I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pedestrian zone (= where no vehicles are allowed )
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The main part of the city centre is a pedestrian zone.
pedestrian crossing
pedestrian precinct
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
kill
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He was killed on a pedestrian crossing when Clara was sixteen.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shopping/pedestrian precinct
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Continue through Headington shopping precinct until reaching Windmill Road traffic lights, turn right and continue until the roundabout.
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For a modern, purpose-built resort it is surprisingly attractive, with its wood-clad buildings and cobbled shopping precincts .
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However, most cities now have some car-free space in the form of arcades, converted streets or purpose-built pedestrian precincts .
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James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.
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The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.
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The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.
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The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct .
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They are usually found in town centres and shopping precincts .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Banning traffic from the shopping areas has made life much more pleasant for pedestrians.
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The man lost control of his car, killing a pedestrian .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But won't it lead to confrontation between drivers and pedestrians?
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Cyclists are asked to be aware of pedestrians and ride considerately.
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Given the trees, wide sidewalks filled with pedestrians and the Muni vehicles, the view is poor to mediocre.
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It claims bikes cause too much pollution and can upset pedestrians.
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Often, cars turning on to California or Pine would block the crosswalk, forcing pedestrians to weave between cars.
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On a single day, Sept. 17, 10 pedestrians were struck, including one fatally.
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Take particular care when entering or leaving the tracks, and watch out for both pedestrians and traffic.
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Then, without warning, a tremendous blast smote the city, knocking pedestrians to the ground.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mall
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It will become a pedestrian mall during the games, wooing visitors with the now-ubiquitous coffee franchises and sushi bars.
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Elvis had left the pawnshop to place his karaoke machine carefully on a stool along the crowded pedestrian mall .
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The National Park Service has developed a $ 40 million plan to permanently convert the strip into a pedestrian mall .
underpass
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The exhibit runs through February 16 at the center, south of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway, east of Park Avenue.
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The Center is located south of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway, east of Park Avenue.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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On the main wall was a rather pedestrian portrait of his wife.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Dreyfuss finds ways around the triteness of the screenplay and the pedestrian direction.
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He admired the sycamores, rising like important ideas from pedestrian plots of short grass.
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He is a very pedestrian writer and Ovid is far from that.
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It will become a pedestrian mall during the games, wooing visitors with the now-ubiquitous coffee franchises and sushi bars.
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The adumbration of pedestrian figures by a kind of blurred notation seems to be entirely new in art.
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The other, Portland, has five employees in its pedestrian program.
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Where pedestrian volumes were heavy, walkers should have special pedestrian routes.