national network

collocation in English

meaningsofnationalandnetwork

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national
adjective
uk
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/us
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to ...
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network
noun[C]
uk
/ˈnet.wɜːk/us
/ˈnet.wɝːk/
a large system consisting of many similar parts that are connected together to allow movement or communication between or along the parts, or between the parts and a ...
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(Definition ofnationalandnetworkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofnational network

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It supported its activities through anationalnetworkof more than 100 physicians, including 30 specialists, divided into 15 regional groups.
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Local music programmes in some cases prevailed in an ancillary role, scheduled alongside thenationalnetworkstaple programmes.
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As part of this, anationalnetworkof geriatric clinics was closed down, and its staff were redeployed to child immunisation programmes.
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Another member attended thenationalnetworkfor learning disability nurses conference which included the valuing people support team session on into the mainstream.
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While anationalnetworkof postal distribution was complete, the department exercised ever less authority over it.
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Tens of thousands of prosecutions were brought, societies sprang up across the country, and anationalnetworkfor reporting local initiatives and spreading pious tracts was established.
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Meanwhile, there was a gradual shift in emphasis away from large-scale projects to initiatives in individual neighbourhoods, and by 1971 anationalnetworkof ' community development programmes ' had been established.
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Our aim is to ensure a trulynationalnetworkof networks to benefit the whole of society.
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All local authorities have access to thisnationalnetworkof secure facilities.
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There is, however, anationalnetworkof such facilities to which all local authorities have access.
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The railways were run as separate businesses, not anationalnetwork.
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He can reorganise the finances so that the wholenationalnetworkof the parcels company is split up into areas.
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And, by the same token, thenationalnetworkgains enormously from the many programmes that are conceived and put on from the regions.
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Without an adequate licence fee, the resources will not be available to establish anationalnetworkof effective dog warden schemes.
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We want anationalnetworkof canals so that the system can be maintained as a whole.
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We are committed to maintaining anationalnetworkof post offices.
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This is not intended to help set up anationalnetwork.
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A coherent strategy inevitably leads to anationalnetwork, under public control, and not a myriad private ventures all setting up systems of their own.
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I expect anationalnetworkof over 200 business links to be established over the next two to three years.
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