collateral damage

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• EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions

  A combined list of
  1. EU Buzz - single words
  2. EU Buzz - collocations
  3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
  collocation constituents

  absorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...

• EU Buzz - collocations

  Multiword expressions frequently used in EU context. Many of them have a specific EU-meaning, some of them are topical in 2012 also outside the EU but have a relevance in EU politics. People workin...

  absorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 1567 more...

• EU Buzz - adj+noun collocations

  supranational ins..., supplementary budget, sudden jump, subprime crisis, special represent..., sovereign state, soft power, soft landing, social welfare, social policy, social partners, social justice and 372 more...

• Military Matters

  words of mass (or minor) destruction

  caltrop, stylet, chassepot, baldric, rewet, blunderbuss, musket, flintlock, howitzer, ordnance, casque, dragoon and 148 more...

• phrases (2 to 3 words)

  Found Phrases I like. 2 or 3 words.
  
  the majority of these will be placed into more categorically specific lists.
  
  goto phrases (more than 3 words)
  
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  catastrophic failure, gut-wrenching, programming paradigm, supermassive blac..., tangent space, renewable energy, design pattern, deceptively awesome, allegorical super..., emotional truth, ghosts of departe..., inflection point and 942 more...

• Euphemisms

  Mostly awful and political.

  information campaign, enemy combatant, person of interest, collateral damage, friendly fire, detention centre, children overboard, asylum seeker, health care, national interest, economic management, redeployment and 114 more...

• Loaded Words Part Deux: Two Words Tha...

  See also the list Loaded Words (wordnik.com/lists/loaded-words). Two ordinary words (i.e. not proper nouns--Berlin wall or Utah beach wouldn't fit here) that not only combine to make a third concep...

  cotton gin, wagon trail, gold rush, democratic republic, wounded knee, wage slavery, rat race, manifest destiny, eminent domain, pork barrel, gateway drug, talking points and 43 more...

• why not call a spade a spade?

  non-retained empl..., candidates for de..., collateral damage, service the target, pre-emptive count..., combat emplacemen..., individual aerial..., negative patient-..., adult correctiona..., air support, wood interdental ..., terminological in...

• Military Words

  strafing, thermonuclear, airburst, neutron bomb, armament, soft target, sortie, surgical strike, warhead, artillerist, bombardment, searching fire and 46 more...

• Shameless Euphemisms

  rationalisation, downsizing, relocation, restructuring, centralisation, outsourcing, learning difficul..., diasadvantaged, remerchandising, friendly fire, collateral damage, pre-owned