- evaluation
- nounADJECTIVE▪ comprehensive, rigorous, systematic, thorough▪ careful, detailed▪ independent, objective (esp. AmE)▪ subjective (esp. AmE)▪
subjective evaluations of the costs
▪ critical, empirical, statistical▪a critical evaluation of the film
▪ initial, preliminary▪We'll revisit our initial evaluation.
▪ negative, positive (both esp. AmE)▪She generally gets positive evaluations from her managers.
▪ formal▪ job (esp. BrE), performance (esp. AmE)▪a new pay structure based on job evaluations
▪ student (AmE)▪the end-of-course student evaluations
▪ annual (esp. AmE)▪his employees' annual evaluations
▪ clinical, medical, psychiatric, psychological (all esp. AmE) (usually clinical, etc. assessment in BrE)▪the results of clinical evaluations
VERB + EVALUATION▪ carry out, conduct, do, make, perform▪We still have to carry out an evaluation of the results.
▪ receive, undergo▪He is undergoing psychiatric evaluation.
▪ complete▪a recently completed evaluation of primary health care
▪ require▪symptoms that require medical evaluation
EVALUATION + NOUN▪ procedure, process▪ study▪ form (esp. AmE)▪During dinner, guests fill out a wine evaluation form.
▪ criteria▪The project developed a set of evaluation criteria.
PREPOSITION▪ in an/the evaluation▪In their evaluation of the project, they considered only certain aspects of it.
▪ under evaluation▪The new system is still under evaluation.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
