ADJ
- good, reliable, sure
- poor, unreliable
- Level of education is actually quite a poor indicator of ability to run a business well
- sensitive
- crude, partial, rough
- simple
- key, leading, main, major
- important, significant
- useful, valuable
- economic, financial, performance, social, socio-economic
- performance indicators such as language and numeracy skills
VERB + INDICATOR
- be, serve as
- These warts can serve as an indicator of other infections
- provide (sb with)
- regard sth as, see sth as, take sth as
- Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation
- use (sth as)
- develop
- It is still difficult to develop indicators for many concepts used in social science
INDICATOR + VERB
- show sth, suggest sth
- Economic indicators suggest that a recovery is on the way
PREP
- ~ for
- an indicator for the presence of minerals