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globalisation 
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ˌɡləʊbəlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount
globalisation is the increasing way in which large 
companies can operate all over the world instead of in 
just one country, and in which people can move easily 
from one country to another when they want something 
that they can’t get in their own country 
Collocates: economic globalisation | cultural 
globalisation | increasing globalisation
the increasing globalisation of world trade | a positive 
response to the globalisation of our industry | the 
principal agents of economic globalisation are major 
business corporations | economic globalisation implies 
a great deal more than the development of extensive 
trade links
Verb: 
globalise | Adjective: globalised
production has been increasingly globalised | in another 
step towards globalising education, the university 
opened a campus in China | industries which failed to 
adapt to the globalised market | our globalised 24-hour 
news culture | the globalised economy
healthcare 
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ˈhelθkeə(r)/ Noun uncount
healthcare is a system that provides medical treatment 
for people. Some healthcare systems are private, and 
people have to pay for them, but some countries provide 
healthcare for all citizens and pay for it out of taxes
state-provided healthcare | in America, healthcare 
is mostly private | the new procedure is safer for 
healthcare workers | the demand for healthcare services 
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is increasing | providers and consumers of healthcare | 
inadequate provision of healthcare | politicians endlessly 
debating the costs of healthcare
hip 
/
hɪp/ Noun
your 
hips are the two bones at the side of your body, just 
below your waist 
Collocates: narrow/slim hips | wide hips | an artificial hip | 
a hip replacement | a hip operation
Christopher is going into hospital for a second hip 
operation | he had broad shoulders and narrow hips 
| she waited over a year for a hip replacement (an 
operation to replace the natural hip with an artificial one) 
| Alyssia placed her hands on her hips and stared angrily 
at him | he put his wallet in his hip pocket (a pocket at 
the back of a pair of trousers)