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Oxford Collocations Dictionary
The Oxford Collocations Dictionary shows you which words work together. It helps you to express your ideas naturally and convincingly and is particularly useful for writing.
Look up a word to find out which words are used with it. Find the right word combination for your context from the most frequently used combinations.
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Choose 'Collocations' from the search box options to look up words in this dictionary.
Collocations are grouped by part of speech. For example, all the verbs that collocate with your search word are listed together.
Double-click on any word to look it up in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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Wide coverage
The dictionary includes 250,000 word combinations and collocations for 9,000 nouns, verbs and adjectives.
75,000 examples show how collocations are used in everyday British and American English.
25 usage notes give collocations shared by words such as seasons, currencies, and languages.
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Downloadable pages
Downloadable Study pages contain exercises on collocations, plus an answer key.
Topic pages pull together collocations on a particular topic such as business, meetings and sport.
Study pages
16 downloadable study pages contain exercises on how to use different types of collocations entries and collocations on particular topics.
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Special pages
10 downloadable pages pull together collocations on a particular topic such as business, meetings, and sport.
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Corpus-based
The Oxford Collocations Dictionary is based on the authority of the Oxford English Corpus, a collection of three billion words of text that show the words that really do go together.
The Oxford Collocations Dictionary is also available offline as part of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app. Try it for free!
Sample entries
condition
issue (noun)
language
lift (verb)
light (adjective)
perform
rate (noun)
speak
success
suspect (adjective)
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