direct provision

collocation in English

meaningsofdirectandprovision

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direct
adjective
uk
/daɪˈrekt/us
/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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provision
noun
uk
/prəˈvɪʒ.ən/us
/prəˈvɪʒ.ən/
the act of ...
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(Definition ofdirectandprovisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If they judge thatdirectprovisionis most effective, they must be allowed to make that choice.
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It was generally believed thatdirectprovisionwas the only effective way of operating, and that belief went more or less unchallenged.
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Directprovisionof accommodation is not the only way open to hospital authorities.
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He will have more powers affecting thedirectprovisionof services, privatisation and joint arrangements.
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All three states maintain an overwhelming presence indirectprovisionof inpatient care, but not outpatient care, accompanied by different levels of user charges.
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The government would separate its financing fromdirectprovisionroles.
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The social policy reforms will reduce the redistributive effect of social programmes, entitlement claims and the government's role indirectprovisionand financing.
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To reconfigure its functions, the state will withdraw even more indirectprovisionbut will actively consider giving subsidies to customers to buy services ('money follows the user').
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In its emergent welfare economy, the third sector has been hailed as a new growth point in social care as the state retreats fromdirectprovisionof welfare services.
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The extent ofdirectprovisionof services is for local authorities to determine having regard to local factors.
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It seems to me that there should be somedirectprovisionand not merely such vague terms as: "such other persons or bodies of persons".
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To start with, they are not making anydirectprovisionfor mental health at all.
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Directprovisionfor children under five is made only through voluntary sector grants.
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Most local authority social service departments have existing arrangements with both voluntary organisations and the private sector, as well as a variety ofdirectprovision.
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It is for local authorities to decide how much of these resources to devote todirectprovisionof housing and to assistance to private housing.
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But the way to counteract this lies more in stimulating the railways in other ways rather than by thedirectprovisionof economic support.
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That consists of "subsistence"—thedirectprovisionof day-to-day sustenance, but not monetary payment—or accommodation.
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Clause 18(1) and (2) refers only todirectprovisionor the giving of licences.
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That has included repairs to schools and community centres, arrangements for waste disposal and thedirectprovisionof tools and equipment.
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