday or sick leave.
  • Joe and Eileen were given short compassionate leave and Stephen came home for the funeral.
  • She was then shown a picture taken at the farewell party at Champion Spark Plugs just before Paula went on maternity leave.
  • These work-force-centered benefits helped businesses retain their most valuable employees. Sick leave policies changed.
  • When they go on sick leave, their aggregate take-home pay is actually higher than when they are on the job.
 relating to a woman who is pregnant or who has just had a baby → paternity:  a maternity dressmaternity benefits/pay etc (=money that the government or employers give to a woman after she has had a baby)
maternity1 adjectivematernity2 noun
maternitymaternity2 noun [uncountable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But also the whole agenda of maternity and child welfare and its subsequent implementation was promoted by the guild.
  • Enormous improvements have been made there and £1m was provided in 1989 for new maternity and ante natal facilities.
  • The predictions are that this will go further to encompass accident and emergency, maternity and even psychiatry.
word sets
WORD SETS
afterbirth, nounantenatal, adjectiveartificial insemination, nounbaby blues, nounbarren, adjectivebarrier method, nounbear, verbbirth control, nounbreast-feed, verbbreech birth, nouncaesarean, nouncap, nounchildbearing, nounchildbirth, nounconceive, verbconfinement, nouncontraception, nouncontraction, nounC-section, noundeliver, verbdelivery, noundiaphragm, nounDutch cap, nounembryo, nounembryology, nouneugenics, nounfamily planning, nounfertility, nounfertility drug, nounfertilize, verbfetal, adjectivefetus, nounfoetal position, nounfoetus, nounfull-term, adjectivegestation, noungonad, nounincubator, nouninduce, verbinduction, nouninfant mortality rate, nouninfertile, adjectiveIUD, nounIVF, nounmaternal, adjectivematernity, nounmidwife, nounmidwifery, nounmilk, nounmiscarriage, nounmiscarry, verbmorning-after pill, nounmorning sickness, nounmother-to-be, nounmum-to-be, nounnatal, adjectivenatural, adjectivenatural childbirth, nounneuter, verbnurse, verbobstetrics, nounoral contraceptive, nounoviduct, nounovulate, verbovum, nounperinatal, adjectivepostnatal, adjectivepreemie, nounpregnancy, nounpregnant, adjectivepremature, adjectivepresentation, nounprocreate, verbproduce, verbquickening, nounreproduce, verbreproduction, nounreproductive, adjectiverhythm method, nounspay, verbsterile, adjectivesterilize, verbstillbirth, nounstillborn, adjectivestretch mark, nounsurrogate mother, nounswaddle, verbswaddling clothes, nountermination, nountest-tube baby, nountrimester, nounultrasound, nounumbilical cord, noununborn, adjectivewean, verbzygote, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=for women who are having a baby)
British English (=for women having babies)· Many maternity hospitals have been forced to close.
(=time that a mother is allowed away from work to have and take care of a new baby)· Two teachers were off on maternity leave.
(=pay while a woman takes time off to have a baby)· If you have worked here a year, you are entitled to 3 month’s maternity pay.
(=a ward for people with a particular medical condition)
(=for pregnant women)· The shop sells comfortable and fashionable maternity wear for every occasion.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· The charter covers not only salaries, a minimum wage and maternity benefit but deals with many issues.· A 30s. maternity benefit was to be paid to the wives of insured men.· The new system should, it was argued, include family allowances, maternity benefits and provision for widows.
· Rituals and Cults Childbirth classes; procedures and routines of maternity hospitals and midwifery.· My wife still knows a person born shortly after her at the same maternity hospital.· He's using a veterinary ultrasound scanner adapted from machines used in maternity hospitals.· Our study population comprised men born in one maternity hospital during 1907-24.
· The University has a generous maternity leave scheme.· Britain also objected to the new directive on maternity leave.· I am working part-time, but my maternity leave begins next month.· A few weeks earlier she had taken maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plugs factory in Upton.· Women with less than one year's service are eligible to apply for unpaid maternity leave.· Maternity benefits and an increase in maternity leave are also being offered by some companies.· Angela was working part-time when she took her second period of maternity leave.
· You may also be entitled to departmental maternity pay during some of this period.· What if we have our own maternity pay scheme?· She got full maternity leave and prorata maternity pay.· The rate of maternity pay will be no lower than the Statutory Sick Pay rate.· An agreement was reached yesterday which represents a sensible balance on maternity pay.
· But now Banbury doctors are worried about that department's future, along with the childrens ward, and the maternity unit.· Kim's story Kim gave birth to baby Rosie earlier this year, in a large maternity unit in outer London.· He remembered the maternity unit - long closed, the day care centre and the wards, all with their characteristics.· Their local maternity unit was working overtime.· Display material and literature relevant to restraint of infants have been posted in hospitals and maternity units in the Region.· Our analysis is based on the 17 maternity units that sent data from 1985 until 1989 without interruption.· Later that evening she went into labour and was transferred to the maternity unit.
· Sands will also raise funds for the maternity ward at Darlington Memorial Hospital.· And we spent all day in maternity ward.· You won't be surprised to hear that Sangenic is already being used in maternity wards.
VERB
· She reckons if she takes time off for maternity leave she won't get back in.· A few weeks earlier she had taken maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plugs factory in Upton.· So it's pretty unusual ... So in fact I took maternity leave only up to the maximum.· Make sure that your employees know: they must tell you at least 21 days before they plan to take maternity leave.· After becoming pregnant, she made arrangements to take maternity leave from November 1990 to February 1991.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • Accumulating days for sick leave proved to be a trap.
  • Generally a trend of sick leave or requests for transfers by other women who have worked for this person will emerge.
  • I could take the afternoon off from work as sick leave.
  • If the technology is not firm-wide train an extra secretary to cover for others who are on holiday or sick leave.
  • Joe and Eileen were given short compassionate leave and Stephen came home for the funeral.
  • She was then shown a picture taken at the farewell party at Champion Spark Plugs just before Paula went on maternity leave.
  • These work-force-centered benefits helped businesses retain their most valuable employees. Sick leave policies changed.
  • When they go on sick leave, their aggregate take-home pay is actually higher than when they are on the job.
 the state of being a mother
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