English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'technology'
Learning English Vocabulary
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
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Summary
Technology refers to new tools, equipment or techniques that have been developed using scientific knowledge. There are some verbs that we often use with 'technology'. We call these combinations collocations. Learn some of them here with Beth.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:04.8 | We all use technology, but what other verbs can we use with this word? |
| 0:10.7 | A company might invest in technology. |
| 0:14.2 | That means they give money to support its development. |
| 0:18.2 | We're investing in technology in the health sector in the hope that a cure will be |
| 0:23.5 | found. You can also develop technology, continually improve and advance it. They're developing |
| 0:31.7 | software that will help reduce hospital waiting times. When technology is first used, we can say it is introduced. My work is |
| 0:42.2 | always introducing new technology, but we don't know how to use it all yet. Technology can allow or |
| 0:49.7 | enable something else to happen. This technology has allowed me to spend more time being creative |
| 0:57.0 | and less time doing admin tasks. |
| 1:00.0 | What can you do with technology? |
| 1:02.7 | BBC Learning English. |
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