I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car stalls (= stops working for a short time until you start it again )
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My car stalled at the traffic lights.
negotiations stall (= stop making progress )
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The negotiations stalled over the question of arms reductions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
flower
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I was learning Hugh's trade, and helping my granny with her flower stall at the harbour.
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And large, vibrant blooms beckoned from small flower stalls .
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Buster Edwards now runs a Flower stall outside Waterloo Station.
food
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Belle devised the trick of waiting by a food stall at a halt until the train was just pulling out again.
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Although small shops and food stalls exist, vending machines filled with cookies, crackers and chips are rare.
market
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Optics have fascinated Dall since he bought a spyglass telescope from a market stall in his mid-teens.
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I have no residual obligation to come back to the same market stall next week.
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Or you can buy some flowers from a shop or market stall .
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When the dustmen come by and the first market stalls are being erected in the early morning the place is still deserted.
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As Christmas approaches goods like these are turning up at one day sales, car boot sales and market stalls .
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The tins of sardines it received as rations are on sale at market stalls .
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Very good value woollen garments, inlaid wooden souvenirs or leather goods may be bought at market stalls and some shops.
shower
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He asked for the shampoo in the shower stall and she handed it to him.
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Tillman worked her hard all day made her change sheets, scour shower stalls .
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The urinals were metal, and in a distant area of shadows there appeared to be shower stalls .
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We got a hotel room that featured peeling paint, no windows, and a john in the shower stall .
■ VERB
run
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Till about 5 years ago I used to run a tea stall .
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In 1887 Lyons ran a stall at the Liverpool exhibition, selling for a shilling a combined microscope-binocular-compass which he had invented.
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Buster Edwards now runs a Flower stall outside Waterloo Station.
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He may have the measure of the John Gosden-trained Anshan, running from stall 15.
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Angie was running the hamburger stall - I don't think she has ever cooked so many hamburgers in her life.
set
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You set out your stall in an appropriate area full of like-minded folk.
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Gamblers brought wheels of fortune; hucksters set up stalls to hawk gingerbread and beer.
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Some set up their own stalls selling quail egg sandwiches or thimble-sized glasses of juice.
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First up, Treleaven then hit an imperious five-iron pin-high to set out his stall .
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This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a stall at a flea market
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Justin used to mind the stall while his father was in the cafe, drinking.
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The trouble is, you can't really try the clothes on at a market stall .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the stalls Timothy Gedge sat three rows behind the children from Sea House, with the carrier-bag by his feet.
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Most of the Guernseys are hitched to their stalls, but one is in a special stall.
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New covers for stalls in Darlington market will cost £4,600.
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On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam, and far fuller than it had been that morning.
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The organisation first began life in Shepperton with four ponies, two saddles, four bridles, four stalls and a shed.
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There are stalls selling sweets, cakes, espetada and wine.
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There was the theatre; seated in the stalls he could stare, but could not address her; but afterwards?
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
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The garages shut up and helped people to restart their cars after they had stalled through a flood.
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My car was stalled by this time.
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The 70-year-old woman, who has not been named, was coming out on to the A67 from Piercebridge when her car stalled .
process
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If that goes against them, they could stall the process further by seeking a judicial review.
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Major said holding local elections is the best immediate way to build confidence in the stalled peace process .
senate
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House-passed measures restricting the power of the federal government to regulate health, safety and environment also stalled in the Senate .
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But the bill is stalled in the Senate , where neither side in the debate is happy with it.
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The bill is stalled in the Senate .
time
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My car was stalled by this time .
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He was obviously stalling for time .
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Not knowing what to do or say, Allen made no comment but stalled for time .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bond was trying to gain altitude when his plane stalled.
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City officials have slowed the development by stalling building permits for the area.
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Dad's coming! Stall him for a minute while I hide this.
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I'm not ready to talk to him yet - go out there and see if you can stall him.
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Many consumers are stalling the purchase of new cars.
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Quit stalling and tell me where she is.
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Trade negotiations have stalled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And passenger service growth has stalled.
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More ominously, the effort to halt the nuclear spread could also stall .
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Privatization has stalled since the parliamentary election last December.
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The government has long stalled on both fronts.
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The report comes as legislation to curb lawsuits and cap damages has stalled in Congress.
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The risk of casual overtime is that production stalls because not enough people volunteer when needed.
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Thus, the 1985 proclamation of privatisation had largely stalled by 1989 for lack of buyers.
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Traffic had stalled to a stop because an oil truck was making a delivery, so the road was one lane wide.