timber industry

collocation in English

meaningsoftimberandindustry

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timber
noun
uk
/ˈtɪm.bər/us
/ˈtɪm.bɚ/
trees that are grown so that the wood from them can be used ...
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industry
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.də.stri/us
/ˈɪn.də.stri/
the companies and activities involved in the process of producing goods for sale, especially in a factory or ...
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(Definition oftimberandindustryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftimber industry

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The forest laws were consolidated in favour of thetimberindustry.
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Differences in population density can result in differences in the opportunity for using agricultural andtimberindustryinputs in the production of industrial and commercial products.
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Farming, fishing, and (for a time early in the 1900s) thetimberindustryhave provided the primary livelihood for residents.
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He appropriated for himself the entiretimberindustryand took personal charge of the accounts of the forest resource establishment.
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The forest service had its state capacity expanded because it pursued policies that benefitted and subsidized thetimberindustry.
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In the past two decades, however, the commercialtimberindustryhas diminished greatly in importance along with the loss of primary forest cover.
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Instruments applied vary from payment to land owners to keep forest standing as carbon sinks, to incentives for the modernization of thetimberindustry.
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Instruments applied vary from payment to land owners to deep forest standing as carbon sinks, to incentives for the modernization of thetimberindustry.
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So, for example, when the political economy of thetimberindustrychanged, the configuration and deployment of the state's capacity and resources changed.
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The direct beneficiaries of thetimberindustryare the state, the timber licencees, the main contractors, the sub-contractors, and the timber employees.
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The development of thetimberindustryand oil industry, as well as the extraction of minerals has unleashed not just corruption but violence and the displacement of regional populations.
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Ourtimberindustryhas been going through a very difficult time.
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There is a risk of something very similar happening in thetimberindustry.
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Thetimberindustryis about to be sold off.
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We have not had any recent major complaint from the home-growntimberindustry.
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That indicates that the furniture andtimberindustrytraining board is to be phased out.
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I do not accept that the hometimberindustryis suffering disruption.
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There is also more to be done in the hometimberindustry.
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That is the sort of problem we are facing in thetimberindustry.
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Does not that apply to creosote oils used in thetimberindustry?
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