noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
respite care
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brief
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Nearby, the remainder of the squadron was stirring after a brief respite in a busy twenty-four period.
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It is a brief respite: the squad is soon returned to the valley where they are ordered to attack Hill 937.
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The mess sergeant arrived with a brief respite: Captain Apgood was at the back door.
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Follow this to a brief respite and winding shed.
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There have only been brief respites .
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The brief respite before the pests could fight back reflects the wait for a mutation.
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However, after a brief respite at Ossett everyone agreed to continue.
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Then he, too, requires a brief respite from corporeal entombment.
temporary
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What is heroin anyway, but a dark shadow, a temporary respite , smoked between one and a few hundred times?
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But this proved to be a temporary respite , and by 1921 registered unemployment was over 2 million.
welcome
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It had been a welcome respite in a cruel and anguished time.
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The tent is air-conditioned, making it a welcome respite on the hottest days.
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Intragroup rituals build cohesiveness, offer a welcome respite from long hours and high pressure, and imbue the enterprise with meaning.
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For most people at Cu Chi, the traditional Tet truce was anticipated as a welcome respite .
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Fighting back seasickness, Jeff Whitworth, an ex-Marine, got a welcome respite .
■ NOUN
care
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This has worked well for both permanent and respite care .
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Any possibility of further reductions in respite care should be strenuously resisted.
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Coupled with the financial implications if carers decided they could no longer shoulder this burden the case for supporting respite care becomes overwhelming.
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Some proposals include provision of a day centre and respite care .
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It briefly outlines activities such as helplines, respite care services and consultation on community care proposals.
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A private care home in my constituency accepted an elderly lady for respite care.
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It is also developing a respite care service.
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A carers group might help, but what about some form of respite care for both the carer and the son?
■ VERB
give
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Counselling, information and advice giving , respite from caring on a regular basis can all help.
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This had the advantage of giving a Christmas respite of six weeks.
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From then on all Schumacher had to do was keep cool, but Hakkinen gave him no respite .
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They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end.
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Calcavecchia was again first out in the afternoon and he gave poor Meshiai no respite , scoring 66 to a 73.
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Particularly away to Stuttgart when Leeds were desperate for some one to hold on to the ball to give the defence some respite .
offer
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Intragroup rituals build cohesiveness, offer a welcome respite from long hours and high pressure, and imbue the enterprise with meaning.
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At Macy's Plaza, a pianist gracefully serenades shoppers and a fountain offers a soothing respite from the pounding sidewalks outside.
provide
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It was the latter that was to provide a respite as the Prussians paused in their advance to loot.
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He can also take over the parenting role and provide her with respite from the rigours of what is a twenty-four-hour-a-day job.
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The boat trip should have provided some respite but it is difficult to see how.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Some mothers regard work as a welcome respite from the stress of looking after a home and children.
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The citizens had only a few days' respite from the conflict, before the shelling began again.
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The drug can only provide a brief respite in the pain.
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The noise went on all night, without a single moment's respite .
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Weathermen yesterday warned that there would be no respite from the gales.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And now the archers were shooting at will, selecting their targets where they best offered, without haste and without respite .
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But the success brought only a short respite .
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For the Dwarfs it was a much needed respite .
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For the next five days we had no respite .
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He obtained from them a respite .
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There was no respite from them, nowhere to hide from them.