OXFORD Collocations dictionary for students of EnglishOXFORD ‘UNIVERSITY PRESS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxtord. Ie furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York ‘Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dares Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi ‘Sao Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto (Oxford and Oxford English are registered trademarks of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Oxford University Press 2002 Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2002 Fifth impression 2003 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above ‘You must not circulate this book in any other binding or covor and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer ‘This dictionary includes some words which have or are asserted to have proprietary status as trademarks or otherwise. Their inclusion does not imply that they have acquired for legal purposes a non-proprietary or general significance nor any other judgement concerning their legal status. In cases Where the editorial staff have some evidence that a Word has proprietary status this is indicated in the entry for that word but no judgement concerning the legal status of such words is made or implied thereby ‘The British National Corpus is a collaborative project involving Oxford University Press, Longman, Chambers, the Universities of Oxford and Lancaster and the British Library ISBN 0 19 4312437 1098765 ‘Text capture and processing by Oxford University Press ‘Typesetting by Oxford University Press Printed in ChinaGOMTEMTS list of usage notes and special pages preface acknowledgements introduction guide to the entries the dictionary study pages between ideas into words using a noun entry using a verb entry using an adjective entry common verbs natural disasters criminal justice education driving politics jobs money key to the study pages inside front cover vi vii-xi xii-xiii 1-892 446 and 447 $2 $3-5 S6-7 s8-9 SIO-I1 S12 S12 S13 $13 Sl4 SIS Slé 893-7 key to abbreviations, symbols and labels