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nation 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
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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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