orientationo‧ri‧en‧ta‧tion /ˌɔːriənˈteɪʃən, ˌɒri- $ ˌɔː-/ ●○○ AWL noun formal 
The company needs to develop a stronger orientation towards marketing its products. How can we get students to adopt a serious orientation to learning?orientation of He was unhappy with the commercial orientation of the organization.2[countable, uncountable] the political opinions or religious beliefs that someone haspolitical/religious orientation The meeting is open to everyone, whatever their political or religious orientation. The party has a broadly socialist orientation.3sexual orientation the fact that someone is heterosexual or homosexual: Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation is still far too widespread.4[uncountable] a period of time during which people are trained and prepared for a new job or course of study: This is orientation week for all the new students.5[countable] the angle or position of an object, or the direction in which it is facing
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- the party's liberal orientation
- Apologists wishing to exploit a revisionist history of science invariably stress the profoundly religious orientation of many prominent scientists.
- Nevertheless, a number of urban leaders viewed the shift in policy orientation with trepidation.
- Nieboer-Erickson also speaks to all freshman athletes at annual orientation sessions.
- Such value orientation occurs in all public services.
- These are crystalline polymers with chain orientation virtually perfect in one direction.
- Thus in the intermingling of news and commercials we have a struggle of sorts between two different orientations.
WORD SETS
articled, adjectivecrash course, nounday release, noundriving school, noungraduate, verborientation, nounplebe, nounpolytechnic, nounqualified, adjectiveraw, adjectiverefresher course, nounre-skilling, nounretrain, verbretread, nountrade school, nountraffic school, nountrain, verbtrainer, nounwork experience, nounworkshop, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The meeting is open to everyone, whatever their political or religious orientation.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
The meeting is open to everyone, whatever their political or religious orientation.· Despair is the basic life orientation that emerged in most of the cancer patients during psychotherapy.
· Translation and Interpreting 3. Cultural and orientation briefings 4.· The town acts as a catalyst for social development producing new cultural orientations among its residents.· His political and cultural orientation was still northwards, his world essentially that of the Humbrians.
· The different policy orientations of the various new social movements determine in part the type of response they receive from government.· The reason: a fundamentally different parenting orientation.· But by 1990 a profoundly different orientation permeated the Minnesota state government.· Organizations can have a number of different orientations towards their markets.· Thus in the intermingling of news and commercials we have a struggle of sorts between two different orientations.· The very different patterns in the different orientations in each flow must reflect orientation of the coherent structures.· That this functionalist style contains different orientations should be clear from the differences in approach and nuance between these movements.
· The material is more extensive than that of the two earlier lectures, but the general orientation much the same.· Objections I will conclude this chapter by considering a few objections to the account of authority suggested above which challenge its general orientation.· Laski himself led the way not only in general theoretical orientation but also in the detailed study.· Those who accept the general orientation of modern science may well find considerable difficulty in coming to grips with this main point.
· They then come to rest in some new orientation.· Sometimes the new orientation is portrayed as the balancing of rights with responsibilities.· The town acts as a catalyst for social development producing new cultural orientations among its residents.· Central to the department's new orientation is the role of Oscar Roith, the DoI's chief engineer and scientist.
· What is the process by which local loyalties and parochial orientations give way to wider concerns?· These orientations may combine with subject and parochial orientations, or they may conflict.· More important, in the civic culture participant political orientations combine with and do not replace subject and parochial political orientations.· A parochial orientation also implies the comparative absence of expectations of change initiated by the political system.· In the five democracies we study, the parochial and subject orientations tend to rest primarily upon affective and evaluative tendencies.· Similarly, the participant culture does not supplant the subject and parochial patterns of orientation.
· Hardest to predict is whether an eventual movement for reform will adopt a distinct and more hopeful political and economic orientation.· More important, in the civic culture participant political orientations combine with and do not replace subject and parochial political orientations.· His political and cultural orientation was still northwards, his world essentially that of the Humbrians.· More important, in the civic culture participant political orientations combine with and do not replace subject and parochial political orientations.· In other words, we need to define and specify modes of political orientation and classes of political objects.· We also defined the political culture as the particular incidence of patterns of political orientation in the population of a political system.· Rather than reacting against the political orientations of their families, they tend to extend the extremism of their families' views.· It deals with the political orientations and behavior of a cross-section sample.
· Apologists wishing to exploit a revisionist history of science invariably stress the profoundly religious orientation of many prominent scientists.· Even this, though, can be seen as a facet of the Minoans' religious orientation.· And the religious orientation it reflects is unmistakably Essene.
· Consequently, from its earliest days the service had a strong welfare orientation.· The single-subject academic course is largely confined to the universities, reflecting their traditions of specialized scholarship and their stronger research orientation.· Even the most seemingly neutral model has in reality strong ideological orientations.· In contrast, Britain and the United States are among those countries cited as exhibiting a strong allegiant orientation.· This training structure is in place in the Surrey and West Sussex area where there is a strong orientation towards counselling skills.· Factors which correlate strongly with autonomy are: Strong goal orientation, even to the point of creating unnecessary hurdles.
VERB· Retaining the idiom would have the advantage of preserving the semblance of continuity, while providing some orientation in daily life.
WORD FAMILYnounorientationverborient
1[countable, uncountable] the type of activity or subject that a person or organization seems most interested in and gives most attention toorientation towards/to The company needs to develop a stronger orientation towards marketing its products. How can we get students to adopt a serious orientation to learning?orientation of He was unhappy with the commercial orientation of the organization.2[countable, uncountable] the political opinions or religious beliefs that someone haspolitical/religious orientation The meeting is open to everyone, whatever their political or religious orientation. The party has a broadly socialist orientation.3sexual orientation the fact that someone is heterosexual or homosexual: Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation is still far too widespread.4[uncountable] a period of time during which people are trained and prepared for a new job or course of study: This is orientation week for all the new students.5[countable] the angle or position of an object, or the direction in which it is facing