noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ticket office/booth/counter (= a place where you can buy tickets )
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There was a long queue at the ticket office.
booth bunny
phone booth
photo booth
polling booth
telephone booth
voting booth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
polling
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He's just warning voters of the political banana skins on route to the polling booths .
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Pupils will cast their ballot papers in mock polling booths before school and at morning break on the day.
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We can not expect voters to leave their conscience behind them when they go to the polling booth .
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On Feb. 25 almost 400,000 soldiers and police were deployed across the country to guard polling booths .
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He even brought one of the polling booths for us to examine.
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All those voters who shamefacedly backed the Tories in the secrecy of the polling booth are probably feeling vindicated.
■ NOUN
phone
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As soon as he could, he found a phone booth .
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He was standing in an exposed phone booth .
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You're a millionaire call while in a phone booth in Creeksville-in-the-Boondocks.
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It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth .
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In a phone booth , Celine gives Robert lessons in sounding demanding and ruthless in his ransom calls to Naville.
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The elevator is a perforated metal box no larger than a phone booth .
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He left the phone booth and went quickly out to the street.
photo
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I had to take my picture in one of them photo booths .
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A man sits on the floor, his back against a photo booth , with a plastic bag beside him.
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She bought six first-class stamps, took a pound coin from her purse and went into the automatic photo booth .
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I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth .
telephone
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She came back from the telephone booth quickly, looking distracted.
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It was Bethany in a telephone booth .
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Can't even dodge into a telephone booth and warn Gilman - if I could reach him.
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He walked back toward the telephone booth through knots of drinking blacks.
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Most of the bombs were mailed to bank branches or bank employees, but some were placed in telephone booths .
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Message-sending and letter-writing went on, and they were always running up to the telephone booths at the station.
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You know, I just called you from a telephone booth .
ticket
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A ticket booth was guarded by two of these figures dressed as policemen.
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The guy in the ticket booth had snake tattoos all over his arms and glasses held together with toothpicks and tape.
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The shutters were firmly closed at the ticket booth , the waxwork policemen staring with sightless eyes at passers-by.
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It will take at least half an hour to park your car and get to the ticket booths .
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His second came at the ticket booth , where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to.
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By the blind ticket booth a sign spoke four languages.
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It was no more than a ticket booth .
■ VERB
poll
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So the spooky prospect of Prime Minister Hague is just too science fiction to scare the Labour herd into the polling booths .
sit
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I got a cup of tea and sat down in a booth at the back.
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I snagged a glass of wine at the bar and then I sat in the back booth and surveyed the place.
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He sat in a booth in the far corner, ordered a stein of Rhine beer and waited.
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He sat in the rear booth , strangely anxious.
vote
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In many places, residents said, they forced their way into voting booths and stuffed boxes with ballots.
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Q: But will the issues be enough to get blacks to the voting booth in 1996; contrasted with Rev.
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There were no voting booths , no polling places, no campaign workers greeting neighbors outside the local high school.
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Yet it was precisely conservatives such as the Mormons who had blazed paths to the voting booths fifty years before.
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In every state that I am aware of, help is available for those people in the voting booth , if requested.
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Politics does not occur only in voting booths or demonstrations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a phone booth
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a ticket booth
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But, in the privacy of the polling booth , cooler and more hard-headed calculations came into play.
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C., which seemed to express the feelings of the entire booth .
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He walked back toward the telephone booth through knots of drinking blacks.
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It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths, but all were empty.
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Mulcahey pushed his way to a small booth in the rear.
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The election commission has therefore countermanded voting in several seats and ordered a re-poll in more than 1,000 booths.
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The guy in the ticket booth had snake tattoos all over his arms and glasses held together with toothpicks and tape.
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They would frequently receive strange glances from those in other booths but she just ignored it.