nation
na‧tion S3 W2 /ˈneɪʃən/ noun [COUNTABLE] [Word Family: noun: nation, national, multinational, nationalism, nationalist, nationality, nationalization, nationhood, international, internationalism, internationalist, internationalization; adjective: national, international, multinational, nationalist, nationalistic, nationalized, internationalist; verb: nationalize, internationalize; adverb: nationally, internationally] [date : 1200-1300; Language : French; Origin : Latin natio, from natus, past participle of nasci 'to be born'] 1. a country, considered especially in relation to its people and its social or economic structure: ▪ the President’s radio broadcast to the nation ▪ an independent nation ▪ the world’s leading industrial nations
2. a large group of people of the same race and language: ▪ the Cherokee nation • • • COLLOCATIONS adjectives ▪a great/powerful nation ▪ The United States is the most powerful nation in the world. ▪an independent/sovereign nation (=one that rules itself, rather than being run by another country) ▪ Countries that were once colonies of Britain are now independent nations. ▪an industrial/industrialized nation ▪ The rich industrial nations dominate the global economy. ▪a developed/advanced nation (=one that has many industries) ▪ In the developed nations, many students go on to university. ▪a developing/emerging nation (=one that is starting to have more industry) ▪ Food shortages are often a problem in developing nations. ▪a rich/wealthy nation ▪ Most tourists come from the wealthy nations of the world. ▪a poor nation ▪ The high cost of medicines in poor nations prevents many citizens from receiving health care. verbs ▪lead a nation ▪ He led the nation out of a depression and into a period of growth and prosperity. ▪face a nation ▪ There are many problems facing our nation. ▪unite a nation (=make everyone in a country agree) ▪ The crisis seemed to unite the nation. ▪divide a nation (=make people in a nation disagree) ▪ The war has divided the nation. ▪shock a nation (=make everyone in a nation feel shocked) ▪ This terrible crime has shocked the whole nation.
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a member state/country/nation (=a country that belongs to an international organization) ▪ the member states of the European Union developed countries/nations developing countries/nations ▪ aid to developing countries Francophone countries/nations/communities industrial countries/nations/states ▪ a meeting of the world’s major industrial nations nation state ▪ European union is seen as a threat to the sovereignty of the nation state. subjugated people/nation/country sweep the country/nation/state etc ▪ a wave of nationalism sweeping the country United Nations COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADJECTIVE entire ▪ Theirs is a tragedy for our entire nation. ▪ All groups should enthusiastically coordinate their social and economic activities to achieve the good of the entire nation. ▪ What is good for the food industry can be fatally bad for the health of the entire nation. ▪ Probably not, although there is no uniform law on this question applicable to the entire nation. ▪ Complete public humiliation in front of the entire nation is a prospect likely to make a man reckless, desperate even. ▪ Imagine an entire nation of people missing their mutton. ▪ It was an entire nation of pragmatists, each individual swaying with the prevailing wind to ensure his or her own future. ▪ It must involve the total mobilization of the creative energies, imagination and problem-solving capacities of the entire nation. industrial ▪ No advanced industrial nation gives corporations a freer hand in busting unions. ▪ The conference, bringing together the world's seven leading industrial nations, centred on trade talks. ▪ Seatbelt-use rates are higher in other industrial nations than in the United States. ▪ The major, Western industrial nations are today using 17% less energy per unit of economic growth than they were in 1973. ▪ He remains a federal employee and is handling preparations for the upcoming meeting of the seven major industrial nations. ▪ We were then the greatest industrial nation on earth. ▪ In the end the Group of Seven leading industrial nations supported the debt relief campaign for two reasons. other ▪ If other nations want the data, they should share the costs, it says. ▪ Almost all the characteristics that I enumerate apply to other nations in one way or another. ▪ If he can alter the fortunes of the superpower state for the better, other nations will follow. ▪ They go about this work, however, in a way somewhat different from computer firms in other nations. ▪ The policy traditions are again quite distinctive in other nations. ▪ What other nation can not even settle on its own name? ▪ Now, finally, Taylor is urging some one to climb above the heap. Other nations always have. poor ▪ Greater stability would give poorer nations the opportunity to reduce their own military expenditure. ▪ Eighty percent of the legal needs of the poor of our nation, mostly minorities, are not met. ▪ This runs parallel with the use of force to suppress uprisings in poor nations against policies of these same institutions. ▪ One such factor is economic: Poor nations are simply unable to afford environmentally sound consumption and production practices. ▪ But the poorer nations would also have to accept binding targets for cutting emissions. ▪ We are a poor, underdeveloped nation. ▪ Global surpluses can likewise be meaningless to the dozens of poor nations that have overwhelming demands placed on slim foreign exchange reserves. rich ▪ The education target is in even more danger unless richer nations act. / Happy as Lowry? ▪ Around the globe, the richer nations have made easing the overcrowding of third world cities