(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you give someone or something your ~, you look at it, listen to it, or think about it carefully.
You have my undivided ~...
Later he turned his ~ to the desperate state of housing in the province.
...young children with short ~ spans.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl, usu with poss
2.
Attention is great interest that is shown in someone or something, particularly by the general public.
Volume Two, sub-titled ‘The Lawyers’, will also attract considerable ~...
The conference may help to focus ~ on the economy.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If someone or something is getting ~, they are being dealt with or cared for.
Each year more than two million household injuries need medical ~.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
You can refer to someone’s efforts to help you, or the interest they show in you, as their ~s, especially if you dislike or disapprove of them.
The only way to escape the unwanted ~s of the local men was not to go out...
N-PLURAL: usu the N of n
5.
If you bring something to someone’s ~ or draw their ~ to it, you tell them about it or make them notice it.
If we don’t keep bringing this to the ~ of the people, nothing will be done...
N-UNCOUNT: usu with poss
6.
If someone or something attracts your ~ or catches your ~, you suddenly notice them.
He sat at one of the round tables and tried to attract her ~.
PHRASE: V inflects
7.
If you pay ~ to someone, you watch them, listen to them, or take notice of them. If you pay no ~ to someone, you behave as if you are not aware of them or as if they are not important.
More than ever before, the food industry is paying ~ to young consumers...
Other people walk along the beach at night, so I didn’t pay any ~ at first...
PHRASE: V inflects
8.
When people stand to ~ or stand at ~, they stand straight with their feet together and their arms at their sides.
Soldiers in full combat gear stood at ~...
PHRASE: V inflects