I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a victory parade
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They intend to hold a victory parade.
an identity parade British English (= when someone looks at a line of people to see if they recognize a criminal )
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The victim identified her attacker from an identity parade.
hit parade
identification parade
identity parade
parade ground
parade/hunting/burial etc ground
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These fields served as a hunting ground for the local people.
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The rivers are used as dumping grounds for industrial waste.
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He is buried in sacred ground.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
endless
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The work kept me going, and fortunately there was lots of it, an endless parade of winter bookings.
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Back at home, he is exposed to an endless parade of eccentric guests and blundering workers.
military
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The anniversary was to be celebrated with a torchlit procession, military parade and fireworks.
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Not only celebrated with military parades but processions of allegedly joyful workers armed with festive balloons like oversized lollipops.
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As for the military parade , it was even more modest than last year.
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The military parade was cancelled and members of the republic's leadership fled from the raised viewing podium.
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Television commentary for a military parade in Rome last month hummed the glory and sacrifice of the armed forces.
■ NOUN
ground
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The central road between the gardens had become a parade ground .
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A real bomb fell on a parade ground , sending up smoke in an ominous column.
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In the meantime there is much to be achieved before they too will march off the parade ground as trained servicewomen.
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Cottonwood trees buzzIng with locusts line the old parade ground .
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At a torch-lit ceremony held on the regimental parade ground two nights later, we were given our képis.
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In the centre of the buildings was a square parade ground with a forlorn flagpole.
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When he reached the guardroom he stopped and turned round for one last look at the parade ground .
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There is a brief tent inspection before a bugler calls them to attention on the parade ground .
identification
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Later a hastily assembled identification parade of three sat before me.
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They were going to have an identification parade .
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He said there had been a large number of witnesses who attended identification parades who failed to pick out George.
identity
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Both were picked out from an identity parade by witnesses.
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But the way Bridges plays him he'd be the first sicko picked out of an identity parade .
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The law stated that she could not be directly involved with the identity parade .
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Armed with this information, they wouldn't have picked him out on an identity parade .
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Read in studio A police force is trying to encourage more people to take part in identity parades .
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Dalziel wouldn't need an identity parade if he wanted to worry Jacko.
route
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It is understood the security forces will keep a high profile along the parade route .
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At the appointed hour for the concert to begin, crowds began streaming off the parade route and into the park.
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No tickets are necessary for standing room along the parade route .
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The agent was later removed from the parade route by his superiors.
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Four years ago, Clinton left the vehicle to walk part of the parade route .
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Tickets for bleacher seats along the parade route run $ 10 to $ 100 each.
victory
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The king ordered a grand victory parade dedicated to the island's Hindu deities, Natha, Vishnu and Kataragama.
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Seats of honor in their own victory parade .
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And so his victory parade was attended by almost nobody but himself.
■ VERB
attend
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He would not attend parade , he would avoid his Commandant.
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He said there had been a large number of witnesses who attended identification parades who failed to pick out George.
hold
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They are allowed to hold a resplendent Christmas parade down Fifth Avenue, complete with carriages, sleds and artificial snow.
lead
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They sat on stubby pillars at the bottom of a short flight of steps leading to the parade square.
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I had seen a photograph of him leading the camel parade on Independence Day through Delhi.
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Two running Tornado prototypes in final road-going specification will lead parades of classic racing Benellis on June 5 and 9.
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Reengineering processes simply can not lead the change parade .
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In the 1950s, Paisley and Norman Porter led banned parades .
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Billy Pilgrim again led the parade .
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He could have been leading a parade , twirling the baton.
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Antivirus software makers and providers of data backup services led the parade , sending out news releases and soliciting interviews.
march
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In the meantime there is much to be achieved before they too will march off the parade ground as trained servicewomen.
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Moore marched across the parade ground and headed towards the officers' quarters.
watch
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Hari remembered standing in the darkened street, watching the parade of carriages driving along Mumbles Road and into Gloucester Place.
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I stood for ten minutes against the mirrors, watched the passing parade , and moved on to the fourth floor.
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He didn't want to watch the quiet parade of students - they made him feel so damned old.
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About 40, 000 people are expected to watch the inaugural parade from the bleacher seats.
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To the lunchtime office workers politely watching the opening parade , Stockshow is a Marlboro world of fringed leather and fancy tack.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the hit parade
ticker tape parade
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of soldiers were missing from the Victory parade .
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
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The city has a parade every 4th of July.
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When Johnson arrived home after the championships a big parade was held in his honour.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A parade of scientists and scholars told the panel that the risks of nuclear smuggling were real and rising.
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He was not even among the long parade of speakers on that day.
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Her island had a twenty-foot movie screen, a pantomime parade , carnival.
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In June 1969 a proposed Connolly commemoration parade through Belfast city centre was bitterly opposed by loyalists.
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It welled up, reclaiming its rightful position in the hit parade of the senses: No.
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Metro stations were temporarily jammed after the inaugural ceremony and toward the end of the parade .
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Most of the groups from the parade have information booths.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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He then dressed in her clothes and paraded around the campus for hours until he was arrested.
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The child sprang a little awkwardly from his chair and began to parade around his table.
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They were paraded around while householders took their pick, a routine familiar to refugee children who had passed through Dovercourt.
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Maybe they thought she got what she deserved for parading around on television in a bathing suit.
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As soon as you have established these, systematically evaluate any management fashion being paraded around .
■ NOUN
street
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They paraded the smart streets of West London, displaying their meagre weekly rations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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celebrities who parade their perfect marriages before the TV cameras
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On Sunday mornings, fashionable young couples parade up and down the Boulevard St Michel.
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The captured pilots were paraded through the town.
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The captured soldiers were paraded through the streets of the city.
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The President stood as a battalion of soldiers paraded past him.
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The senator loves parading his beautiful new wife before the nation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But when the celebs paraded for Reagan 20 years ago, Republicans had no such scruples.
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Exhorting him to breathe deeply they paraded him up and down beside the wire fence.
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Have paraded the tasteless christmas jumper though.
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It paraded before the court a series of witnesses who had been swindled by the Davis family.
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One by one they paraded themselves on to the stage and stalled there, brazen and embarrassed.
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Read in studio Police are parading a range of race and rally cars in an attempt to make speeding motorists slow down.
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Some people love to show up and parade through.
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We paraded down the aisle, tapping loudly with our canes and shouting and whistling to the crowd.