security screening
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsecurityandscreening
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security
noun
uk/sɪˈkjʊə.rə.ti/us/səˈkjʊr.ə.t̬i/
protection of a person, building, organization, or country against threats such as crime or attacks by ...
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screening
noun
uk/ˈskriː.nɪŋ/us/ˈskriː.nɪŋ/
a showing of ...
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(Definition ofsecurityandscreeningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Again the national aviation security programme requires cargo other than that from known shippers to be subject tosecurityscreeningprocedures.
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I believe that the delay arose because, after 7 o'clock, thesecurityscreeningfacilities are reduced from three screens to one.
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Increasing the number ofsecurityscreeningmachines from two to only three strikes me as a missed opportunity.
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One advantage of the proposal in the report is that a propersecurityscreeningbuilding would be built, with three bays instead of two.
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Securityscreeningwill be an essential and integral part of the enlistment process.
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We are undertakingsecurityscreeningof those coming into the country, which would not be possible with those who reach our shores clandestinely.
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The investigation is essentially a character one, and not asecurityscreening, if one can put it like that.
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Secondly we must renew and reinvigoratesecurityscreeningat airports and thirdly we must assist with the costs of security and war-risk insurance.
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Restoring public confidence means gettingsecurityscreeningright and improving the quality of staff, training, job procedures, pay and conditions.
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I should think that there was a case for doing that and even, though this may horrify some of my colleagues, forsecurityscreening.
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But this raises the question of security andsecurityscreening.
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The committee recommends that uniformed armed officers should be assigned tosecurityscreeningareas as a back-up to and separate from guards conducting searches.
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Where appropriate, such measures include thesecurityscreeningof transport operators and the checking of their identity on entry to a restricted zone.
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I thought that the general point aboutsecurityscreeningbuildings was that they had thick walls to stop the blast going outwards and make it go upwards.
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It is obviously impossible to put these tens of thousands of people who apply for naturalisation over the years through asecurityscreeningof such a kind as that.
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Why not have four or fivesecurityscreeningmachines, rather than the three proposed, so that our constituents and the queues could be dealt with much more efficiently?
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Proponents argue thatsecurityscreeningcan be made more efficient by detecting the people that are threats, and then searching them.
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The agency is also responsible for thesecurityscreeningprogram.
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