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negligence 
/
ˈneɡlɪdʒ(ə)ns/ Noun uncount
negligence is not being careful enough, with the result 
that something is damaged or someone is injured
Collocates: medical/clinical/professional negligence | 
criminal negligence | gross/serious negligence
a lawyer specialising in medical negligence cases | he 
was guilty of professional negligence | charged with 
gross negligence (very serious negligence) | they’re 
threatening to sue him for negligence
Adjective: 
negligent
the hospital was found to be negligent | grossly 
negligent
–ENCE
Some nouns are formed by adding –
ence to adjectives. 
For example: criminally 
negligent behaviour / professional 
negligence.
the crowd was completely 
silent / a stunned silence; 
a very 
independent person / the country gained 
independence; very different tastes / notice the 
difference; an inconvenient truth / apologise for any 
inconvenience; a violent person / domestic violence
outsource 
/
ˈaʊtˌsɔː(r)s/ Verb
when a company 
outsources its work or services, it 
arranges for the work to be done or the services to be 
provided by a different organisation, sometimes one in 
another country
hospitals outsource their record keeping | it’s much 
cheaper to outsource the work | the company plans to 
outsource its research activities | European firms that 
outsource labour to Asian countries
Noun: 
outsourcing
the benefits of outsourcing | the outsourcing of 
components from Eastern Europe
panic 
/
ˈpænɪk/ Noun uncount
panic is a state when people suddenly become very 
worried about something and start behaving in a slightly 
wild way because they are not sure what to do 
Collocates: widespread panic | blind/sheer panic | panic 
breaks out/sets in | in a panic | with panic
the epidemic caused widespread panic across the 
continent | he went into a blind panic when he thought 
he’d lost the baby | a panic attack (a sudden feeling of 
panic) | there was a moment of sheer panic before the 
brakes finally worked | panic broke out when smoke was 
seen coming out of the kitchen | in a panic, he jumped 
out of the second floor window | his mother was white 
with panic
Verb: 
panic | Adjective: panicky
Collocates: panic about something
whatever you do, don’t panic | there’s no need to panic | 
just stop panicking about it and calm down | I panicked 
and ran into the garden | everyone was panicking and 
trying to find a way out | I felt a panicky urge to run away 
| he felt panicky as soon as he stepped inside the plane
pin 
/
pɪn/ Noun
a 
pin is a piece of metal that is put into someone’s body 
to hold together a bone that has been broken
the surgeon then inserts a metal pin to keep the bone in 
its new place | six weeks later the pin will be removed in 
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the clinic | internal pins and or screws are used to hold 
the bone in place
Verb: 
pin
I had to have my leg pinned