Collocations withitem

These are words often used in combination withitem.

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additional item
One additional item was dropped for parents'report because of its negative item-total correlation.
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bulky item
The permitted materials include dredged material, sewage sludge, industrial fishprocessing waste, offshore man-made structures at sea, organic material of natural origin, and bulky items made of iron, steel, or concrete.
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collectible item
Homies have become a highly collectible item among fans.
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decorative item
From this point, candles became more of a decorative item.
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desired item
This distance can be understood as the difficulties that exist for a person to obtain the desired item.
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discarded item
She races down the steps just in time, but her stepsisters recognize their discarded items and accuse her of stealing the sash and beads.
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donated item
These events often have a charity fundraising component such as a silent auction or live auction of donated items.
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essential item
It is unfortunate that the price might deter some individual purchasers but it should be seen as an essential item on library shelves.
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everyday items
The slow-down in the trunk and local road programme will not, in general, have a noticeable effect on the prices of these everyday items.
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expensive item
The base has now become a very expensive item.
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filler item
More importantly, in all these experiments one intervening filler item was introduced between primes and targets to preclude lexical and discourse influences between them.
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following items
The following items attempt to measure attitudes related to satisfaction/ dissatisfaction with the economy.
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food item
The material was sorted, and food item remains such as seeds, arthropod fragments, teeth, hair, nails, feathers, and scales, among others, were selected for analysis.
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handmade item
Most still contain a large amount of agricultural supplies, produce and other food staples, livestock, handmade items and traditional clothing.
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household item
A future potential market will undoubtedly be the general consumer where robots may well become another household item.
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imported item
Where two or more imported items were found in one grave they were invariably different objects.
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individual item
For each respondent a total ' general attitude scale ' score was calculated by summing the scores of each individual item comprising the factor.
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lexical item
Rules that do apply build no hierarchical syntactic or prosodic structure beyond the level of lexical item.
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luxury item
Only 13 per cent of such households owned a luxury item, compared with 52 per cent of three-generation households.
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manufactured item
There is no manufactured item in which hydrocarbon oils are not used.
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miscellaneous items
With incomes below $6,000, respondents reduce spending on miscellaneous items and, at incomes of $5,000, they reduce spending on clothing, entertainment and social activities and transport.
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missing item
Just over 25 per cent (65 cases) had at least one missing item.
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mundane item
It may involve merely the provision of a chair, which, after all, is a fairly mundane item in many people's private homes.
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non-food item
The remaining neighborhood characteristics are captured by a proxy variable, indicating the median per capita expenditure on food and non-food items, in the neighborhood/community in question.
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novelty item
A toffee hammer is sometimes included as a novelty item in gift packs produced by toffee manufacturers.
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perishable item
A further application would be manufacturing systems with perishable items.
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personal item
It appears to be very neat with every personal item in its own place.
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popular item
The most popular item of technology was the personal computer, followed by websites and audiotapes.
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prey item
Nudging the calf towards the prey item is more likely to fit the definition of teaching than rescuing a stranded calf.
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promotional item
The ease of making matchcovers of different shapes also made them quite a popular cheap promotional item or anniversary souvenir.
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purchased item
Often this is a purchased item, but it can be shop made.
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related item
A related item is the bacon cupcake.
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remaining item
The child was then asked whether a word came to mind for each remaining item.
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selected item
The morpheme -ta then cliticizes (with accompanying phonological adjustments) onto the right most verb of the selected item.
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single item
However, only a single item, ' ever chain-smoked ', had a substantial loading on the third factor in both genders.
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specialty item
Live recordings are a specialty item, or subgenre.
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stimulus item
When the participant was correctly looking at the fixation point, the experimenter pressed a button, causing a stimulus item to appear on the screen.
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stolen item
For a fee, they will recover any lost or stolen item for a client with an almost 100% success rate.
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unwanted item
The great majority of people often dump unwanted items on the nearest piece of land simply because they do not think that the dustmen will take them away.
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valuable item
However, to delete "output" would lose a valuable item from the list of subjects about which information may be sought.
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vintage item
Automotive memorabilia is also featured including model cars, die casts and toys, as are wedding collectibles and vintage items.
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