noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
baggage car
baggage reclaim
baggage room
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
excess
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With hips at 44.5 inches and thighs at 25 inches, it was no wonder Rudolph had been complaining about excess baggage .
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When you had those you could drop, junk and forget the rest, which were only a burden or excess baggage .
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And psychically speaking, I can't help feeling they carry a little too much excess baggage .
old
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And now the old baggage was twisting everything; building something out of nothing.
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It was all wrong and back to front, but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage.
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There was truth in that, but not what the silly old baggage was thinking.
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Oh Christmas, let the old baggage be convinced!
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Not stay and wait to be thrown out after they'd ceased to be any use to the old baggage .
■ NOUN
car
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But Jimmy and the older children were locked in a windowless baggage car , and their excitement soon turned to tedium.
handler
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Before long, Giles was being employed as a mundane baggage handler , at Heathrow.
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General Workers Union, the union to which the baggage handlers belong, was unavailable for comment.
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Up behind the engine, two baggage handlers were loading a small pile of boxes.
■ VERB
carry
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Co-housing might seem to carry the ideological baggage of communes from decades past.
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Mr Hashimoto carries his share of baggage from the old political order.
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Because his sound-world is leaner, his playing sometimes seems more direct, carrying less historical baggage .
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Rick Lazio, 42, a moderate from Long Island who is largely unknown statewide but carries little obvious baggage .
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No money ever left the federal coffers without carrying a baggage of conditions, guidelines, and restrictions.
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He carries no emotional baggage , not on the surface anyway.
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But be assured, most people carry more writing-related baggage than a mail carrier does letters.
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It was unlikely that this highly efficient virus would carry any superfluous baggage .
check
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If I were going to transport priceless jewels in checked baggage , he thought, I would try to conceal them somehow.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bag and baggage
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What if Penry took one look at her and threw her out, bag and baggage?
excess baggage/luggage
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And psychically speaking, I can't help feeling they carry a little too much excess baggage.
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When you had those you could drop, junk and forget the rest, which were only a burden or excess baggage.
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With hips at 44.5 inches and thighs at 25 inches, it was no wonder Rudolph had been complaining about excess baggage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Being abused as a child, she brings a lot of baggage into the marriage.
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carry-on baggage
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After baggage and passport checks, passengers are individually quizzed by interrogators.
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But be assured, most people carry more writing-related baggage than a mail carrier does letters.
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David jumped down on to the platform and put up his hands for the baggage .