evaluate

evaluate
verb
ADVERB
▪ effectively (esp. AmE), fully, properly, thoroughly
▪ carefully, rigorously, systematically
▪

The evidence should be carefully evaluated.

▪ accurately (esp. AmE)
▪ constantly, continually, continuously, regularly (all esp. AmE)
▪ critically
▪ positively
▪

The role of stay-at-home mother is more positively evaluated in working-class communities.

▪ honestly (esp. AmE)
▪ independently, objectively (esp. AmE)
▪

his ability to objectively evaluate the merits of the works he considers

▪ empirically, scientifically, statistically
▪

These probabilities can be evaluated empirically.

VERB + EVALUATE
▪ aim to, attempt to, be designed to
▪ help (to)
▪

to help evaluate the success of the campaign

▪ begin to
▪ continue to
▪ be used to
▪

criteria used to evaluate employees' performance

▪ be difficult to, be hard to
▪ be impossible to
▪

It was impossible to evaluate the safety of the new drug.

▪ be possible to
▪

How is it possible to evaluate a company?

Evaluate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑applicant, ↑approach, ↑benefit, ↑claim, ↑competence, ↑condition, ↑effect, ↑effectiveness, ↑efficiency, ↑employee, ↑evidence, ↑extent, ↑feasibility, ↑hypothesis, ↑impact, ↑importance, ↑influence, ↑likelihood, ↑merit, ↑outcome, ↑performance, ↑progress, ↑quality, ↑relationship, ↑reliability, ↑result, ↑risk, ↑role, ↑situation, ↑success, ↑usefulness, ↑utility, ↑validity

Collocations dictionary. 2013.

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