noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chess championship/tournament (= a chess competition )
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Ray's taking part in a chess tournament.
a golf tournament/championship
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She decided to enter the golf tournament.
tournament/championship golf
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The course is suitable for modern world-class championship golf.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
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The organisers hope the unofficial event will emulate last weekend's annual rugby sevens tournament .
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The annual charity tournament will be held at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Germantown....
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Eighteen teams competed in the annual tournament over three nights at Barlaston.
big
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Most big tournaments have a tent in which the major manufacturers of equipment and clothing display their wares.
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It's hoped to attract a top professional and a very big money tournament .
indoor
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Boris Becker and Ivan Lendl have both withdrawn from the world indoor tournament in Rotterdam.
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She will appear at the Paris Open, a small indoor tournament , next week.
international
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They were the first country to organise an international sevens tournament , which they did to celebrate their Centenary in 1973.
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With the white pieces Yusupov copied an opening that had brought Karpov success in an international tournament game last year.
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It would be great to take the lads to international tournaments , because playing against foreign teams brings them on no end.
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Blue Coat won the Fair Play award at an under-18 international badminton tournament in Barcelona despite not winning a match.
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Later, the game becomes popular abroad and international tournaments are held.
major
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He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go.
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Reputations can be difficult to shake in tennis, especially when the major tournaments bring familiar habits to life.
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I haven't played a major tournament for ages.
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If it wins, it will have secured all major golf tournaments around the world.
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No other person, female or male, managed to do that well in the major tournaments of 1990.
ncaa
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Every game the team wins brings the Ducks closer to a return trip to the NCAA tournament .
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She figures Jody is looking for the pat answers about working harder and going to the NCAA tournament .
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She wants to make it back to the NCAA tournament .
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The NCAA basketball tournaments have a winner-take-all, one-loss-and-you're-gone format.
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Nine of the last ten years, the Washington team has made it to the NCAA tournament .
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All you have to do is win the NCAA basketball tournament pool.
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This March, maybe more than ever, we need the euphoria and emotion of the conference and NCAA tournaments .
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The NCAA tournament is far from their thoughts.
olympic
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The 21 year old table tennis star competes in the Olympic qualifying tournament .
open
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The best final came in the under-10 open tournament .
professional
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Today's professional has two assistants, reflecting an increased amount of teaching, shop sales, professional tournaments and playing requests.
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Harley then insisted that the tournament director, who is the ultimate arbiter at professional tournaments, be summoned.
qualifying
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Four more teams will emerge from an additional qualifying tournament in June.
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She won the preliminary qualifying tournament but, surprisingly, failed to gain her card in the all-important final event.
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The 21 year old table tennis star competes in the Olympic qualifying tournament .
■ NOUN
chess
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Both sides were scrupulously polite, as if participating in a chess tournament .
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Choirs, plays, gymnastics, book discussions, chess tournaments , lectures and crafts classes took place constantly.
conference
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The Braves were 15-3 in the conference and lost to Tulsa last week in the finals of the conference tournament .
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These seniors had never won a game in the conference tournament .
cup
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There's also a full World Cup tournament .
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Barnes said Munich, Dortmund, Berlin and Stuttgart were interested in staging the new cup tournament .
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It was announced yesterday that the Glasgow Cup tournament will be played this season for the first time on an all-weather pitch.
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It was not just because he was such a sporting superstar, a man voted player of the 1994 World Cup tournament .
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Martina Navratilova has changed her mind and decided to enter the Volkswagen Cup tournament at Eastbourne next week.
director
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Harley then insisted that the tournament director , who is the ultimate arbiter at professional tournaments, be summoned.
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She had spent a long day playing golf with a couple of amateurs -- as a favor to the tournament director .
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The tournament director asked her to leave.
golf
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A golf tournament with royal patronage was too good an opportunity for a publicity-minded company to miss.
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Fees to play in the golf tournament are $ 325 per person or $ 1, 300 per foursome, Bertino said.
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The prized antlers were awarded to Sir Robin after a victory in the Treasury's golf tournament .
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In Tucson, January golf tournaments do the trick.
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I'd fight wherever there was a fairground booth near a golf tournament - and that was quite often.
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Imagine a single golf tournament stretched over that time.
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When Jack Nicklaus plays in a golf tournament , do you think he is playing under the same conditions as everybody else?
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Wiggins raises the money with a charity golf tournament each June.
record
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Hall of Famer Betsy King won last year, tying the tournament record with a 12-under 204.
tennis
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If it's raining in the afternoon there will be a table tennis tournament .
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Athletics meetings, tennis tournaments and horse-races have all been the subject of sponsorship.
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A nominal charge is made for table tennis and tennis tournaments .
■ VERB
enter
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Lottie Dod loved competing and with her sister Ann entered tournaments in the Manchester and Liverpool areas from the age of eleven.
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In 1990, Peter had entered thirty-one tournaments and made the cut in only eighteen of them.
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Indeed one could be forgiven for thinking only two teams has entered the tournament .
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Martina Navratilova has changed her mind and decided to enter the Volkswagen Cup tournament at Eastbourne next week.
hold
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Isaacs, meanwhile, continues the search for places to hold his tournaments .
lose
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The Bruins had lost tournament games as favorites three times in the previous four years.
play
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I haven't played a major tournament for ages.
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The eight teams will play a round-robin tournament beginning on July 21, with the top four advancing to single-elimination semifinals.
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They went to the pre-qualifying and, if they made it, they could play in the tournaments .
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Fees to play in the golf tournament are $ 325 per person or $ 1, 300 per foursome, Bertino said.
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When Jack Nicklaus plays in a golf tournament , do you think he is playing under the same conditions as everybody else?
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Spencer-Devlin played in six more tournaments in 1990, but so poorly she called it a year in August.
win
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I know he's won some tournaments but he is simply not Open material.
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Ballesteros had, after all, won sixty tournaments since 1976.
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If Frazar is going to win his first tournament this would be the place.
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Or that Steve Elkington won the tournament with a 25-footer.
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If your team wins the tournament , you cash in.
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Kafelnikov has now won at least one tournament in each of the last eight years.
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She won the preliminary qualifying tournament but, surprisingly, failed to gain her card in the all-important final event.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an international golf tournament
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Telford won the local five-a-side football tournament .
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There's a volleyball tournament at Sunset Park which begins today.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another one down, another step closer to the tournament .
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But a dry day would bring bigger crowds and add to the excitement of the vital third round of the tournament .
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But Sampras is 14-3 lifetime against Courier and he must believe the tournament is his to win.
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For example, he won the Phoenix Thunderbird tournament in 1950 and received $ 300 under the table.
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For just a moment there, tournament golf had taken its toll: Saavedra had lost the head.
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He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go.
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The tournament , played at Bangor Rugby Club, has become one of the highlights of the Ulster rugby season.
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The trouble is that the finest tournament starts appear in photographs to be hitting late.