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Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you gain ~ to a particular place, you are able to go in.
Bill was among the first to gain ~ to Buckingham Palace when it opened to the public recently...
Non-residents were refused ~ into the region without authority from their own district...
Entry to the museum is free.
= entrance
N-UNCOUNT: usu N to/into n
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No Entry is used on signs to indicate that you are not allowed to go into a particular area or go through a particular door or gate.
PHRASE
2.
You can refer to someone’s arrival in a place as their ~, especially when you think that they are trying to be noticed and admired.
He made his triumphal ~ into Mexico City.
= entrance
N-COUNT: usu sing, usu with poss
3.
Someone’s ~ into a particular society or group is their joining of it.
He described Britain’s ~ into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism as an historic move.
...people who cannot gain ~ to the owner-occupied housing sector.
= entrance
N-UNCOUNT: oft N into/to n
4.
An ~ in a diary, account book, computer file, or reference book is a short piece of writing in it.
Violet’s diary ~ for 20 April 1917 records Brigit admitting to the affair...
N-COUNT
5.
An ~ for a competition is a piece of work, for example a story or drawing, or the answers to a set of questions, which you complete in order to take part in the competition.
The closing date for entries is 31st December.
N-COUNT
6.
Journalists sometimes use ~ to refer to the total number of people taking part in an event or competition. For example, if a competition has an ~ of twenty people, twenty people take part in it.
Prize-money of nearly ?90,000 has attracted a record ~ of 14 horses from Britain and Ireland...
Our competition has attracted a huge ~.
N-SING: with supp, oft N of n
7.
Entry in a competition is the act of taking part in it.
Entry to this competition is by invitation only.
...an ~ form.
N-UNCOUNT: oft n in/to n
8.
The ~ to a place is the way into it, for example a door or gate.
= entrance
N-COUNT: usu sing