(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ someone, you have a good opinion of their character or ideas.
I want him to ~ me as a career woman...
VERB: V n
2.
If you have ~ for someone, you have a good opinion of them.
I have tremendous ~ for Dean...
N-UNCOUNT: usu N for n
see also self-~
3.
If you ~ someone’s wishes, rights, or customs, you avoid doing things that they would dislike or regard as wrong.
Finally, trying to ~ her wishes, I said I’d leave.
VERB: V n
4.
If you show ~ for someone’s wishes, rights, or customs, you avoid doing anything they would dislike or regard as wrong.
They will campaign for the return of traditional lands and ~ for aboriginal rights and customs.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N for n
5.
If you ~ a law or moral principle, you agree not to break it.
It is about time tour operators ~ed the law and their own code of conduct.
VERB: V n
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Respect is also a noun.
...~ for the law and the rejection of the use of violence.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N for n
6.
You can say with ~ when you are politely disagreeing with someone or criticizing them.
With ~, I hardly think that’s the point.
PHRASE: PHR with cl politeness
7.
If you pay your ~s to someone, you go to see them or speak to them. You usually do this to be polite, and not necessarily because you want to do it. (FORMAL)
Carl had asked him to visit the hospital and to pay his ~s to Francis.
PHRASE: V inflects
8.
If you pay your last ~s to someone who has just died, you show your ~ or affection for them by coming to see their body or their grave.
The son had nothing to do with arranging the funeral, but came along to pay his last ~s.
PHRASE: V inflects
9.
You use expressions like in this ~ and in many ~s to indicate that what you are saying applies to the feature you have just mentioned or to many features of something.
The children are not unintelligent–in fact, they seem quite normal in this ~...
PHRASE: PHR with cl
10.
You use with ~ to to say what something relates to. In British English, you can also say in ~ of. (FORMAL)
Parents often have little choice with ~ to the way their child is medically treated...
PHRASE: PHR with cl
see also ~ed