a top aid priority. ▪ The rich industrial nations dominate the global economy, they believe. ▪ His are the kind, I must suppose, that make men rich and nations prosperous. ▪ In 1993, for every dollar given in aid rich nations took back three in debt repayments. ▪ The Soviet Union has the potential to be one of the richest nations on earth. ▪ While poor countries have liberalised their markets, rich nations have remained protectionist, especially in areas such as textiles and agriculture. ▪ Encouragement and funding by richer nations could establish more national parks, essential for preserving the many different kinds of forest. western ▪ The major, Western industrial nations are today using 17% less energy per unit of economic growth than they were in 1973. ▪ This same change of emphasis has occurred in the industry of all the Western industrial nations. ▪ Most Western nations tolerate Salmonella in chickens and scrapie in sheep, but this must change. ▪ But leading Western nations argued that the Bank management had not considered its environmental and social effects properly. ▪ The Marxist tradition emphasises the dominance of capital in the economy of western nations. ▪ This is tragedy, completely unacceptable when comfortable Western nations are replete with food, and waste huge amounts of it. whole ▪ Regional unemployment and regional recession are an economic loss to the whole nation and they will not rectify themselves on their own. ▪ In these samples, less than a few thousand people may represent a whole nation of viewers. ▪ Champion recovered from cancer during 1979 / 80 to make a recovery that the whole nation could marvel at. ▪ A whole nation, all of civilized society, perhaps, seeking the blameless state of madness. ▪ Far better condemn the whole nation to watching television. ▪ He called forth again the language of the elect, but turned it from the Puritan community to the whole nation. ▪ I hope that the decision taken tonight will be to the benefit of the whole nation. ▪ Formerly, the rich depended in some way on the well-being of the whole nation. NOUN member ▪ All member nations who wish to be represented are allowed to have one vote - nomatterhow large or small the nations are. ▪ He sees the United Nations not simply as bloated, but as encroaching dangerously and purposefully on the sovereignty of member nations. ▪ Such information is to be forwarded to other member nations by the Commission. state ▪ We have been a nation state for a very long time. ▪ The bottom line was that in the Soviet Union, as in every other nation state in history, money talked. ▪ On the one hand they are rebuilding in Berlin the grandiose capital of a restored nation state. ▪ These constitute the basis upon which the very possibility of a nation state rests. ▪ And people live still inside nation states with all their dense allegiances and histories. ▪ First, collecting relevant data on the independent nation states of the world can be difficult and time-consuming. ▪ The extension of the method to aggregate data on nation states will certainly follow, but will involve more complicated techniques. ▪ Virtually all nation states are multi-national, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-cultural. VERB become ▪ Answer: We are becoming a nation without culture. ▪ Neither became nation states until the nineteenth century. ▪ Britain became an elderly nation before others started to turn grey. ▪ I believe that generosity becomes less between nations, as the world economy heads for a more frightening decline. develop ▪ And we claim to be a developed nation. ▪ At the same time, developing nations are growing more and more thirsty for energy as their industries grow. ▪ In the years since, developing nations have closed the gap with remarkable speed. ▪ Sensitive to such shortcomings, family planning agencies in many developing nations have taken steps to make services more accessible. ▪ The average person in a developing nation consumes only 1, 031 pounds of food. ▪ One obvious way for developing nations to get the money is for outside donors to give it to them. ▪ The competition between the superpowers to purchase the friendship of developing nations was over. ▪ So far we have concentrated on the future of the developed nations. lead ▪ But it is becoming increasingly important that an accord on foreign corporate investment is negotiated between leading industrial nations. ▪ But leading Western nations argued that the Bank management had not considered its environmental and social effects properly. ▪ California leads the nation in shifting to managed care, with San Diego County in the vanguard. ▪ Above all: Is Clinton ready to lead the nation? PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES England is a nation of shopkeepers the United Nations EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ industrialized nations ▪ Japan has become one of the richest nations in the world. ▪ Representatives from the world's leading industrial nations will meet in Geneva. ▪ The President's speech to the nation lasted about ten minutes. ▪ We are a nation of both great wealth and terrible poverty. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But this cautious, adroit, enigmatic leader seemed for long to be very much what the nation and the times required. ▪ Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. ▪ For a host of reasons, the nation today has much for which to be thankful. ▪ Now, with the morning Times on breakfast tables across the nation, the news was out. ▪ Statistics show that there are three million women in this nation supporting themselves in the crowded cities of the East. ▪ The possibility of resistance lay in an appeal to the sovereign nation in the form of the mob.
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