coal industry

collocation in English

meaningsofcoalandindustry

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coal
noun[C or U]
uk
/kəʊl/us
/koʊl/
a hard, black substance that is dug from the earth in pieces, and can be burned to produce heat or power, or a single piece ...
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industry
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.də.stri/us
/ˈɪn.də.stri/
the companies and activities involved in the process of producing goods for sale, especially in a factory or ...
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(Definition ofcoalandindustryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This influx was overwhelmingly from thecoalindustry.
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The state's legislators were reluctant to regulate thecoalindustry.
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The state had entered thecoalindustryas a regulatory agency.
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Crafts-based unionism made much less sense for advancing unionism in thecoalindustry.
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Inside ourcoalindustryis a successfulcoalindustrytrying to get out.
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The personnel of thecoalindustryowes its first allegiance to thecoalindustry.
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We want to see a competitivecoalindustry—acoalindustrywith a future.
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Thecoalindustryneeds reorganising, and out of thecoalindustrymust be produced new industries.
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A steeper decline was set in motion in thecoalindustrywhen women were banned from underground work in 1928.
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It is thecoalindustry.
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Take the greatcoalindustry.
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Thecoalindustryis competitive.
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It helps thecoalindustry.
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Thecoalindustryis threatened.
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Thecoalindustryis climbing.
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Thecoalindustryis languishing.
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It is not the nation that has subsidised thecoalindustry, but thecoalindustrythat has subsidised the nation.
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That would not apply, because thecoalindustryis not competing with thecoalindustryat home.
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The fishing industry is seven times more dangerous than thecoalindustry, but thecoalindustryis dangerous.
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There, thecoalindustryfaces far greater indigenous competition than thecoalindustrydoes in this country.
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One wants to see in thecoalindustryadvanced technology and co-operation from thecoalindustryin productivity.
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We shall be debating thecoalindustryand perhaps the industrial situation arising out of thecoalindustry.
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An understanding of the practices of the purchasers is vital for coal producers and will affect everyone in thecoalindustryincluding geologists.
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This volume has been developed for those working in thecoalindustryand is designed to give background information for the coal geologist.
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Rural depopulation was, then, a feature of the area reversed only by an exceptional circumstance like the advent of thecoalindustry.
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