major firm
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandfirm
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major
adjective
uk/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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firm
noun[C]
uk/fɜːm/us/fɝːm/
a company offering a professional service, for example a company ...
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(Definition ofmajorandfirmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For example, why have some firms been included and others not, despite arguments about onemajorfirmin an estuary?
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This is particularly the case with small companies which supply to perhaps onemajorfirm.
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The letter was from amajorfirmin my area to one of its suppliers.
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Onemajorfirmalone had to find as much as £40 million to finance payment of those duties—and that was before the current increase.
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Clause 61 also speaks of the separate areas and, in effect, the separate garages of onemajorfirm.
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It takes decades to replace amajorfirm.
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It even went so far as to recommend that amajorfirmof estate agents be employed to market this part of the property comprehensively.
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The engineering industry is facing a bleak time and onemajorfirmin my constituency is working on short time.
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Some have been forced into bankruptcy because of that non-payment, not because themajorfirmhas gone out of business.
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Apparently the theory is that onemajorfirmmust go into bankruptcypour encourager les autres.
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One would very much like to see pre-eminent in this whole argument the interests of themajorfirmin one's constituency, but we have to look wider here.
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The board has dismissed its managing director, begun civil proceedings to recover the money and appointed amajorfirmof independent accountants to conduct a thorough investigation.
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Everymajorfirmwas represented there.
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It knows that in the last resort if there is unrestricted competition one will undoubtedly reach a stage at which there will be market dominance by onemajorfirm.
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It is a grotesque idea, however, that an individual colleague of mine or amajorfirmwithin my industry should be able in some way to obstruct all development.
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Themajorfirmtakes over the smaller supplier arguing that it is to ensure regular supply and often to ensure a price that can be arranged.
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Their basic plan was to build amajorfirmprimarily through acquiring companies.
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It suggested that the major firms on the main estuaries should be encouraged and it identified a number of major obstacles to growth.
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Nor, however, would they share out the work for the sake of keeping two major firms in being.
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The major firms are suffering just as much as the others.
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